""And it doesn't alter the fact that the decision in Scotland (which Don chose casually and uncharacteristically to smear) was on compassionate grounds.""

I did not attempt, casually or otherwise, to smear the Scottish Government, or its position on releasing Megrahi.

The suspicion of an economic motive for this action was not MY invention, but an oft expressed opinion of a number of objectors.

I mentioned it only to make the point that I had SPECIFICALLY excluded it from my deliberations, in exactly the same way that I excluded his possible innocence, the latter not having alerted your radar to a possible slur against the Scottish judicial process.

Please refrain from interpreting my motives, until you can prove your abilities as a mind reader. Thus far you are well off base.

Don T.