May 30, 2012

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U.S. Says No Plans To Tie Libya Aid To Lockerbie Bomber Case

AP | By MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Chuck Schumer, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Pan Am Flight 103, Charles Schumer, Gaddafi, Lockerbie Bomber Case, Libya, Video, Lockerbie Bomber, Libya Rebels, Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan Rebels, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, World News

By MATTHEW LEE, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Wednesday it will continue to press Libyan rebels to review t...

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Lockerbie Bomber's Family Remaining In Libya: Neighbor

AP | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Abdel-Baset Al-Megrahi, Libya, Lockerbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, Tripoli, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, Libya Uprising, Libya Protests, World News

TRIPOLI, Libya — No one answered the door Saturday at the Lockerbie bomber's Tripoli villa, hidden behind tall walls in an upscale neighborhood ...

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Lockerbie Widow: Libyan Defector Shouldn't Get Immunity

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The wife of a Justice Department special agent killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 said she doesn’t believe officials in B...

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U.S. Official Warns Of Libyan-Backed Terrorist Attacks

The New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

The United States is bracing for possible Libyan-backed terrorist attacks, President Obama's top counterterrorism official said on Friday....

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WATCH: Former Bush Official Calls Obama Response To Libya 'Too Slow'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration official known as one of the key architects of the Iraq war, has been sharply criticizing t...

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UK Government Reportedly Did 'All It Could' To Help Free Lockerbie Bomber

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Britain's previous government did "all it could" to help Libya win the release of the only man convicted of the Pan Am bombing in Scotl...

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BP Alleged Involvement in Lockerbie Terrorist Release Accelerates

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Megrahi, Bp, United Kingdom, Heathrow Airport, President Barack Obama, Politics, Scotland, William Haig, Lockerbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, British Petroleum, Prime Minister David Cameron, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, London, John Kerry, Pan Am 103, Sir Mark Allen, BP Oil Spill, Dalia Advisory Limited, Libya, Breaking Politics News, Lockerbie, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Pan Am, Tripoli, World News

BP, facing mounting claims that it is not handling damage payments for the oil spill, is likely to face significant wrath from the Senate and the White House if the controversy over their involvement in Megrahi's release intensifies.

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'Flaws' In Key Lockerbie Evidence

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi....

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Specter of Forced Repatriation

Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pmoi, Camp Ashraf, Mek, Geneva Conventions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojahedin-E-Khalq, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Indyk, Dell Dailey, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, State Department, Mohammed Khatami, World News

The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.

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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered

Nick Turse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber, My Lai, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, World News

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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This Democrat Is Disappointed With His President and His Party

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida Recount, Bill Clinton, Illegal Torture, President Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, CIA Torture, Valerie Plame, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.

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Another Reason for a Truth Commission

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Politics News

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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Lockerbie Bomber To Be Released, Say Reports

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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EDINBURGH, Scotland — A decision has been reached in the case of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and will be announced Thursday, the Sco...

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Lockerbie Bomber Drops Second Appeal

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bombing, Scottish Prison, Lockerbie-Appeal, Scotland, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie-Bomb-Conviction, Cancer, Lockerbie Pan Am, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Scotland, World News

EDINBURGH, Scotland — The sole man found guilty in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie is dropping his appeal against conviction, his lawye...

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Lockerbie Bombing: Families React To Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi's Possible Release

The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Scotland Bombing, Pan Am, Libyan Relations, Libyan Terrorist, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie Scotland, Libya, Remember Lockerbie, 1988, Lockerbie Bomb Victims, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, Libya Bombing, 1988 Lockerbie, Lockerbie Release, World News

Emotions are running high among the families of the Lockerbie bomb victims over news that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi may be released early on compassio...

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Remembering Lockerbie (Audio Slideshow)

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Libya, Lockerbie Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103, Pan Am 103, Remembering Lockerbie, World News

The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie was brought suddenly and shockingly to the world's attention on a wintry evening 20 years ago....

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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, "Lockerbie Bomber" Of Pan Am Flight 103, To Be Set Free (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Terrorism, Pan Am Bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, Lockberbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, Airplane Bombing, Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie Scotland, Muammar Gaddafi, Slideshow, New York News

After days of speculation, SkyNews is reporting that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, will be ...

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