UK did not want to hurt ties with Libya: letters

2009/09/01 14:46:55 @Reuters: Top News

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain did not want to offend Libya by excluding the Lockerbie bomber from a prisoner transfer deal and was told his death in a Scottish jail would damage relations with Tripoli, official documents showed on Tuesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=kzmkhsY-v3U:IHz67hQuLrk:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=kzmkhsY-v3U:IHz67hQuLrk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=kzmkhsY-v3U:IHz67hQuLrk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=kzmkhsY-v3U:IHz67hQuLrk:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=kzmkhsY-v3U:IHz67hQuLrk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/kzmkhsY-v3U" height="1" width="1"/
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