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MENENDEZ, SCHUMER, LAUTENBERG AND GILLIBRAND CALL
ON BP TO SUSPEND DRILLING ACTIVITY IN LIBYA UNTIL
INVESTIGATION OCCURS IN LOCKERBIE CASE
July 14, 2010
Senators want full
information on BP's alleged involvement in gaining
release of convicted Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi
WASHINGTON
– At a news conference today, U.S. Senators
Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Frank
Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called
on BP to suspend its oil drilling plans in Libya until
its role in the freeing of the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber
is fully known. Before BP makes money off of drilling
there, the senators want to know to what extent BP
helped to facilitate the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
from a Scottish prison in order to finalize and expedite
a $900 million offshore drilling deal with Libya.
BP has admitted to pressuring the British government
to complete a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya
in 2007 in order to facilitate the oil drilling deal,
though it has yet to acknowledge pressuring specifically
on the release of al-Megrahi. Continue
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