Showing posts with label Lockerbie Bombing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lockerbie Bombing. Show all posts
A New Break In The Lockerbie Bombing?
New York Times: 2 Lockerbie Bombing Suspects, Libyans, Sought by U.S. and Scotland
LONDON — Scottish and American prosecutors are asking the Libyan government for help tracking down two suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the terrorist attack that brought down Pan Am Flight 103, killing 270 people.
“The lord advocate and the U.S. attorney general have recently agreed that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and U.S. investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie,” a spokesman for Frank Mulholland, the lord advocate, or top prosecutor, for Scotland said in a statement on Thursday.
WNU Editor: 27 years later and still looking for justice.
More News On The Lockerbie Bombing
U.S., Scottish investigators have two new suspects in Lockerbie bombing -- Reuters
Two Libyans identified as Lockerbie bombing suspects, Scotland, U.S. say -- CNN
Scottish prosecutors: 2 Libyans are Lockerbie bomb suspects -- AP
U.S., Scottish authorities pursue two new suspects in Pan Am 103 bombing -- USA Today
Two new Libyan suspects identified in Lockerbie bombing, 27 years later -- FOX News
Two New Lockerbie Bombing Suspects From Libya Sought -- WSJ
Scots police to question Lockerbie ‘most wanted’ -- Express
Lockerbie Bombing Case To Be Re-Investigated?
The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, died last year after returning to Libya. Photograph: Reuters TV
UK Police Investigating Lockerbie Cleared To Visit Libya For The First Time, Cameron Reveals During Latest Leg Of African Tour
* Prime Minister greeted by locals during walkabout in Martyr's Square
* Deal secured for officers from Dumfries and Galloway investigating 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to travel to Tripoli for the first time
* Mr Cameron promises to bolster police and army in the country amid concerns about security situation
* British special forces to train troops across Africa to deal with Al Qaeda
British detectives investigating the Lockerbie bombing are to travel to Libya for the first time.
Under a deal sealed by David Cameron on his surprise visit to Tripoli yesterday, officers from the Dumfries and Galloway force in Scotland will travel to the Libyan capital next month.
The team of detectives hope to track down the masterminds behind Britain’s worst ever terrorist atrocity, in which 270 people died in 1988 after the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.
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More News On British Detectives Being Permitted To Investigate Possible Leads On The Lockerbie Bombing
British police to travel to Libya to investigate Lockerbie bombing -- The Guardian
Lockerbie Police Will Visit Libya for First Time -- Bloomberg
Lockerbie bombing: Scottish police to visit Libya -- BBC
Lockerbie: Scottish police to visit Libya -- Scotsman
Lockerbie bombing: British detectives to fly to Libya for the first time -- The Telegraph
A New Lockerbie Investigation?
Maltese Courts Gather Fresh Lockerbie Evidence -- Times of Malta
‘Scotland’s letter asked for judicial assistance’.
The Maltese courts have been asked to gather fresh evidence connected to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, The Times has learnt.
Hearings took place behind closed doors last week before Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit. Several Maltese witnesses were called to testify.
The court appears to be reviewing evidence connected to travel logistics but no further information could be obtained from Maltese or Scottish sources.
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More News On A New Lockerbie Bombing
Secret Lockerbie court held in Malta, newspaper claims -- BBC
Lockerbie Bombing: Malta 'Holding Secret Investigation In Closed Court Hearings', Paper Claims -- Huffington Post
Lockerbie bombing: Hush-hush probe under way in Malta -- The Scotsman
Maltese launch new probe into Lockerbie bombing -- Daily Caller
Why Our Enemies Laugh At Us
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, left, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland and released from prison in 2009, sits in a wheelchair at a pro-government rally in Tripoli last week in this image from Libyan state television. (Reuters / August 1, 2011)For A Dead Guy, The Bomber Looks Good -- Chicago Tribune
Halfway up a wee hill, the fuselage had landed in the backyards of Rosebank Crescent. Bob Edgar … counted 18 bodies in his own backyard, many still in their seats. But the detail that will forever remain in his mind is how most of the passengers had crossed their fingers — and died that way.
Newsweek reconstruction of the 1988 crash of Pan American Flight 103.
"Four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 (people) lost a parent, seven lost both parents."
Scottish prosecutor Colin Boyd at the 2001 trial of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
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My Comment: I hate to admit, but my blood boils every-time I read a story about this mass murderer.
