Americans whose relatives died in the Lockerbie disaster 21 years ago have jumped up and down, stamped their feet and cried copiously in front of enthusiastic US network reporters, to demonstrate their fury over the proposed transfer of cancer-ridden Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi from Scotland to his home country.
If the compassionate transfer proposal is approved by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny McAskill, by Ramadan the hastily-convicted bomber could be dying in the comfort of a stinking Libyan cell.
"How ah 'spected ta 'chieve clow-sha if they let that hayness niggra walk?" wailed one retraumatised Stateside relative, Roscoe P Coltrane. "Ah already hafta live with the turble knowledge that them terrist-lovin' Limeys done refused straight ta bring back tha death penalty for that raghead varmint, in spite o' thousands o' letters ah's writ to their godless fag Queen. Now this heah sonofabitch McAsshole carickta, he fair stickin' a knife inta the splattered guts o' mah deah departed kin, Cletus. Ah's callin' on that no-good so-called Pres'dent Obama to give thuh lib'ral pinko commie Scotches some good ol' US-style shock'n'awe - but whut can yuh 'speck? He a niggra faggot heeself."
British relatives of the victims who died in 1988 when the Pan-Am 747 was blown out of the sky have, in contrast, tended to reflect on the dubious conviction of al-Megrahi on the uncorroborated evidence of a discredited CIA informant, the failure of the security services to authorise any further investigation into his supposed terror network once he was sentenced, and the irony of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi - once widely suspected of ordering numerous attacks on US interests - suddenly becoming America's number one friend in the war on terror.
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