President Barack Obama Takes Aim at UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Over Lockerbie Bomber Release

The White House has said President Barack Obama has contacted UK Prime Minster Gordon Brown and voiced his displeasure with the leader’s involvement in securing the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people.

Megrahi had been serving a life sentence in a Scottish jail but he was recently released on compassionate grounds. He is said to be suffering from terminal prostate cancer and officials have said he is not expected to live much longer. The Scottish government arranged for Megrahi to return to his native Libya but that arrangement drew a vocal response from the families of the victims, many of whom blamed Brown for the decision.

On Thursday Obama addressed the issue during a 40-minute phone conversation he had with Brown. According to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs “The president expressed his disappointment over the Scottish Executive's decision to release convicted Pan Am 103 Bomber al-Megrahi back to Libya.’

Obama had already publicly denounced the decision to release Megrahi but he has never pointed the finger of blame directly at Brown.

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