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Report: Ex-Minister Says Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Libya's ex-justice minister on Wednesday was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. "I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an...

UK Warns Libya Against Celebrating Bomber's Release

(Aug. 20) -- Britain has warned Libya not to stage any celebrations to mark the anniversary today of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, saying to do so would be "tasteless, offensive and deeply insensitive." So far today, Libya appeared to be keeping quiet about the anniversary. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was freed from...

Cameron Rebuffs US, Says No New Inquiry on Bomber

WASHINGTON (July 20) -- Drawn into an old disaster, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he would not order a fresh investigation into why a convicted bomber was set free or whether BP had a role in it. President Barack Obama stood by his new peer but said that "all the facts" must come out. In declaring his...

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...

Background on Lockerbie Scotland

Lockerbie ( or Locarbaidh) is a town in the Dumfries and Galloway region of south-western Scotland. It lies approximately from Glasgow, and from the English border.

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