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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 ...
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 ...
Latest in Accused and Convicted Murderer News
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Jan. 6) – There's a lot of news today in the world of accused and convicted murderers, so we rounded it all up. Johnny L. Wicks' Past Homicide First, the man who killed a federal court officer and wounded a U.S. marshal in Las Vegas on Monday had been convicted of killing his own brother in Memphis in 1976, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wicks, 66, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years for the slaying but was paroled in 1981. Aside from the murder, Wicks' rap sheet included a conviction for spousal abuse, an accusation of assault to commit rape and robbery charges. On Monday, Wicks set ...
Gaddafi Not Invited to Obama UN Reception
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host their first international reception for world leaders later this month, in connection with the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Politics Daily has learned that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has not been invited because of the hero's welcome Gaddafi gave the convicted Pan Am Lockerbie bomber when he returned home to Libya after being released from a Scottish prison. ...
Will Libyan Lockerbie Pan Am Bomber Be Dead in Three Months?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe naïve Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, defending his decision to free the only person convicted in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, said this week that an Aug. 10 diagnosis giving Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi just three months to live triggered his release. "As I said, Mr. Al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power," he told an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament on Monday. "It is one that no court, in any jurisdiction, in any land, could revoke or overrule. It is terminal, final and irrevocable. He is going to die." ...
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