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018766
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Feb 12, 2001.
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18-23
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115099
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2012.
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The release of the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988 is the most significant diplomatic decision taken by the Scottish government. The decision constituted a two-level process: the British government's behaviour was characterised by commercial interests; and the Scottish governments by calculated compassion. Britain's policy was steered by its national interest in securing Libya's rehabilitation into international society and ensuring that British businesses could benefit. Scotland's paradiplomacy shifted from a strategy of avoidance to one using the release to further the idea of an independent Scotland. Presenting the release in such a way was to bolster the idea of Scotland as a distinct entity with its own set of values, laws, and customs and possessing an ability to operate autonomously on the international stage.
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093739
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2009.
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ON 20 AUGUST, 2009 Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, earlier sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing, the biggest terrorist act in Britain's history, was released from prison in Scotland. Fifty-seven-year-old Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill following reports that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live. Megrahi arrived back home to national celebrations and acclaim, accompanied by the waving of Scottish flags, although only one dignitary, Saif al-Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, was there to greet him. Gaddafi received him the following day. Britain and America were outraged by this reception and by the release itself. The scandal spread and gained momentum, becoming increasingly intense as time went by.
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