Well there's no doubt that Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi should never have been released on any grounds, terminal cancer notwithstanding, if he actually did, single-handledly or otherwise, kill 270 people on Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland back in 1988. But one of the reasons he has been freed, on 'compassionate' grounds (not something our justice system is famous for) is that few people, apart from the families of many of the US victims and, it would appear, the American government, think he actually did do it. Not least because parking a bomb on a plane in Malta in the belief it will make its way to a flight between Frankfurt and New York (with a stopover at Heathrow) is hardly the calculation of a hardened terrorist. But neither the Scottish or British governments can say this. Neither can the Americans who still have questions to answer about the dozens of Americans who evacuated a hard-to-get Christmas flight back home for reasons which are, as yet, unexplained. And. of course, the Brits are desperately brown-nosing the Libyans, keen to follow in Tony Blair's path of seeking better relations with the mad colonel to get their mitts on his oil assets. Once again, interestingly, it's foreign secretary David Miliband who's left twisting in the wind. He unwisely took on John Humphries on Today this morning - saying it wasn't us, guv, it was those dreadful devolved Scots wot did it - and completely failing to come clean on all the missing government documents relating to Lockerbie that are withheld on the grounds of 'national security'. Barack Obama has also stamped his feet about the whole affair, although he knows that the CIA know what actually happened at Lockerbie. And they aren't telling. As for Megrahi, he's had a hero's welcome home although the Libyan government has since evidently told the population to cool it. And they're threatened with the dire prospect of British trade ambassador Prince Andrew, 'Air Miles Andy', pulling out of a planned September visit. That'll learn 'em.