Jack Straw has just appeared on The World this Weekend emphatically denying that the decision include Abdelbaset al-Megrahi within the terms of the Libyan prisoner transfer agreement was made for trade considerations.
He says that it was made in order to improve British-Libyan relations generally.
I’m sure that was the case; and an easier trading relationship would, of course, be the surest sign of that general improvement.
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