Britain rejects speculation of deal in Lockerbie release
Sunday, August 23, 2009
LONDON -- Britain rejected Saturday any suggestion it had struck a deal with Libya to free the Lockerbie bomber -- questions that arose when Moammar Gadhafi publicly thanked British officials as he embraced the man convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 airline bombing.
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