Lockerbie Bomber Released

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Lockerbie Bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi Not Dead, Says Lawyer

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

LONDON — The British lawyer for Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi said Wednesday that his client was alive, contradicting a Sky News repor...

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Libyans Picked the Wrong New York City Realtor to Try to Dupe

Vicky Ward | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

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New York has a new hero in Jason Haber, who told the Libyan dictator's representatives that he would find them a lavish apartment only if they returned the Lockerbie bomber to Scotland.

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The Colonel, Human Rights and Lockerbie

Tom Porteous | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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The furor over al-Megrahi's release has only deepened the suspicions of deal making and compromise that have tainted the West's decade-long efforts to rehabilitate Libya.

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President Obama, Gordon Brown, Deaths in Afghanistan and More British Deception Over Lockerbie

Vicky Ward | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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If applause is what Gordon Brown wants, he's not getting it. When, for the sake of his country, is the British Prime Minister going to do the decent thing -- and resign?

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Africa MPs Cheer Lockerbie Bomber

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Megrahi, looking frail in a wheelchair, received a standing ovation from a group of African MPs in the hospital where he is receiving care for cancer....

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Sept. 7, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Israeli government approves construction of hundreds of new homes in occupied West Bank. How do you say, "Up yours, Obama " in Hebrew?

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Lockerbie And Libya's Other Internal Wars: The Families' Pain

Heba Morayef | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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How does a former pariah state deal with gross human rights abuses of the past? The UK, U.S. and Italy should encourage Libya to address the past, rather than allow all to be forgiven in the name of petrodollars.

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UK Did Not Want To Hurt Ties With Libya: Official Documents

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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LONDON — In the years leading up to Scotland's release of the Lockerbie bomber, Britain repeatedly stressed the importance of growing UK-Libyan ...

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Lockerbie Bomber In Hospital, Libya Says

AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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TRIPOLI, Libya — A Libyan official said the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has been hospitalized and television footage showed him breat...

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Jack Straw Denies Claims That Lockerbie Bomber Megrahi Was Released For Libyan Oil

The Guardian | Michael White and Severin Carrell | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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The justice secretary, Jack Straw, today denied fresh allegations that he gave the Scottish government the green light to release Abdelbaset al-Megrah...

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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered

Nick Turse | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

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A week ago, two convicted mass murderers leaped back into public consciousness as news coverage of their stories briefly intersected. One was freed from prison, the other expressed his contrition.

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The Truth About Lockerbie May Now Never Come Out Thanks to Gordon Brown's Thirst for Libyan Oil

Vicky Ward | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Megrahi's release and hero's welcome in Libya, along with the leak of two letters from Britain's justice minister, have prompted calls for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop evading the issue.

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What Is Justice for Lockerbie?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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As bystanders to tragedies like the Lockerbie disaster, you and I have no moral weight; we are outsiders. But we aren't outsiders in our own lives, where we face moral choices just as tangled.

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Lockerbie Bomber Release Has "Obvious" Links With Trade Talks: Gaddafi's Son

guardian.co.uk | Severin Carrell, Scotland Correspondent | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown is under renewed pressure to release details about the UK's dealings with Libya after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son said there was an "ob...

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Why Britain Should Apologize for Releasing the Lockerbie Killer -- and Why it Won't

Vicky Ward | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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Imagine if Bernie Madoff were to have cancer and he were to be released like the Lockerbie killer? There would, no doubt, rightly be outrage in the streets.

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Bar Kaddafi From Entering the U.S.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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I lived in Europe for 11 years and I learned that Europe has lost the capacity to hate evil. Amorality that masquerades as modern liberal sensibility has left the continent morally bankrupt.

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Another Reason for a Truth Commission

Byron Williams | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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Don't the families of the victims of Iraq and the war on terror, and the nation as a whole, deserve a collective truth for the worst foreign policy blunder in our history?

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The Lockerbie Bomber Speaks: "I'm Very, Very Happy"

Times Online | Martin Fletcher in Tripoli | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

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Is he the evil perpetrator of the deadliest terrorist attack in British history, or a sick old man, a loving father and grandfather, who has suffered ...

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Britain Under Pressure To Explain Role In Lockerbie Release

AP | DANICA KIRKA | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

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LONDON — Britain's leaders faced new pressure Saturday to explain any role they might have had in the release of the Lockerbie bomber after Liby...

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Salt in Their Wounds

Nancy Snow | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

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I can't imagine what it must have been like for the families of the 35 Syracuse University students to get the news that Pan Am Flight 103 had exploded over the tiny Scottish town of Lockerbie.

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Lockerbie Victims' Group Plans Next Move After Abdel Baset al-Megrahi Release

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

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NEWARK, N.J. — Relatives of Americans killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, plan to converge on New York City in ...

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Compassionate Release Redux

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

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Take a moment to read these names. Read them all or read a few. If you're reading this and knew one of them, tell us who he was, tell us what she hoped to become.

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