A new bill which could aid publication of a secret legal report on the Lockerbie bomber may fail to work properly, it is claimed.

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Concern over Lockerbie report law

The son of the Lockerbie bomber tells the BBC that his family believe he is innocent of the atrocity and that he is very ill.

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Megrahi ‘very sick’, says his son

The Scottish government Monday took aim at critics of its decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, a day after CNN found him comatose and near death.

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Exclusive: Lockerbie bomber near death

Many people believe Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi should now be left to die in peace, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond says.

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‘Leave Lockerbie bomber to die’

TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan rebel government will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, its justice minister said Sunday. New York senators on Aug. 22 asked the Libyan transitional government to hold Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi fully accountable for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people. But the transitional government Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told journalists in Tripoli that the request by American senators had “no meaning” because al-Megrahi had already been tried and convicted. Read full article > >

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Libyan rebel justice minister says Lockerbie bomber won’t be deported

The Scottish government says it has been “vindicated” over its decision to release the Lockerbie bomber two years ago.

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Lockerbie bomber release defended

A leading cancer specialist says it is likely that the Lockerbie bomber is being kept alive by pills not available in the UK.

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Pills may explain bomber survival

LONDON — Scottish officials said Friday that police investigating the 1988 bombing of a U.S. jetliner over the town of Lockerbie have met with Libyan defector Musa Kusa, who they believe has crucial information about Britain’s worst terrorist attack.

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Police meet with Libyan defector on Lockerbie bombing

Former Libyan foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, has been interviewed by Scottish police investigating the Lockerbie bombing, the BBC learns.

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Koussa interviewed over Lockerbie

U.S. officials are ratcheting up their tough talk against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. After a defected minister said last week that Gaddafi had personally ordered the 1988 terrorist bombing-which killed 270 people when a Pan Am plane over Lockerbie,…

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U.S. May Prosecute Gaddafi for Lockerbie

Prime Minister David Cameron has criticised the previous UK government for providing advice to Libya on how to secure the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.

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PM criticises Labour for Libya bomber advice

The previous UK government did “all it could” to facilitate the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a new report says.

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Ministers ‘wanted bomber release’

A Holyrood committee is to consider responses over a call for an inquiry into the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber.

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Lockerbie inquiry call discussed

A US Congressional investigation into the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, says Scotland was pressured to free him.

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Scotland ‘pressured over Megrahi’

The Scottish government was neither threatened nor offered “treats” to free the Lockerbie bomber from jail, First Minister Alex Salmond says.

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Salmond rejects new Megrahi claim