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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 ...
British Government Accused of Appeasing Gadhafi
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- Britain's close relationship with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has come under attack from U.S. officials, human rights campaigners and victims of the Lockerbie bombing after the North African dictator ordered a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters. Louis Susman, the U.S. ambassador in London, condemned the British government's efforts to reintegrate Gadhafi into the international diplomatic community. "I would suggest that to deal with [Gadhafi is] to give him greater stature, greater ability on the world front to look like he is a good citizen is a mistake," he told the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suspect in UK Plots Is Linked to Cargo Bomb Terrorists
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 3) -- A member of the terrorist group blamed for last week's failed cargo bomb plot was arrested in England earlier this year on suspicion of planning attacks in Britain, a top official revealed today. Although the arrest of that suspect -- identified by the Daily Mail as a former British Airways computer expert -- was announced in February, his links with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, hadn't previously been made public. "An AQAP associate was arrested here earlier this year," U.K. Home Secretary Teresa May said in a speech to the London-based Royal United Services ...
BP's Tony Hayward Refuses to Testify on Lockerbie Bomber
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 26) -- Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward has refused a request by U.S. senators to testify next month about BP's role in the release of the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. In a letter this week signed by Hayward and obtained by The Associated Press, Hayward told Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., that he is focused on ensuring a "smooth and successful leadership change" at the company and will be unable to testify. The committee is looking into whether the British-based oil company had sought Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's release to help get a $900 ...
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 ...
Lockerbie Families Raise New Questions Over Bomber
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Aug. 15) -- Activists and relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing raised new questions Sunday about the medical advice that led to the release on compassionate grounds of the only man ever convicted for the deaths. Doctors claimed Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had only three months to live when he was freed from a Scottish jail last August and allowed to return home to Libya. But one year later, Al-Megrahi, who is being treated for prostate cancer, is still alive. Prof. Karol Sikora, one of the experts who assessed al-Megrahi's health for Libyan authorities, was quoted by ...
British PM David Cameron, Obama Talk BP, Lockerbie Bomber and Beer
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, recently elected British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for his first White House tete-a-tete with President Barack Obama. While such potentially divisive topics as the BP oil spill and the Lockerbie bomber were on tap, the two leaders spent much of their joint press conference reaffirming the "special relationship" between their respective countries. Obama said the two countries saw "eye to eye on virtually every issue" while Cameron referred to it not just as a "special relationship" but an "essential one." Showing a keen understanding that ...
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