Senators Press for Investigation Into Lockerbie Bomber Release
Britain's Daily Mail reports that a group of American senators are pressing for an investigation into the release, last year, of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Al Megrahi.
Furious U.S. senators have demanded that Britain reinvestigates the circumstances of last year's release of the Lockerbie bomber.
Cancer-stricken Abdel Baset Al Megrahi was controversially released from a Scottish prison in August because a doctor said he had only three months to live.
But he is still alive nearly a year later and medical experts have admitted he could live for another ten years or more.
The Libyan had served eight years of a life sentence for the December 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew from London to New York.
A total of 270 people died when it exploded over Lockerbie, including 189 Americans.
Democratic senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, of New York, and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, of New Jersey, called for the investigation yesterday in a letter to the UK's ambassador to the U.S.
