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Lockerbie bomber: US puts Brown in the dock

David Cameron came under intense pressure from America last night to call an inquiry into Gordon Brown's role in the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Senior US politicians accused the former prime minister of "cutting deals to release terrorists" after an official report detailed how ministers pushed for the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

The criticism was made after Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, admitted that Mr Brown's administration did "all it could" to help Libya amid fears that British companies would lose multi-million-pound contracts if Megrahi died in prison.

Mr Brown had previously said the release of the terrorist was a decision made solely by the Scottish Executive. The report backed this assertion but also detailed how the Labour government advised Libya about how best to secure the release.

The official admission came less than a week after The Daily Telegraph disclosed that a Foreign Office minister had privately advised Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan regime on how they could secure Megrahi's compassionate release from prison....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)