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One of the questions at least some of us are wondering about as President Obama returns from vacation is what he is going to do about Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. He is the Libyan agent who was convicted of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1982 only to be—in the face of American protests—freed by Scotland and returned home to celebrate with his countrymen. For our country to be so mocked by the British, not to mention the Libyans, is no small thing, and the question is whether Obama is going to let it pass.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, convicted in 2000 of planning the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, was released from prison in Scotland today, on the grounds that his terminal prostate cancer warrants clemency. Al-Megrahi is now en route to his native Libya, aboard a private jet belonging Muamar Qaddafi. “Some hurts can never ...