Straw turns down US Senate Lockerbie request
By Emma Thelwell, Channel 4 News Updated on 23 July 2010
Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw declines a request to appear before a US Senate committee investigating the release of the Lockerbie bomber, while Channel 4 News looks at Lockerbie, BP and those deals in the desert.
The US Senate invited Mr Straw to the Washington hearing next week, alongside BP chief executive Tony Hayward and the former MI6 agent Sir Mark Allen, who was an advisor to BP.
Sir Mark lobbied Mr Straw to speed up an agreement over prisoner transfers to avoid jeopardising BP's £590m Libyan deal.
However, the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds was made by the Scottish government.
Mr Straw turned down the invitation tonight on the basis that he had "absolutely nothing" to do with the decision.
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