Will the Truth of Lockerbie Bombing Finally Emerge?

The death on Sunday of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to be convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, removes one running sore in relations between London and Washington. There was fury in the US when the former Libyan intelligence officer was released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government three years ago after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. There was outrage when Megrahi returned to Tripoli to a hero's welcome, escorted by Saif al-Islam, and renewed charges that it was all part of another dirty piece of British realpolitik with the Gaddafi regime, involving lucrative oil and gas deals. There is no room in this anger, for the thought that the Scottish legal process could act independently of London or that doctors genuinely thought that Megrahi had only months to live.