The Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound
airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland has been found in Tripoli and appears
"at death's door," CNN reported on Sunday.
CNN correspondent Nic
Robertson said he found Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in what was described as a
palatial house in an upmarket part of Tripoli, guarded by at least six security
cameras and attended to by concerned relatives.
"He appears to be a shell
of the man that he was, far sicker than he appeared before ... at death's
door," Robertson said of Megrahi, who returned to Libya two years ago
after being released from a Scottish prison for health reasons.
The alleged ex-Libyan
intelligence agent apparently lay unconscious in a bed during Robertson's
visit. Megrahi's relatives said he was being kept alive with oxygen and a fluid
drip, had stopped eating and occasionally lapsed into a coma, CNN reported.
Scottish authorities said
several days ago that they had lost contact with Megrahi during the chaotic
conditions caused by Libyan rebels' climactic push to oust long-time ruler
Muammar Gaddafi.
Megrahi was found guilty of
bombing Pan Am flight 103 while en route from London to New York on December
21, 1988. All 259 people aboard the plane were killed and 11 others on the
ground in Lockerbie also died from falling wreckage.
He was sentenced to a minimum
of 27 years' imprisonment. Scotland's regional government, which operates a
criminal justice system independent of London, decided to release Megrahi
because he supposedly was suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer.
(Writing by Paul Simao,
Americas Desk; editing by Anthony
Boadle)
Source : Reuters
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