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White House Backed Release of Lockerbie Bomber

But just days ago, Obama said, "all of us ... were surprised, disappointed and angry" when the news of the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi last year was made public.
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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.

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