An Inquiry into Lockerbie Bomber's Release

To have one conspiracy theory in full flow is a misfortune. To have two going at the same time is surely absurd. And yet, for anyone attempting to make sense of the case of the Libyan bomber, there is a further troubling problem.

In order to dismiss both conspiracies out of hand, you have to believe in a quite remarkable coincidence: that, separately, with no conferring and with no collusion, the SNP administration in Scotland succeeded in reaching the very goal that the British Government had been so keen to achieve — to have Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi returned to Libya, thus removing the one obstacle that lay between the UK and a lucrative oil and trade deal.