Lockerbie Bomber Release Stirs Diplomatic Dispute (ap)

The aeroplane carrying Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi arrives at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. 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. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)AP – The release of the only man convicted of blowing up a Pan Am flight in 1988 has brought high drama and controversy: the jeering mob outside a Scottish prison, the cheering crowd at a Tripoli airport, the furious families of the 270 people who died in the Lockerbie bombing.

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