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Source: BBC

Breaking News

September 14, 2010

Justice officials to meet US senate team over Lockerbie

US senate officials investigating the release of the Lockerbie bomber are to hold talks with the Scottish government in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The team, representing Senator Robert Menendez, will meet Scottish justice officials.

They will not meet Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who freed Abdelbasset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds in August 2009....

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