Did BP Arrange Release Of Lockerbie Bomber?

Did BP Arrange Release Of Lockerbie Bomber?

On Monday, Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, called on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations “to investigate the role that BP may have played in securing the early release” of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted of murder for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Senator Lautenberg wrote in a letter to the committee’s chairman:

According to recent news reports, BP is about to begin drilling for oil in Libya’s Gulf of Sidra. During negotiations of this oil exploration plan in 2007, the oil giant may have encouraged the release of Mr. Megrahi to help close the deal.

More in link. From what I've heard about this there's sufficient enough links between BP and the Libyan deal to raise a fair amount of valid suspicion. As if there wasn't good enough reason to hate BP already....