NJ Officials Demand Details on Bomber's Release

New Jersey lawmakers discuss Lockerbie bomber

New Jersey's two U.S. senators on Friday renewed calls for answers one year after the Pan Am 103 bomber was released from a Scottish prison.

Democrats Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg are demanding more details about the circumstances of Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi's release on compassionate grounds. He's alive in Libya even though
doctors had said he would likely die of prostate cancer in three months.

The senators have sent a new letter to the British, Scottish, Libyan and Qatari governments citing evidence of commercial pressures influencing his release.

Al-Megrahi was the only person jailed for the 1988 bombing above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed 259 people onboard and 11 on the ground.

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