The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed today’s hearing on the release of the man convicted for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, because of what a senator said is “stonewalling” by British and Scottish officials who refused to testify.

Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat who was to have chaired the hearing, said “no witness of consequence has the courage” to step up and clear the air.

The committee is looking into whether BP sought Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi’s release to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.

BP acknowledged it urged the British government to sign a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, but stress-ed it did not specify his case.

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