INCREDIBLE - AT 3:48 P.M. ET:  The Lockerbie bomber was released by Scotland last week on "compassionate" grounds, because he had, according to Scottish authorities, only three months to live. 

Now there are doubts about that.  From The Scotsman:

JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live.

Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish Government publish details of the doctor's expertise and qualifications, amid suggestions he or she may not have been a prostate cancer expert.

The parties have also raised questions over whether the doctor was employed by the Libyan government or Megrahi's legal team, which could have influenced the judgment.

And...

Mr MacAskill has said he based his decision to release Megrahi on the opinions of a range of experts.

But this is contradicted by a decisive report sent to Mr MacAskill on 10 August.

While it noted that four prostate cancer specialists – two oncologists and two urologists – were consulted, the summary said: "Whether or not prognosis is more or less than three months, no specialist would be willing to say."

The report suggests that only one doctor was willing to support the claim that Megrahi had just weeks to live.

COMMENT:  This is a major scandal, but must be pursued, either by political figures or by the British press.  The Obama administration seems to have dropped the subject after some perfunctory expressions of "outrage."  Let's not say anything that could be "misinterpreted" in the Muslim world.

By the way, it would not be above Libyan authorities to hold a mock funeral for this guy in two months, claim he's dead, then spirit him away somewhere.  Faking deaths, as we've seen regularly in Arab culture, is a routine technique.  The so-called "Jenin massacre," on the West Bank, was proved to be a fraud.  The incident that fueled the second Palestinian "intifada," in which a young boy was allegedly shot by Israeli authorities, while cradled in his father's arms, was also proved to be a fraud, in a French court of law.  During Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon, Arab "casualties" suddenly got up and walked away. 

Will Britain, in its greed for Libyan contracts, be the next victim of a hoax?

We'll follow this story.  Grieving American families, relatives of the victims of Pan Am 103, which went down in Lockerbie, are involved.

August 26, 2009