Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 30

26-Jul-2010

LIBYA

US Politicians Push For Investigation On BP And Lockerbie

BP has come under fire from a group of US politicians, who are calling for a full State Department investigation into whether the company was involved in last years release ofʹAbd al-Basit al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of involvement in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. The explosion killed 270 people, including 189...