With the Defection Of Musa Kusa, Will We Now Know The Story Of The Lockerbie Bombing
'Put Him On Trial': U.S. Lockerbie Families Urge 'Soft Touch' Britain To Bring Gaddafi Defector To Justice -- Daily Mail
* Musa Kusa, the brains behind Lockerbie bombing, defects to UK
* Calls for Kusa to face court for 'war crimes'
* Lockerbie relative hails a 'great day' in search for truth of atrocity
Relatives of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing today demanded the British government bring to justice the former Libyan foreign minister after he defected to the UK.
Musa Kusa is said to have been the brains behind the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am flight - which killed 270 people - and was today being questioned in a 'secure location' in the UK after defecting following pressure from British intelligence.
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Update: Dilemma over defector's 'electrifying' Lockerbie information -- The Telegraph
My Comment: I have trouble seeing someone like Musa Kusa defecting without coming to some agreement with Britain on how he should be treated. I suspect that there is more to this story than what is being publicized, and we will not know about it until later (much later).
President Obama Wants The Lockerbie Bomber Siezed As A Condition Of Support For The Rebels In Libya If They Succeed In Toppling Gaddafi
Barack Obama Orders Lockerbie Bomber al-Megrahi Be Seized -- Mirror
Barack Obama will demand the Lockerbie bomber as the price of supporting a new government in Libya.
The US President says the deportation of freed Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi is a condition of him backing the rebels if they win power.
Mr Obama wants Megrahi to be tried in the States for putting a bomb on the New York-bound jet that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, a crime for which he was convicted by a Scottish court
Cancer-stricken Megrahi has disappeared in Libya where he has been living after being released from jail because he supposedly had only months to live,
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My Comment: A little late to the dance .... but I doubt that Megrahi will be alive when this happens (i.e. if Gaddafi falls).
More Details On The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber Are Now Being Published
An investigation by Vanity Fair claims the Lockerbie bomber was going to start chemotherapy in a Scottish prison when he was released Photo: Glasgow SyndicationThe Lockerbie Deal -- Vanity Fair
In 2009 the convicted Lockerbie bomber was sent home to Libya from a Scottish prison on grounds of “compassionate release”—he had only three months to live, authorities said. A year and a half later the man is still alive—and a Vanity Fair investigation reveals new details about the business interests and private dealings that lay behind the prisoner’s release. At the heart of the matter: the cozy and “profitable relationships” between the Blair government and Qaddafi’s Libya.
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More News On The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber
Lockerbie bomber: drugs 'could have given Megrahi 19 more months' -- The Telegraph
‘Drugs would have kept bomber alive in Scottish prison’ -- Express.co.uk
New claim on Megrahi 'balderdash' says First Minister -- Scotsman
Bomber's freedom 'trickery' -- The Sun
Lockerbie bomber petition kept open -- Press Association
Lockerbie bomber inquiry rejected -- Scotsman
10,000 letters over Lockerbie move -- Press Association
My Comment: Everyday that convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi is alive .... it is another black day for Britain/Scotland.
Britain Officials Will Not Meet With U.S. Lockerbie Investigators
Photo: Scottish First Minister has told American senators he isdrawing a line under correspondence with them.
British Officials Won't Meet With US Lockerbie Investigators Over Release Of Abdelbasset Al-Megrahi -- New York Daily News
So much for British hospitality.
The UK government denied a request from an American Senate committee to meet this week as part of the investigation into the release of the Lockerbie bomber, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, convicted in 2003 of plotting the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town, was released to his native Libya in Aug. 2009 after a Scottish doctor testified that he had three months to live.
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More News On British Officials Refusing To Meet With Lockerbie Investigators
UK officials won't meet US Lockerbie investigators -- AP
Alex Salmond accuses US Lockerbie bomber inquiry of lacking credibility -- The Telegraph
Salmond tells US: line drawn on Megrahi -- Herald Scotland
Hague blocks access to Megrahi officials -- Financial Times
MSP steps up fight for Megrahi’s records -- Press And Journal
London puts up road block in Megrahi probe -- UPI
The Lockerbie Bomber and Scotland's Disgrace -- Wall Street Journal opinion
My Comment: I mentioned a few months ago that if Scotland refuses to release the Lockerbie's medical files, that will be the smoking gun that the decision to release the Libyan bomber was motivated more by politics and relations with Libya, than over the Locker Bomber's state of health. No surprise .... these medical reports are not going to be released.
