Why am I not surprised.

[McMouse]

Confirms what I always thought about Blair and his cabinet.

http://www.telegraph....Lockerbie-bomber.html

[ludwig]

Yeah, no surprise really. Also, he's doing remarkably well for someone who only had a couple of months to live.

[rov1100]

Most of the cabinet were not let into the plans for the Iraq war. Now it seems other ministers are acting individually by not letting the cabinet know about the Lockerbie bombers release. They have always denied assisting any release so that must be so.

[rojash]

Well, I think everyone knows that Blair was (and is) a weasel, but if you read the whole article, it becomes pretty clear that, the Scots and Americans were playing the same game. So all the rhetoric that came afterwards from Salmon and the Yanks was just Castor and Pollux.

[youngmafbog]

Thought it was more Bottler than his Tonyness.

[modeller]

No surprise there but it was not just Labour . None of our governments Labour or Tory have shown much bottle with the exception of Maggie Thatcher and even she was surrounded by wets who would have given way when things got a bit tough.

[Backdrifter]

Surely the greatest disservices to the victims' families were the ludicrous conviction of al-Megrahi on such pathetic evidence, when it was obvious from the very start that the bombing was carried out by Iran as revenge for the Vincennes atrocity.

Oh, and modeller - as for the supposedly wonderful Thatcher: when early investigations pointed to Iran, Reagan told her to keep it quiet, and of course the so-called Iron Lady obediently rolled over for him. Incidentally, she refused to meet the victims' families, and in her self-aggrandising autobiography she doesn't even mention Lockerbie. The greatest terrorist atrocity on British soil, it happened during her premiership, and she can't even be bothered to meet the families or so much as mention it in her autobiography. What a repulsive woman.

If the very obvious Iran line had been pursued, maybe the victims' families would have received some proper justice, instead of the meaningless conviction they ended up with.