Diplomatic Divide Over Hero's Welcome For Lockerbie Bomber
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Channel: Sky News · 2009 · News & Politics
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/ There has been widespread condemnation of the hero's welcome given to the Lockerbie bomber, and now a deepening diplomatic divide. It has emerged that Prime Minister wrote to Colonel Gaddafi asking that Libya "act with sensitivity". That request was ignored, and now Gordon Brown is being urged to make his own position clear on the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Skys Foreign Affairs Editor, Tim Marshall, reports.
