smells like offensive smoke
News reports of Scotland’s release of Lockerbie bombing suspect Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi mentioned that the U.S. government had been pressuring Scotland not to release Megrahi, and was ‘dismayed’ at his release.
While some bombing victims’s families made public statements in support of the compassionate release.
Seems to me that certain parties in the U.S. government are scared of new evidence coming to light regarding the 1988 incident, which Megrahi’s release might facilitate.