Senate to ask BP to testify at hearing on release of Lockerbie bomber

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Senate to invite BP to Lockerbie bomber hearing

WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is inviting oil giant BP to testify at a hearing on last year’s release of the Lockerbie airliner bomber.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry says the July 29 hearing will deal with what he calls “the mistaken release” of the only person ever convicted in the bombing.

Senators this week asked the State Department to investigate whether BP played a role in winning the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. Scotland released al-Megrahi after doctors said he had only months to live because of cancer. A doctor now says he may live as many as 10 years.

The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people, most of them American.