'Lockerbie bomber' to be released early - 13 Aug 09

  • 12 years ago
Jailed for the murder of 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing of 1988, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is expected to be freed on compassionate grounds.

Serving a life sentence in prison in Scotland for planting a bomb on PanAm flight 103, he is suffering from terminal cancer.

Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports.

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