Interesting that you got such a different impression from a Scottish paper than I got being on the English/Scottish border. I'm not sure what to make of that other than neither of us got a huge sample of Scottish people. I don't think there's been any major polls on the issue.

Al-Megrahi hasn't expressed remorse because he claims he's innocent. He was about to appeal his prison sentence but gave up on the appeal since it turned out he was going to be released anyway. I think this is one of those news items where we'll never hear the full story.

I was recently in Edinburgh, Scotland and was attending the Military Tattoo on Monday night, August 17th. The announcer/emcee was chatting up the thousands of people in stands before the show started. He was asking for folks (from certain areas of the world) to clap when he announced their home country. He called out many of the larger countries' names and the crowd from those countries responded with clapping, yelling, whistling and the sort. When he called out United States, the BOOs were louder than the clapping, whistling and so on. No other country was boo'd. It was quite disappointing to hear that. I PERSONALLY never met with any negativity while there for 2 1/2 weeks but it ended a great trip on a bit of a sour note...