US approved of Lockerbie bomber's release

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on compassionate grounds instead of his transfer to a prison in Libya.

US 'preferred' compassionate release of Lockerbie bomber, says Alex Salmond - Telegraph

The US Government told Scottish officials that the Lockerbie bomber's release on compassionate grounds was ''far preferable'' to his transfer back to a Libyan jail, it was revealed today.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said today that while America ''didn't want'' Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released, they would rather see him freed on account of his terminal cancer, than under the prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Libya.

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi | The Australian

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.

 

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The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Ruh-Roh.

 

[tim]

I cannot believe that Fox News got scooped....

 

[XtennesseeX]

It'll be interesting to hear what those four U.S. Senators who were asking for an investigation have to say.

 

[tim]

Ruh-Roh.

Sometimes I feel like Scooby and Shaggy are running the show.. Zoinks.