Megrahi's Doc Defends Release
The Guardian reports:
The doctor at the centre of the increasingly bitter international debate over the early release of the Lockerbie bomber has spoken to the Observer in his first interview since his expert evidence was used to justify the decision.
Talking ahead of Friday's first anniversary of the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Professor Karol Sikora strongly attacked the way his prognosis was portrayed. The leading cancer specialist said he would have made his evidence "more vague" if he could have foreseen that it was going to be interpreted as a fact that the convicted terrorist was going to die within three months of being released from Scotland's Greenock prison.
Sikora's claims are likely to reignite the row over the grounds on which Megrahi was released. As one of three doctors paid by the Libyan government to provide an expert opinion on Megrahi's life chances after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, Sikora has been attacked for his role in the affair.
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