"Where there's smoke, there's fire," said Douglas A. McIntyre in 24/7 Wall St. So it should come as no surprise that The Times of London says the British government arranged for Scotland to release terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi to secure a big oil deal for BP. Profits often outweigh ethics, but "the heinousness of the Lockerbie bombing gives the apparent 'trade' a special level of abhorrence."
The Scots insist they released the bomber for humanitarian reasons, said Ed Morrissey in Hot Air, and the British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown says it had nothing to do with the decision. But the Times of London "continues to rip to shreds the official explanations from Edinburgh and London." Brown's government should "resign in disgrace" to save Parliament the trouble of holding a vote of no confidence, "not just for the grubby commercial bargain but for their contemptuous lies afterward."
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