This Al Jazeera English news update looks at the early release of the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, freed due to his terminal cancer despite objections from the U.S. and the victims' families. Also covered are the Afghan elections, which Pre...
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video.news.sky.com There has been widespread condemnation of the hero’s welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber, and now a deepening diplomatic divide. It has emerged that Prime Minister wrote to Colonel Gaddafi asking that Libya "act with sensitivity". That request was ignored, and now Gordon Bro...
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It’s being claimed that Jack Straw decided two years ago it was in the UK's "overwhelming interests" to make the Lockerbie bomber eligible for return to Libya. Letters leaked to the Sunday Times appear to show the Government originally excluded Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi from a prisoner tra...
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The Justice Secretary has reignited the row over the Lockerbie bomber by admitting trade and oil deals played a "very big part" in the way the Government dealt with him. Jack Straw has told the Daily Telegraph they were a major influence in his decision to include Abdelbaset Al Magrahi in a priso...
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