Did Tony Blair Help Release The Lockerbie Bomber?

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The Conservative Prime Minister Mr Cameron has accused former Labour ministers of not revealing the complete truth relating to the premature release of the Lockerbie bomber after seeing the report produced that stated that the Labour government had done "all it could" to see that he was freed.

With in a few weeks of the diagnosis of Megrahi with prostrate cancer members of the Libyan regime were meeting with some of Gordon Brown's most senior aides who were actively trying to engineer the release of the worst mass murderer ever known in the UK

The head of Labour's foreign and defence policy discussed the highly sensitive issue of arranging a compassionate release for Megrahi and a Foreign office minister promised to write offering formal advice just a mere week later.

It seems that in a short period of just a couple of weeks in September and October 2008 that British government policy changed some what.

Megrahi's premature release had now become a very burning issue of British foreign policy.

The conclusion of Sir Gus O'Donnel the UK's most senior civil servant has concluded that a policy was progressively developed that Her Majesty's Labour Government should do all it could, while respecting devolved competencies, to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish Government.

Initially the focus of Libya was to focus on agreeing a Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) between Great Britain and Libya. The intention of which could possibly have allowed Megrahi to serve out the balance of his sentence in Libya not in Scotland.

I have no doubt that ex Prime Minister Brown thought, at the time, that he was a master diplomat but this has now exploded in his face. Clearly he knew what was the game plan. The Coalition PM David Cameron told the House of Commons " Frankly this tells us something that was not made clear at the time".

He made it extremely clear that it went much deeper than the previous public accounts of both Gordon Brown and the former Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

David Cameron went on to say "We weren't told about facilitating an appeal about facilitating contact or game plan,"

One paper from the Foreign and Commonwealth office in 2009 explains that there was a need to "actively but discreetly to ensure that Megrahi is transferred back to Libya. This seems to undermine greatly the stated position of the ex Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown at that time and subsequently.

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