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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Gaddafi hugs Lockerbie bomber; Britain denies deal Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:39am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Salah Sarrar and Luke Baker TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain dismissed suggestions of a link between the Lockerbie bomber's release and energy deals with Libya on Saturday, after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi embraced the man and thanked Britain. "The idea that the British government, the Libyan government, would sit down and somehow barter over the freedom or the life of this Libyan prisoner and make it all part of some business deal ... it's not only wrong, it's completely implausible and actually quite offensive," British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said. London and Washington have roundly condemned the "hero's welcome" given to the dying Abdel Basset al-Megrahi on his return home after being freed from a life sentence in a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds. Gaddafi met Megrahi on Friday, giving him a warm embrace and getting a kiss in return, expressed gratitude to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Queen Elizabeth and said their encouragement of Scotland to free him would improve ties. "This step is in the interest of relations between the two countries ... and of the personal friendship between me and them and will be positively reflected for sure in all areas of cooperation between the two countries," he told Libyan TV. His son Saif al-Islam went further, saying that whenever he had met British officials to discuss business, the issue of Megrahi's release had been a condition of any deal being struck. Mandelson said he had met Gaddafi's son twice in the past year and the issue of the Lockerbie bomber had been raised both times, but his release was not tied to business deals. "It's not only completely wrong to make any such suggestion or insinuation, it's also quite offensive," he told reporters. Megrahi, 57, denies he was once a Libyan intelligence agent and was responsible for the bombing, in which a Pan Am jet carrying 259 passengers -- most of them American -- was blown up over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988, killing all those on board and 11 people on the ground. After years of wrangling and sanctions, Libya handed him over for trial and he was sentenced by a special Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands in 2001. He was freed on Thursday because of his terminal prostate cancer. BUSINESS LINK? "In all British interests regarding Libya, I always put you on the table," Saif al-Islam's newspaper quoted him as telling Megrahi on his return to Libya. "All the visits of the ex-Prime Minister Blair and the big secret and public work that all the parties entered into was carried out in order to release you. The exploitation of British-Libyan political and trade interests was always done with the aim of releasing Abdel Basset al-Megrahi." European governments including Britain's are lobbying hard for business in Libya as it emerges from years of sanctions. Oil companies such as BP and Shell are among several British firms hoping to make big profits in the desert country. Britain's Foreign Office flatly denied any link. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Deutsche Postbank CEO eyes profit in 2010 -paper Also On Reuters Business Travel: World's tallest and coldest hotels How a Rust Belt town weathered the storm Blog: South African fury at sex test for track star More International News Afghan election fair, but not free: EU | Video Bill brushes Bermuda, on path off U.S. East Coast North Korea envoys to meet South's president Greek forest fire rages near Athens, damages homes Pakistani Taliban quiz Mehsud kin over "spying" More International News... Video Megrahi meets Libyan leader Gaddafi Play Video Lockerbie bomber arrives in Libya More Video... 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