OIL SPILL: BP CONFIRMS LIBYA PRISONER EXCHANGE(ANSAmed) - LONDON, JULY 15 - The giant oil company BP confirmed today that in 2007 it put pressure on the British government with regard to an agreement with Libya on the transfer of prisoners in exchange for an acceleration of talks with Tripoli on offshore oil prospecting.
Confirmation comes from a report released by BP, leading actor in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. According to the report BP said ''to the British government that it was worried by the slow development '' of an accord with Libya for an exchange of prisoners.
The prisoner of which the report speaks is the man behind the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset Al Megrahi.
Yesterday several Democratic senators asked the Department of State to open an investigation to find out if BP had a role in the transfer of Al Megrahi to Libya last summer.
The request of the senators, together with an appeal to BP to close offshore drilling in Libya, was accepted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who then examined the dossier.
Al Megrahi, condemned in 2001 for the Lockerbie bombing, was released by a Scottish court for medical reasons in August. The attacker seemed to be dying of a tumour but after close to a year he is still alive.(ANSAmed).
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.XAM16031.htmlGood thing Obama let these scumbags take the reigns in the cleanup and stopping of a national disaster.
