Yeah, I know. But.... Im not sure its even that simple. But to have this conversation, in this direction, it all begins to get a bit foil hat and black helicopter. I appreciate your point though, I wont contradict it.

Not really, as far as I recall it was pretty obvious he was going to get out on appeal and that would make a lot of people look silly for spending vast amounts of money on his prosecution and for ignoring who might have actually done the bombing.

The Scottish goverment took the least worst option - I imagine the UK government was delighted that they got to say it was the fault of the Scots to the US.