WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence BP Plc had any connection to last year's release of a Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Saturday.
Hague sent U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry a letter offering that assurance as BP remains under scrutiny over its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the U.S. coast.
The Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a July 29 hearing on possible ties between BP and the release by Scotland of Abdel Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person convicted of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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