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US senators call for inquiry into release of Lockerbie bomber

Four US senators have written a letter calling on Britain to investigate the circumstances surrounding last year's release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi.

New York Democratic senators Frank Lautenberg, Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer and New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez have written to the British ambassador in Washington.

The letter follows British cancer expert Professor Karol Sikora's admission to a newspaper earlier this week that Megrahi's survival past a three-month prognosis was ''embarrassing''....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)