Britain rejects talk of deal in Lockerbie release

Associated Press, Yahoo! News by DANICA KIRKA, Delvin Barrett | Aug. 22, 2009 (News Report)

LONDON – Britain rejected Saturday any suggestion it had struck a deal with Libya to free the Lockerbie bomber — questions that arose when Moammar Gadhafi publicly thanked British officials as he embraced the man convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 airline bombing.
Gadhafi praised Prime Minister Gordon Brown and members of the royal family by name for what he described as influencing the decision to let the terminally ill Abdel Baset ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S.
Topics: Terrorism, United Kingdom, Law Enforcement, Libya
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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug 22, 2009 - 5:18 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Aug 22, 2009 - 11:27 PM PDT

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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 22, 2009

The only error on the part of AP here was not including a link to the Prime Ministers letter to Libya, otherwise this is a very deep article which leaves many open questions of whether or not England exerted pressure on Scotland for the release.

I would like to hope that England played no part in the release through pressure on Scotland, but this and other articles for sure opens, wide, the door of wondering IF they did.

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