US politicians accuse BP over Lockerbie terrorist al-Megrahi

A US senator has stepped up the political attacks on BP, this time calling for an investigation into its Libyan interests and connecting the group with the deal to free the Lockerbie bomber.

New Jersey Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg has asked for an inquest into whether BP helped to secure the early release of Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber freed by Scottish authorities last year, The Telegraph reports. "It is shocking to even contemplate that BP is profiting from the release of a terrorist with the blood of 189 Americans on his hands," Mr Lautenberg wrote in a letter to the Senate foreign relations committee. BP said last night it was well-known it had expressed concern to the UK Government about the slow speed of Megrahi's release, but had not displayed any v...