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US pressures Scotland not to release ‘Lockerbie bomber’

Posted by EurActiv.com Correspondent on 20/08/09

The following was published by EurActiv.com on Wednesday 19th August 2009.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted it would be “absolutely wrong” for the Scottish government to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan convicted for loading a bomb aboard a Boeing 747 in 1988, killing a total of 270 people.
“I just think it is absolutely [...]

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