Made me wonder if the writer has an axe to grind.

I couldn't see the writer's opinions in evidence, Sinsull. The quotes speak for themselves, unless you think they've been manipulated. Do you?

Many informed voices, including Scotland's most senior law academic, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, the UN's observer at the trial and many British relatives of victims (who have followed the case more diligently than some of their US counterparts) believe Megrahi's guilt is highly questionable, or in some cases are convinced of his innocence. If they were proved right, it would put in question some of the behaviour of the Scottish prosecution service and the CIA. The "my country right or wrong" attitude that still seems to prevail in some US circles may partly explain the reluctance to dig deeper.

Paco Rabanne may like to know that one of Britain's most senior judges, Lord Denning, shared his mentality. Shortly before an appeal court overturned the convictions of the Birmingham Six (for crimes to which an IRA gang had long-since confessed) he regretted that the six had not been hanged, as that would have put paid to any campaign for their release. (He himself had disallowed an earlier appeal on the ground that it would have meant police officers had lied - a prospect he was not prepared to contemplate.)