A year later, freed Lockerbie bomber lives in seclusion
TRIPOLI — A year after the controversial release from jail of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on medical grounds, Libya continues the secrecy over the health of the ex-intelligence agent convicted of the deadly Lockerbie bombing. Serving a life sentence in Scotland for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, Megrahi was given an early release on Aug. 20 last year, after doctors said he had prostate cancer and had just three months to live. But he is still alive a year later, causing an outcry in Britain and the United States, where the majority of the 270 victims of the attack were from. Libya has maintained a news blackout over the 58-year-old Megrahi’s health, who was given a hero’s welcome when he returned home. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100820com3.html |
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