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Lockerbie Bomber to Be Released

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"Compassionate release" in spite of Hillary’s lobbying.

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, which killed all 270 people on a PanAm flight from London to New York in 1988, is expected to be given "compassionate release" so that he can spend his final days with his family. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had lobbied for Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi to remain behind bars for the rest of his life in spite of his fatal case of prostate cancer. In 2003, a Scottish court declared that al Megrahi should spend at least 27 years in prison before being considered for parole, though it seems they have had a change of heart.

Read it at CNN