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By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Dec. 8) -- Libya threatened "harsh" and "immediate" consequences for U.K. commercial interests and British diplomats if Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi died in prison, according to a new batch of U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. The papers shed new light on the August 2009 release of al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison, a move that strained relations between Britain and Washington. Scotland's autonomous government has insisted that it allowed al-Megrahi to return to Libya on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He is still ...
Senators Urge Continued Lockup for Pan Am Lockerbie Bomber
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySeven U.S. senators on Monday signed a letter imploring Scotland's justice minister not to release the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, PoliticsDaily.com has learned.The senators' letter underscores calls made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder to Scotland's Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill last week asking him to keep Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi in prison and not let him return to Libya. (My PoliticsDaily.com scoop about Clinton and Holder here.) ...
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