<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cf02bced-901f-4e1e-9ccd-58895ad43c5b/4AA5479A-FAB8-42A0-A1E9-460019791CFF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/" href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/"><H1> Is Lockerbie Gordon Brown’s Watergate? </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/">Evidence is mounting of British government involvement in the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/">A damning leaked Whitehall letter reveals that Straw wrote to MacAskill:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/"><P><EM>“I had previously accepted the importance of the al-Megrahi issue to Scotland and said I would try to get an exclusion for him on the face of the agreement. I have not been able to secure an explicit exclusion.”</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/"><EM>“The wider negotiations with the Libyans are reaching a critical stage and, in view of the overwhelming interests for the United Kingdom, I have agreed that in this instance the [prisoner transfer agreement] should be in the standard form and not mention any individual.”</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/"><P>Just six weeks later, according to <EM>The Sunday Times </EM>report, Libya ratified an oil and gas exploration deal with BP worth up to £15 billion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/"> Gordon Brown</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100007923/could-lockerbie-become-gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-watergate/">has staked his reputation on a <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/25/brown-repulsed-megrahi-reception-libya">firm denial</A> that his government had any role whatsoever in influencing the decision to free Megrahi</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4AA5479A-FAB8-42A0-A1E9-460019791CFF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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