Government Rejects Claims Lockerbie Bomber Set to Be Released

The ScotsmanAugust 13, 2009

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THE Scottish Government moved to quash growing speculation last night that the Lockerbie bomber would be released within days on compassionate grounds to return to Libya.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was sentenced to life in prison for blowing up a US airliner as it flew over Lockerbie in 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.

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Government Rejects Claims Lockerbie Bomber Set to Be Released

However, high-level talks between UK officials and Libyan author...

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