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Parents of Lockerbie Victim Want Gadhafi to Stand Trial
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA couple who lost their son in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 are hoping that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will stand trial for the terrorist attack now that U.S. officials are taking a fresh look at the case. "It's about time that the United States stood up and realized that this is a serious thing against Gadhafi and we should have done this a long time ago," Kathleen Flynn said this morning on NBC's "Today" show. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday that the Obama administration may seek to prosecute Gadhafi after former Libyan officials said their boss ...
Report: Lockerbie Bomber 'Blackmailed' Gadhafi
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack, the former Libyan justice minister was quoted as saying Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as saying that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had warned Gadhafi that he would "reveal everything" about the 1988 bombing of an American flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, if he wasn't rescued from a Scottish prison. Abdel-Jalil told a Swedish tabloid Wednesday that he had proof Gadhafi had personally ordered the ...
Report: Ex-Minister Says Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing
By not in system - AOL NewsSTOCKHOLM (AP) - Libya's ex-justice minister on Wednesday was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. "I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an interview with Expressen, a Stockholm-based tabloid. AP Investigators inspect what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec 22, 1988. Swedish tabloid Expressen said Wednesday that Libya's former justice minister claims Moammar ...
WikiLeaks: UK Advised Libya on How to Free Lockerbie Bomber
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- The British government secretly advised Libya on how to secure the early release of Lockerbie plane bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, according to leaked diplomatic papers from the U.S. Embassy in London. The documents also suggest that Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne, played a behind-the-scenes role in obtaining the former Libyan intelligence officer's freedom. One diplomatic dispatch, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and published today in the British newspaper The Telegraph, states that within a week of Megrahi being diagnosed with "inoperable and ...
Cables: Libya Threatened UK Over Lockerbie Bomber
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 ...
Bride and Groom Met Via Pan Am 103 Bombing
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- Sometimes, out of the darkness comes a burst of light. A New Jersey couple who met at a memorial service honoring the lives of loved ones killed in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 will be wed a year after the man responsible for the attack was freed from prison and allowed to return to his homeland. Sonia Stratis, 28, and Chris Tedeschi, 33, held the rehearsal dinner for this weekend's wedding on Friday, a year to the day that convicted bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from a Scottish prison and returned to Libya. Al- Megrahi was released for ...
UK Warns Libya Against Celebrating Bomber's Release
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- Britain has warned Libya not to stage any celebrations to mark the anniversary today of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, saying to do so would be "tasteless, offensive and deeply insensitive." So far today, Libya appeared to be keeping quiet about the anniversary. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from prison in Scotland on Aug. 20, 2009, on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and doctors said he had only three months to live. Recent reports have said he could live as long as seven more years. His arrival at the Tripoli airport last year was ...
Al-Megrahi Controversy Ramps Up: A Guide to 'Compassionate Release'
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- Claiming he was at death's door, convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from prison last summer, eight years into his decades-long prison sentence, to die at home. But he's not dead yet -- and new information suggests that al-Megrahi, who lives back in his native Libya, might not meet the grounds for the "compassionate release" he was granted. What was al-Megrahi's apparent illness? The Lockerbie bomber, 58, is suffering from prostate cancer. He was diagnosed in 2008 and informed the judge responsible for his release that he had fewer than three months to ...
BP-Lockerbie Connection Raises Tension Between U.S. and U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON --The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people (including 190 Americans) over Lockerbie, Scotland, continues to be an open wound for many in the United States. The case is now proving to be a diplomatic wound between the United States and the United Kingdom as well. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee planned to hold hearings Thursday on the circumstances surrounding the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted by the Scottish government in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. But late Tuesday, the hearings were canceled when key Scottish and ...
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