U.S. Officials To Testify On Lockerbie Bomber’s Release
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 12:50PM | Justin Duckham | Share Article | Email Article | Print Article The Senate’s investigation into the release of the Lockerbie Bomber will continue Wednesday via a hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The hearing, which will be chaired by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), will receive testimony from Nancy McEldowney, the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European Affairs and Bruce Swartz, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department. Two health experts will attend the hearing as well.
The bomber, a Libyan citizen named Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, was released by Scottish authorities over a year ago on compassionate grounds. It was determined by the Scots that Al-Megrahi, diagnosed with prostate cancer, was expected to live less than three months.
Al-Megrahi was convicted for bombing Pan-Am flight 103 in 1988.
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