FOXNews.com - White House Reportedly Preferred Scotland to Libya for Released Lockerbie Bomber
Fox news is actually reporting it right: "The Obama administration told Scottish officials last August that, although it opposed any release of the Lockerbie bomber, it would rather see him released in Scotland than transferred to a Libyan prison, according to a secret memo obtained by The Sunday Times in London." And the last statement of the release: "According to Britain's Daily Telegraph, Salmond on Sunday said the United States did not want al-Megrahi released."
So the Obama and the his administration never wanted him release and the title of this thread is misleading. end of story