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LONDON -- Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset al Megrahi returned to a hero’s welcome in Libya a year ago today. He’d been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1988 terror act against Pan Am flight 103, which left 270 people dead, most of them Americans. He was released by the Scottish government last year on what was called “compassionate grounds.” He has terminal cancer and it was claimed he had three months to live. He’s still alive. “This is a man who showed absolutely no compassion to anyone,” wife of a Lockerbie victim Stephanie Bernstein told Fox...

The son of Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi is to celebrate the first anniversary of the Lockerbie bomber's release by giving a party for him. Saif Gadaffi, whose friends include Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson, will attend the revelry for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in his two-storey house in Tripoli. He will foot the bill for food and drink, following a day's fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. When Megrahi, 58, was released on August 20 last year, Scottish authorities said he had only three months to live and was 'going home to die'. Frank Duggan, a lawyer...