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Another Reason to Hate BP: Lobbying for Lockerbie Bomber

ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (July 15) -- BP had already called in the heavy artillery to help repair its image after April's oil rig explosion in the gulf. But as the oil still gushes nearly three months later, even a nuclear bomb is unlikely to obliterate the PR fallout over its confirmation that it lobbied the British...

BP Lobbied Brits Ahead of Lockerbie Bomber Release

LONDON (July 15) -- Amid a new U.S. furor over trading a terrorist for commercial considerations, BP confirmed today that it had lobbied the British government in late 2007 over a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya prior to the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. The London-based petroleum giant said...