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  • Did BP play a role in the release of a notorious terrorist? (Sen. Lautenberg and quid pro quo?)

    07/13/2010 12:11:17 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 6/13/10 | Brett Michael Dykes
    A U.S. lawmaker is calling on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to investigate whether BP influenced the release of Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey wants to know whether a quid pro quo led to the 2009 decision by U.K. and Scottish lawmakers to set the Libyan terrorist free. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison in 2001, but released last year when doctors said he had only three months to live before dying of cancer. A doctor now says he could live a decade, according to the Associated...