Cameron: No Lockerbie Bomber Inquiry
Bloomberg reports that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is resisting calls for an inquiry into the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is resisting calls for a full inquiry into the release of the Lockerbie bomber from a Scottish prison as U.S. lawmakers said they would press their effort to examine the case.
Cameron met last night with a group of senators who will lead a congressional hearing into the matter, aiming to deflect their calls for a full probe with the offer to review documents and release more information. He and President Barack Obama repeated their condemnations yesterday of the release of Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi by authorities in Scotland last year.
U.S. lawmakers have questioned whether BP Plc lobbied to get al-Megrahi freed as the company sought agreements to drill for oil in Libya. Both BP and the U.K. government have denied that it did so, and Cameron said an inquiry would be pointless.
“I don’t need an inquiry to tell me what was a bad decision, ” Cameron, who opposed al-Megrahi’s release, said at a news conference yesterday with Obama at the White House. “The decision to release Megrahi was a decision made by the Scottish government, and I haven’t seen anything to suggest that the Scottish government were in any way swayed by BP.”
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