Is the U.S. Government Stupid? (I Know It Is A Rhetorical Question)
Obama Administration Now Asking Libya To Return Lockerbie Bomber To Prison In Scotland -- Rick Moran, American Thinker
Are they kidding? Like, Qaddaffi is going to break down and ship the terrorist Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi - released from a Scottish prison last year because he supposedly had less than 6 months to live - back to that same prison after making him a national hero?
What planet are these people from? Do they really think Kooky Qaddaffi is going to pull their political chestnuts out of the fire after they stupidly released Megrahi in the first place?
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My Comment: When mass murderers like the convicted Lockerbie bomber are freed .... it completely undermines the public's trust and confidence in the state.
A year later, calls from the U.S. State Department to have the Lockerbie Bomber returned to prison .... now this only makes them look even more foolish and inept .... sprinkled with a heavy dose of stupidity.
The Lockerbie Bomber Case Gets Messier With Each Passing Day
Lockerbie Bomber: US Calls For Megrahi To Return To Scottish Jail -- The Guardian
Hillary Clinton implies Megrahi's release from jail a year ago denied justice to Lockerbie victims
The US has called for the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to be returned to a Scottish jail.
The Obama administration said it had advised Libyan officials of its view that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi should not be free.
On the first anniversary of Megrahi's early release from prison yesterday, Barack Obama's counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, condemned the Scottish government's decision to release the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing as "unfortunate and inappropriate".
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More News On The Lockerbie Bomber
Lockerbie bombing: US calls for Megrahi to be returned to jail -- The Telegraph
US claims 'cloud of suspicion' hangs over Lockerbie bomber release -- The Telegraph
'Cloud of suspicion' over Lockerbie bomber release -- BBC
US calls for Lockerbie bomber to return to jail -- BBC
Obama seeks reimprisonment for Lockerbie bomber -- AP
US renews attack over Lockerbie bomber's release -- ABC News (Australia)
US turns up the heat over Megrahi as Scots turn against release decision -- The Scotsman
Lockerbie bombing 'should be investigated by independent inquiry' -- The Guardian
Year Later, Lockerbie Bomber Still Alive -- FOX News
Lockerbie bomber in 'good shape' for cancer patient -- AFP
Planned Libyan Celebrations Of The Lockerbie Bomber's Release One Year Ago Draws Rebuke
Britain To Libya: Don't Celebrate Lockerbie Bomber's Release -- The Daily Mail
Libya leader Muammar Qaddafi may throw a party for convicted Lockerbie murderer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, released one year ago today. Britain is warning against such action.
Great Britain has warned Libya not to celebrate the anniversary of the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
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More News On The Lockerbie Bomber's Libyan Celebration
Libya keeps quiet one year after Lockerbie release -- Reuters
Britain tells Libya not to celebrate Lockerbie bomber anniversary -- CNN
Libya urged to show restraint on Lockerbie -- Financial Times
UK warns against honouring Megrahi -- Al Jazeera
UK warns Libya over Lockerbie bomber anniversary -- AP
Five Questions About the Lockerbie Bomber's Release -- Time Magazine
FACTBOX-Lockerbie bomber Megrahi still alive - one year on -- Reuters
Lockerbie bomber: timeline of key dates -- The Telegraph
Libya's Gaddafi To Give The Lockerbie Bomber A Party To Celebrate The First Anniversary Of His Release
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in his hospital room in Tripoli following his release from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Photograph: ReutersGaddafi Plans Party For Lockerbie Bomber -- Montreal Gazette/Daily Telegraph
Colonel Gaddafi's son has arranged for 500 youths from around the world to fly to Tripoli to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has spent millions of pounds bringing hundreds of foreign teenagers to Tripoli for an event that was supposed to mark the UN Year of the Youth.
But those attending the gathering will find themselves at the centre of national celebrations commemorating the anniversary of Megrahi's triumphant return home.
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Update: Lockerbie bomber fuels anger just by staying alive -- Yahoo News/AP
Update #2: Fury over Gaddafi's anniversary honour for Lockerbie bomber -- The Daily Mail
My Comment: My blood is boiling .... my blood is boiling.
With Scottish Government Decision To Not Release The Lockerbie Bomber's Medical Records, U.S. Senator Calls For Whistle Blowers
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in his hospital room in Tripoli following his release from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Photograph: ReutersMedical Report That Led To Lockerbie Bomber's Release Ignored Standard Treatment Which Lengthens Life -- The Daily Mail
Doctors who predicted the Lockerbie bomber had just three months to live before he was released ignored the standard treatment for the disease, it emerged today.
The medical report used to justify Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi's return home to Libya ignored the prospect he could live for more than a year with medicine.
