Lockerbie’s cloak and dagger

Last month, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, said the case of the Libyan convicted by a Scottish court for the bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 “is over for good.” It would seem to be over for the convicted bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who is terminally ill with cancer and was returned to Libya in August on compassionate grounds after serving eight years in prison. But the Lockerbie issue, in which 270 people were murdered, is far from over. On an almost weekly basis, certain British publications have been running articles that something was amiss in both the decision to free Megrahi and the investigation into the bombing. The first major story was that oil giant BP signed major oil deals with Libya in the week following Megrahi’s release. It could be coincidence, but the timing is certainly fishy. The British government of course claimed