According to the Australian the US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than to jail him in Libya.

If it’s true and Obama really did call say that it was better for the Bomber to be released that to be in a prison it make his statement that all American’s were surprised, disappointed and angry. Of course he may have excluded his administration out of that statement as typically when all American’s are angry it’s something that the administration has done to cause it.