Brown the betrayer: U.S. fury over Britain's broken promise to keep bomber in jail
Britain has been accused of 'bare-faced lies' over the Lockerbie bomber's release which will damage its special relationship with the US for years.
Gordon Brown faced a backlash at home and abroad after it was confirmed that the Libyans had been told privately that he did not want Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to die in jail.
And the Foreign Office was accused of tearing up a 'cast-iron' promise given to the Americans and the United Nations a decade ago that the terrorist - released last month on compassionate grounds - would stay behind bars in Scotland.
Some senior Labour figures are in despair at the Prime Minister's handling of the affair, and there was ill-disguised fury in the US, where there were claims that the Obama administration had been given only ten minutes' notice of the decision to release Megrahi.
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Gordon Brown faced a backlash at home and abroad after it was confirmed that the Libyans had been told privately that he did not want Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to die in jail.
And the Foreign Office was accused of tearing up a 'cast-iron' promise given to the Americans and the United Nations a decade ago that the terrorist - released last month on compassionate grounds - would stay behind bars in Scotland.
Some senior Labour figures are in despair at the Prime Minister's handling of the affair, and there was ill-disguised fury in the US, where there were claims that the Obama administration had been given only ten minutes' notice of the decision to release Megrahi.