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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 ...
Russian Spy Case: What's a Traded Prisoner Worth?
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 7) -- They've entertained us with their sultry photos, computer complaints and gardening skills. But later this week, we might have to wave farewell to our favorite suburban spy ring. According to reports, some or all of the 10 Russian agents seized in the U.S. are about to be traded for Igor Sutyagin, a nuclear weapons expert jailed by Moscow in 2004 for passing secrets to American agents. Sutyagin's brother Dmitry today said to the BBC that Russian officials had told him he would be released and sent to Britain as part of a spy swap. His mother, meanwhile, told the Wall Street Journal ...
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