Premiership of Gordon Brown into further talks over the issue. Finally, after a Commons Home Affairs Committee meeting between campaigners, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office on 19 May, Brown announced to the House of Commons on 20 May that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith would make a statement on the issue the following day. Smith subsequently announced that all Gurkha veterans who had served four years or more in the British Army before 1997 would be allowed to settle in Britain. In the days following the release and high-profile return to Libya of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in August 2009, speculation
Robert Baer UK, to present four authoritative documentaries, beginning with the series, "Cult of the Suicide Bomber I", "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber II" and "Cult of the Suicide Bomber III" on the origins of suicide bombing. "Cult of the Suicide Bomber I" was nominated for an Emmy in 2006. In 2008 Baer presented "Car Bomb", a film history about car bombs. Baer was interviewed in the Robert Greenwald documentary "". He was also one of the main participants in the 2009 documentary film "Lockerbie Revisited" by Dutch film director Gideon Levy. Baer recently wrote an online foreword to "Hoodwinked", by