So how bad will this play-out?Apparently the Lockerbie bomber was freed without opposition by the U.S. and apparently with the consent of the Obama Administration.
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
- From: 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.
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