TheEye added a McDoom “50 Days To Save The World” countdown on this blog, but it would have been just as relevant (if slightly more ghoulish) to have a countdown to when the Lockerbie Bomber was booked to head downwards to his enternal punishment in waiting. However both options turned out to be equal tosh. From Ananova and neatly timed for the end of that countdown, the Tories are stirring:

The Scottish Government is facing demands to release all records on the Lockerbie bomber, 90 days after he was freed from jail on compassionate grounds.

Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was freed from Greenock prison on August 20 and flown home to Tripoli, Libya. He was serving life for the 1988 Pan Am jumbo bombing which claimed 270 lives, and his early release was greeted with anger by US relatives of those killed.

Announcing his decision on August 20, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said of the criteria for compassionate early release: “There are no fixed time limits but life expectancy of less than three months may be considered an appropriate period.”

Scottish Tory justice spokesman Bill Aitken said: “Alex Salmond’s SNP refused to publish independent medical advice which they used to free the Lockerbie bomber. Mr Megrahi lost all rights to patient confidentiality when he became Britain’s worst mass murderer. Scotland is still sickened by the sight of his hero’s return to Tripoli. He is supposed to be regularly monitored in Libya to ensure he complies with the terms of his freedom licence.

“The Scottish Government must ensure full details are published, including backdated reports and all on-going medical assessments.”

Right, so this terrorist was released by a Scottish politician desperate to show that he’s in a real “Government” and Gordon “Nothing to do with me Guv” McDoom who wanted the oil deal. All of the tomfoolery was aided and abetted by an anonymous ‘specialist’ who could well have been TheEye’s doctor for all we know. Heaven knows, scribbling a prescription on the back of a beermat whilst TheEye gets the round in would be pretty much par for the course there.
 
Admittedly the man isn’t exactly dancing, drinking and shagging his way around the whorehouses of Tripoli at the moment but he’s avoided the electric chair first, a jail cell second and a heated pitchfork third so far. As far as the families of the victims of Lockerbie are concerned, the main thing he’s avoided is justice. And it’s a fair question to ask why.