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Sat 08 Aug 2009Libya welcome for Lockerbie bomber 'disgusting' - US
THE WHITE HOUSE last night gave vent to its fury over the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber when it described the triumphalist scenes greeting his homecoming at Tripoli airport as “outrageous and disgusting”.
Amid growing anger on both sides of the Atlantic at the decision of the Scottish government to free the man convicted of the murder of 270 people on Pan Am flight 103, the British government went out of its way to distance itself from the decision.
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