Reply #100: his family has the chance to say good-bye to him. He asked to

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be transferred to a prison in Libya. I also understand he was awaiting appeal, but the Scottish Govt. didn't believe he'd live long enough so he had to drop the appeal in order to be given compassionate release. He has continually denied any responsibility for the bombing- AND expressed sorrow for the victims (unlike many other "terrorists") and contrary to several claims on DU.

...."In a statement following his release, al-Megrahi stood by his insistence that he was wrongfully convicted.

"I say in the clearest possible terms, which I hope every person in every land will hear - all of this I have had to endure for something that I did not do," he said.

He also said he believed the truth behind the Lockerbie bombing may now never be known.

"I had most to gain and nothing to lose about the whole truth coming out - until my diagnosis of cancer," he said, referring to an appeal that he dropped in order to be freed. "To those victims' relatives who can bear to hear me say this, they continue to have my sincere sympathy for the unimaginable loss that they have suffered."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/08/20/10527741-ap.html

sometimes all is not known- and that which is known makes very little sense.