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The British government has released letters to Scottish ministers on the controversial decision to release the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. Terminally ill Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed on August 20th. He had served eight years of a life sentence for the bombing, which led to Pan Am flight 103 exploding over the town of Lockerbie in December 1988. Megrahi received a hero’s welcome when he arrived back in Libya which caused outrage in Britain and the US. The controversy has prompted many Western leaders to stay away from celebrations in Libya this week to mark 40 years since the coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power. The World’s Laura Lynch reports from London.

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August 24th: Scotland’s parliament is holding an emergency session to debate the fallout following Scotland’s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.

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August 21st: The Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing returned home to Libya to a hero’s welcome. And that’s generated a fresh wave of anger in the US and UK about the Libyan agent’s early release.

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August 20th: Scotland has freed the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. Former Libyan intelligence agent, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was the only person convicted in the 1988 downing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie that killed 270 people.

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