Report: Lockerbie bomber 'at death's door'

LONDON?? The Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Scotland appears to be "at death's door," according to a report.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was found at 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, CNN reported.

Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. He was freed from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009, after he developed prostate cancer and doctors estimated he had three months to live.

Al-Megrahi was described by CNN correspondent Nic Robertson as "a shell of the man that he was, far sicker than he appeared before ... at death's door."

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During the visit, the alleged ex-Libyan intelligence agent apparently was unconscious in bed. Al-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.

Britain's Sky News also reported that al-Megrahi's cancer drugs had been stolen during the uprising.

Scottish officials overseeing the parole of al-Megrahi said Monday they had been in contact with his family and confirmed the convicted bomber's "condition is consistent with someone suffering from terminal prostate cancer."

Al-Megrahi is the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. He was greeted as a hero in his native Libya and met with then-leader Moammar Gadhafi.

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His release after serving eight years of a life sentence infuriated the families of many victims, who suspected Britain's real motive was to improve relations with oil-rich Libya.

Some relatives, however, believe that al-Megrahi was wrongly convicted and that evidence points to Iranian-backed Palestinian militants as the perpetrators.

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On Sunday, the justice minister in the rebel National Transitional Council said al-Megrahi would not be extradited .

"We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West," Mohammed al-Alagi said. "Al-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again."

In Libya, al-Megrahi is widely viewed as an innocent pawn in a political game.

Msnbc.com staff, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44310777/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

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