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Lockerbie Bomber's Release Was Allowed on 'False Prognosis,' U.S. Senators Say
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySixteen months ago, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, was given three months to live. The Scottish government, over U.S. protests, released him from prison on "compassionate grounds" because of his supposedly advanced prostate cancer and allowed him to return to Libya to die. He's still alive. In a scathing new report, four U.S. senators conclude al-Megrahi was let go as a result of a "flawed prognosis" that Scottish officials went along with at a time when the United Kingdom feared Libya would wage "commercial warfare" and thwart an ...
Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder Object to Possible Release of Lockerbie Bomber
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder each called Scotland's justice minister on Thursday to object to the release of the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Politics Daily has learned. This behind-the-scenes diplomacy comes as American relatives of the victims express concern over how hard the Obama administration is pressing the case that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi remain in prison and not return to Libya.He received a 27-year sentence in 2001 and had two separate pleas pending: one calling for release on compassionate grounds ...
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