Aug 13th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
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Megrahi was ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in jail
The news that the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is likely to be freed on compassionate grounds next week, has provoked a strongly divided reaction.
The BBC understands that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who is serving life for murdering 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded in 1988, may be freed because he has terminal prostate cancer.
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Lockerbie bombing: Victims' families fury at Megrahi's release
Aug 14th, 2009 - Telegraph
Scottish ministers have apparently been persuaded that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, 57, who is suffering from terminal prostate cancer, has only weeks to live. He is expected to be freed next week to return home to his family...
Lockerbie: Britons back convict's release but US families outraged
Aug 13th, 2009 - Times Online
Families of the Americans killed in the Lockerbie bombing expressed outrage yesterday that the Scottish government could be on the verge of sending the convicted Libyan bomber home...
Transatlantic split over plans to free Libyan jailed for Lockerbie ...
Aug 13th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A final decision on whether the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will be allowed to return to Libya is expected early next week, but the United States today warned that it would be against such a move. The Scottish justice secretary...
Lockerbie bomber: US relatives furious at his expected release
Aug 13th, 2009 - Telegraph
Susan Cohen, whose only child Theodora, 20, was in of a group of Syracuse University students, said the notion that he should be freed was "vile" and outrageous. "Any letting out of Megrahi would be a disgrace...
Q+A - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and the Lockerbie bombing
Aug 13th, 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, could be released from prison on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya...
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi could be released because of WESTMINSTER’S REFUSAL TO MAKE PUBLIC THE PAPERS RELATING TO THE 1988 DISASTER. Scotland’s top judges are deciding whether to release the secret document. FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID MILIBAND SIGNED A PUBLIC INTEREST IMMUNITY CERTIFICATE TO PREVENT ITS CONTENT BEING REVEALED.(Political News)
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