Lockerbie Bomber Freed, Returns To Libya To Die (ap)

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 in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya to die after he was released from a Scottish prison Thursday, a decision that outraged some relatives of the 270 people killed when the jetliner blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, more than two decades ago.

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