Lockerbie Bomber's Doctor Who Diagnosed His Cancer Is Now Back-Tracking On His Medical Opinion

Al-Megrahi in his hospital room in Tripoli following his release from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Photograph: Reuters

Al-Megrahi's Doctor: 'I Just Provided An Opinion. Someone Else Let Him Go Free' -- The Guardian

Specialist Karol Sikora says he would have been 'more vague' over the Libyan's health if he had known his opinion would have been treated as fact

The doctor at the centre of the increasingly bitter international debate over the early release of the Lockerbie bomber has spoken to the Observer in his first interview since his expert evidence was used to justify the decision.

Talking ahead of Friday's first anniversary of the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Professor Karol Sikora strongly attacked the way his prognosis was portrayed. The leading cancer specialist said he would have made his evidence "more vague" if he could have foreseen that it was going to be interpreted as a fact that the convicted terrorist was going to die within three months of being released from Scotland's Greenock prison.

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My Comment: My blood is now boiling on what I am reading. The Scottish/British Government at the time either mislead the public on why they released the Lockerbie bomber, or they are so incompetent that charges of stupidity should be leveled at them and they should be made to personally pay for the suffering and harm that they have caused.

The mess and scandal on the release of the Lockerbie Bomber just got even more messier and scandalous.

Update: This is not going to help.