It had claimed the convicted terrorist would die in three months because his prostate cancer was not responding to treatment.
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More News On The Release Of the Lockerbie Bomber
Alex Salmond will not publish Lockerbie bomber medical records -- The Guardian
US Senator seeks Lockerbie 'whistleblowers' -- AFP
N.J. senator looking for Lockerbie 'whistleblowers' -- The Hill
Senator seeks whistle-blowers in Lockerbie release -- AP
Nothing to fear over US call for Megrahi ‘informers’ -- Herald Scotland
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's cancer doc: I would've been more vague on terrorist's fate -- New York Daily News
Lockerbie bomber 'freed after doctors ignored potential of life-extending drugs' -- The Telegraph
One year after release of Lockerbie bomber Megrahi, questions about BP role -- Christian Science Monitor
Lockerbie Bomber's Doctor Who Diagnosed His Cancer Is Now Back-Tracking On His Medical Opinion
Al-Megrahi in his hospital room in Tripoli following his release from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Photograph: ReutersAl-Megrahi's Doctor: 'I Just Provided An Opinion. Someone Else Let Him Go Free' -- The Guardian
Specialist Karol Sikora says he would have been 'more vague' over the Libyan's health if he had known his opinion would have been treated as fact
The doctor at the centre of the increasingly bitter international debate over the early release of the Lockerbie bomber has spoken to the Observer in his first interview since his expert evidence was used to justify the decision.
Talking ahead of Friday's first anniversary of the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Professor Karol Sikora strongly attacked the way his prognosis was portrayed. The leading cancer specialist said he would have made his evidence "more vague" if he could have foreseen that it was going to be interpreted as a fact that the convicted terrorist was going to die within three months of being released from Scotland's Greenock prison.
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My Comment: My blood is now boiling on what I am reading. The Scottish/British Government at the time either mislead the public on why they released the Lockerbie bomber, or they are so incompetent that charges of stupidity should be leveled at them and they should be made to personally pay for the suffering and harm that they have caused.
The mess and scandal on the release of the Lockerbie Bomber just got even more messier and scandalous.
Update: This is not going to help.
Demands On Releasing The Lockerbie Bomber's Medical Records Are Now Being Made
270 people were killed when Pan Am flight 103 fromLondon to New York was blown up over Lockerbie Photo: AFP
Scottish Government Pressed To Release Medical Advice That Led To Lockerbie Bomber’s Release -- New York Times
LONDON — Ten days before the first anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, the Scottish government on Tuesday came under fresh pressure to justify its decision to release the bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, on medical grounds.
The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Labor party opposition in the Scottish assembly demanded that the government publish full details of the medical advice that led Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to rule that Mr. Megrahi, serving a life sentence for the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in which 270 people died, should be released on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from advanced prostate cancer that made it likely that he had less than three months to live.
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More News On Calls To Release The Lockerbie Bomber's Medical Records
US senators seek Lockerbie bomber medical records -- Reuters
Senators want Lockerbie man's data -- Press Association
US senators call for Lockerbie bomber's medical records -- BBC
US senators seek Lockerbie bomber medical records -- AFP
Scottish officials: Libyan-hired docs had no role in Lockerbie release -- CNN
A year ago today Lockerbie bomber was given three months to live... he's still going strong -- The Daily Mail
My Comment: Kudos to those who are now demanding the release of the information that led to the release of the Lockerbie Bomber. I call this getting down to the nitty-gritty on how the decision was made to release this mass murderer .... and more importantly .... to make people accountable for their actions.
The Lockerbie Scandal Is Getting Outrageous With Each Passing Day
The reconstructed remains of Pan Am Flight 103, blown up over Lockerbie in 1988, were seen in a warehouse in Farnborough, England, in 2008. Getty ImagesU.S. Senators Demand More Info From UK On Lockerbie -- New York Times/Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four U.S. senators have written to the Foreign Secretary curtly demanding more information to help clear up the "public pall" over the release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya.
In an accusing tone rarely used with the United States' closest ally, the senators said it appeared British trade interests with Libya had "won out over justice" in last year's release of the man convicted of the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
"It would behoove all of us if you can bring greater transparency to these matters," the four senators told Foreign Secretary William Hague.
