Brown, BP Cleared of Lobbying Scots to Free Bomber
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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government and BP Plc were cleared of lobbying Scottish politicians to free Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi in a report that said U.K. officials helped Libya seek his release.
Al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in 1988, was freed in 2009 by the Scottish government on the grounds that he would die from prostate cancer within months. He returned to his native Libya to a hero’s welcome and is still alive.