Us 'Far Preferred' Lockerbie Bomber's Release - Salmond

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The US Government told Scottish officials that the Lockerbie bomber's release on compassionate grounds was "far preferable" to his transfer back to a Libyan jail, it has been revealed.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said yesterday that while America "didn't want" Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released, they would rather see him freed on account of his terminal cancer, than under the prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Libya.

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Us 'Far Preferred' Lockerbie Bomber's Release - Salmond

Megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing, in which 270 people were killed. He was released last August after doctors said he wa...

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