Lockerbie bomber freed, returns to cheers in Libya (AP)

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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for downing a US passenger jet that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, boards an aircraft at Glasgow airport in Scotland. The terminally-ill Libyan convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing headed home from Scotland Thursday after being freed on compassionate grounds despite US fury over the decision.(AFP/Pool/Danny Lawson)AP – The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing returned home Thursday to a cheering crowd tossing flower petals in the air after his release from a Scottish prison ? an outrage to many relatives of the 270 people who perished when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded.

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