Anoth er problem the British government needs to address is why it wanted Megrahi transferred to Libya anyway, not as a free man but as a prisoner who could continue his sentence there under an exchange agreement.
We know the importance the British government attached to this prisoner agreement, because Justice Secretary Jack Straw told a House of Commons committee in March: “Both the foreign secretary and I believe, in the interests of our judicial and wider bilateral relations with Libya, it is important to ratify [the agreement].”
The agreement was ratified in April without the committee having time to issue its own report and the chairman said it had been rushed through to pave the way for Megrahi’s transfer.
British wishes have been confirmed in a letter that a Foreign Office minister, Ivan Lewis, wrote to the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.
Mr Lewis was clarifying that there was no legal impediment to the use of the prisoner transfer agreement in the Megrahi case.
“I hope on this basis you will now feel able to consider the Libyan application in accordance with the provisions of the prisoner transfer agreement,” he said.

Correspondents say this is the government’s biggest attempt so far to change Cuban smoking habits.
The ban extends to theatres, buses, taxis, trains, schools, food preparation areas and sports arenas.
Smoking will be restricted in restaurants, but it is not clear whether any restrictions will apply in bars.
Tobacco products, the sale of which is currently unrestricted, will be banned for children under 16. Shops closer than 100m to schools will be unable to sell the products.
Cigarette vending machines are also apparently set to become obsolete.
Partial or total smoking bans are already in force in several European countries, in the US state of California and in New York city. Several other countries are considering bans.

Darwin moved to Down House in 1842 following his epic round-the-world trip in the 1830s, which included a visit to the Galapagos islands.
The property, now managed by English Heritage, was where Darwin completed his famous work The Origin of Species and a number of follow-up studies.
The Origin of Species, which outlines Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, is now recognised as one of the most influential books of all time and one which transformed scientific and wider public thinking about natural life and humans’ place in the natural world.
While World Heritage Sites are usually associated with cultural landmarks like Stonehenge, Ms Jowell said it was also essential to acknowledge scientific discovery.
The World Heritage Centre in Paris will consider the nomination and announce its decision in the summer of 2007.

Waving a stick in the air in front of a supportive crowd of thousands, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir punched the air to roars of support.
He looked little like a man on his first full day as an international fugitive – following an arrest warrant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Some 10,000 protesters crammed themselves into central Khartoum in support of the president, following the issuing on Wednesday of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.
Instead Mr Bashir scoffed at the warrant, telling the mass rally in the packed downtown district of Khartoum that Western leaders were the real criminals.
The true criminals are the leaders of the United States and Europe,” he told the crowds to loud cheers.
He in turn accused the United States of genocide against the Native American Indians, as well as in Vietnam and in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
“One day we will take them to justice,” he added.
It was not clear if the president was joking, but the crowd loved it.
According to the United Nations, some 300,000 have died in Darfur since the conflict erupted in 2003 and more than two million have been displaced – figures strongly rejected by Khartoum.

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