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More News On The Lockerbie Scandal
Lockerbie bomber freed over 'low mood' -- The Telegraph
Faulty medical reports led to Lockerbie bomber’s release -- Toronto Sun
Lockerbie Release Flawed -- Wall Street Journal
Medical Mystery Behind Bomber's Release -- Wall Street Journal
Lockerbie Bomber’s Survival Prognosis Was Unusual: It Proved Pessimistic -- Wall Street Journal
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's cancer not fake - Sikora -- BBC
Megrahi illness not faked, doctors say -- UPI
My Family's Lockerbie Rage -- Brian Flynn, Daily Beast
The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber Is Causing Embarrasement On Both Sides Of The Atlantic
US Publishes Megrahi Release Letter -- BBC
The US government has published a letter sent to First Minister Alex Salmond before the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted of murdering 270 people in 1988, and was freed on compassionate grounds last year because he is terminally ill.
It was claimed the US told Mr Salmond compassionate release was "preferable" to a transfer to a Libyan jail.
The letter confirmed this but it called for him to stay in Scotland if freed.
It said: "The US is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail.
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More News On The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber
U.S. Letter Regarding Continued Detention of Megrahi -- U.S. Department of State
State Department says it did not back Lockerbie bomber's release -- Washington Post
Senators want UK officials at Lockerbie hearing -- Washington Post/AP
Push for Truth Behind Lockerbie Bomber's Release -- NBC New York
N.J. Sen. Menendez to lead hearing on Lockerbie bomber's release -- NJ.com
Scotland hits back on Lockerbie case -- UPI
Senators demand answers in release of Lockerbie bomber -- AC360
Lockerbie row: Key questions put Scottish Government under spotlight -- Scotsman
Americans are outraged that Al Megrahi is still alive -- Linda S. Heard, Gulf News
Barack Obama must also answer questions over the Lockerbie bomber's release -- Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph
More Shocking Revelations Behind The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber
Aug. 21, 2009: Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi shakes the hand of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli in this image from Libya TV. (Reuters)Special Report: The Libya Investment Firm And The Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber -- The Telegraph
Americans are questioning why a company was set up in London a week after news broke that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, may be released.
The terraced house just around the corner from the American embassy in London looks like most in the affluent street. Tall and elegant, only the shiny brass plaque gives a clue to what lies beyond the black front door.
The name reads Dalia Advisory Limited, a company established by Libyan businessmen just a week after the country's officials were told the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was being considered for release on compassionate grounds.
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More News On the Release Of The Lockerbie Bomber
US backed Lockerbie bomber's release: leak -- ABC News (Australia)
Barack Obama faces rising pressure to publish Lockerbie bomber release letter -- The Guardian
Scotland Asks U.S. to Declassify Lockerbie Documents -- Wall Street Journal
White House Reportedly Preferred Scotland to Libya for Released Lockerbie Bomber -- FOX News
'US held talks with Libya to free Lockerbie bomber' -- Times Of India
Lockerbie: now pressure switches to America -- Herald Scotland
Alex Salmond calls for release of Lockerbie files -- BBC News
The U.K. And Scotland Reluctant To Explain Lockerbie Release
Controversial: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi landing in Libya after hewas released from jail last year. Photo from The Daily Mail
US And UK Locked In Standoff Over Senate's Lockerbie Investigation -- The Guardian
Unease in Britain over Americans' request for Jack Straw and Scottish minister Kenny MacAskill to testify in Washington
Britain and the US are locked in a standoff over Lockerbie after a Scottish minister flatly turned down a request to appear before a Senate committee and Jack Straw expressed unease about attending.
Days after David Cameron tried to ease transatlantic tensions by announcing a Whitehall review of the Lockerbie papers, Straw said it would be "highly unusual" to expect a British MP to answer in Washington for decisions made in London.
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More News On The Unwillingness From The U.K. And Scotland On A Lockerbie Probe
US Senate to probe possible links between BP and the release of the Lockerbie bomber -- Deutsche Welle
Anger over Scottish justice minister's Lockerbie inquiry snub -- The Guardian
Scotland snubs US over Lockerbie probe -- The Age
UK's Straw stalls over US Senate Lockerbie invite -- Reuters
Scottish Ministers Skip US Lockerbie Hearing -- The Telegraph
Scots will not attend US hearing on Lockerbie bomber -- BBC
'This is highly unusual': Straw's verdict as U.S. Senate 'invites' him for questioning at Lockerbie bomber hearing -- The Daily Mail
Scots Defend Lockerbie Convict’s Release -- The Telegraph
More Twists in the Lockerbie Bomber Saga -- Newsweek
The Lockerbie Bombing: A black cloud on the horizon for Anglo-American relations? -- the Economist