Explosives expert 'blows a fuse' on bomber release

Published: Aug. 21, 2009, 4 a.m.

Thursday's release of the only person convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 outrages explosives expert Tom Thurman. In 1988, Thurman was among the Americans in Lockerbie, Scotland to investigate the bombing. The Kentuckian says freeing Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is "a travesty." Kentucky Public Radio's Charles Compton has more