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08/10/2010 05:47 PM

Scottish lawmakers demand medical advice on Lockerbie bomber

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LONDON (AP) - Scottish lawmakers are demanding that their government publish full details of the medical advice that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber almost a year ago.

Opposition Labor Party legislators are calling for the prognosis given on Abdel Baset al-Megrahi’s health before he was freed on compassionate grounds.

The decision to release al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison has stirred anger in the United States and prompted U.S. Senators to begin an investigation into the decision.

Al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted for the 1988 bombing of a jetliner above the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed 259 people, mostly Americans, on the plane and 11 on the ground.

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