[This is the headline over a report by David Maddox in The Scotsman. The following are the first two paragraphs.]
A Holyrood committee is to hold a full inquiry into the way the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber was made.
It is understood that the planned inquiry, by the justice committee, will focus on concerns that the decision to send Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi back to Libya was based on investment and trade concerns rather than legal and health grounds. This comes after questions were asked by the Conservatives about justice secretary Kenny MacAskill's brother Allan, who is an energy industry executive with the firm SeaEnergy Renewables, which has ties to Libya.
[Note by RB: No other newspaper -- not even The Wall Street Journal which broke the "story" -- has suggested that the current employer of Kenny MacAskill's brother Allan has links with Libya. Indeed, The Press and Journal, a newspaper that has good sources within the energy industry, specifically states that Ramco (the owner of SeaEnergy, a company concerned exclusively with offshore renewable energy) has no known links with Libya.
What therefore is the source of David Maddox's bald assertion that SeaEnergy Renewables "has ties to Libya"? Did he simply make it up? Does he stand by it? If not, will he and his newspaper publish a correction and an apology? I think we should be told.]
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