Gordon Brown's Porkies

The al-Megrahi release raises its head again in today's Telegraph.  It alleges a Foreign Office minister, Bill Rammall, sent Libyan officials detailed legal advice on how to use Mr al-Megrahi's cancer diagnosis to ensure he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

Several times Gordon Brown insisted the British government had no involvement whatsoever in the release of al-Megrahi, yet he must have been aware a Foreign Office minister was in direct contact with Libyan officials.

The Telegraph has published more than 480 American documents which were obtained by the Wikileaks website and passed to the newspaper.

The unionist Scotsman takes the line that the documents will 'heighten pressure on the SNP administration at Holyrood to reveal the full extent of discussions with the UK government about how and when Megrahi could be released'.  I see no evidence of any impropriety from the Scottish government in the few documents supplied online by the Telegraph.  What I do see, if the documents' facts are accurate, that Gordon Brown lied.

Surely now Dr Swire will be granted his independent inquiry.

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Another Death, 'Leaked' Information and Weak Politicians

A British soldier was killed in Afghanistan yesterday. According to the MoD he was from 36 Engineer Regiment and was serving with the Counter Improvised Explosion Device task force and was killed in a blast in the Sangin area of Helmand province.

The number of British military personnel killed in Afghanistan now stands at 325.

Also yesterday the Guardian published comprehensive details of the 'leaked' Afghanistan War Logs and further information is published today. From what I've read so far I'm in agreement with Dark Lochnagar (expletives used). EU Referendum maintains the Wikileaks memos were stolen but somehow I can't accept that, although I have to concur that if the War Logs make the lives of politicians that little bit harder, that is a good thing.

To my mind the 'leaked' memos have found their way into the public domain to be the catalyst for Obama to change strategy once again and we here in the UK will have to wait for his decision because we do not have even one politician strong enough to stand up and shout 'enough'.

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