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Megrahi Denies Lockerbie Role

Still Alive

Gives interview to Reuters from his hospital bed.

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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is still alive, and he’s speaking: “The facts will become clear one day,” the bedridden Lockerbie bomber tells Reuters, two years after he was released from a Scottish prison with a three-month prognosis. "The West exaggerated my name,” he says. "All my work was administrative. I never harmed Libyans. I didn't harm anyone. I've never harmed anyone in my life." He says he hopes the fighting will soon stop in Libya, and asks reporters, “Please leave me alone. I only have a few more days, weeks or months."

Read it at Reuters