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Posted: August 21, 2009 at 5:24 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is just one little thing that says this is not going to hurt any of us for him to be released and go die with his family." Caroline Stevens of Little Rock, whose son, Sandy Phillips, died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, on the decision to release the only man convicted in the attack, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, on compassionate grounds.
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