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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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lockerbie Bomber's Release on Obama-Cameron Meeting Agenda
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAhead of Tuesday's scheduled meeting between President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, the White House confirmed that the president would take up the issue of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al Megrahi of Libya, whose recent release from prison came under criticism. Last Thursday, BP confirmed that it lobbied the British government to expedite the release of Libyan prisoners in order to finalize a drilling agreement with Libya, but the company denied that it tried to intervene in the case of al Megrahi, convicted for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed ...
Another Reason to Hate BP: Lobbying for Lockerbie Bomber
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsANALYSIS WASHINGTON (July 15) -- BP had already called in the heavy artillery to help repair its image after April's oil rig explosion in the gulf. But as the oil still gushes nearly three months later, even a nuclear bomb is unlikely to obliterate the PR fallout over its confirmation that it lobbied the British government over a prisoner release deal that freed the Lockerbie bomber. The oil giant made the admission hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, prompted by a letter from four senators demanding an investigation, said she would look into BP's connection with the ...
Doctor: Lockerbie Bomber Could Live Another 10 Years
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 5) -- A British cancer specialist who predicted that the Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing would die within three months of his release from jail now says that the man could survive for another decade. The Scottish government released Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi from jail on compassionate grounds last August, after being told by doctors that his prostate cancer was terminal. That decision angered the U.S. and many relatives of those killed in the attack, who argued Megrahi should end his days in prison. Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder for ...
State-Sponsored Assassins Tend to Get Away
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(March 6) -- Details continue to trickle out about the assassination in January of Hamas military leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. And while Israel has not confirmed or denied involvement, everyone -- even Israel's friends -- suspects its intelligence service, Mossad, masterminded and carried out the hit. The Mossad has conducted plenty of assassinations in the past. And so, too, have other countries. The only thing surprising about the latest hit is how quickly the details of the operation became public -- thanks to Dubai's release of the surveillance footage and (forged) passport ...
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