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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: "The truth will become clear one day...new facts will be announced"
The man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has told the Reuters news agency his role in the attack had been exaggerated.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi said the truth would emerge soon.
Megrahi was interviewed in his home in Tripoli where he has lived since being sent home from a Scottish prison.
He had been serving a life sentence for murdering 270 people in the bombing but was released on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with cancer.
He was released in August 2009, with doctors estimating he had three months to live because of prostate cancer.
Megrahi is seen in the Reuters interview in bed with oxygen containers beside him, although he was not wearing an oxygen mask.
He told the interviewer he had only a few months to live at best.
Megrahi said the facts about the bombing would become clear one day and hopefully in the near future.
The convicted bomber has previously claimed he would release new information about the atrocity but little new has emerged.
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He told Reuters: "The facts (about the Lockerbie bombing) will become clear one day and hopefully in the near future. In a few months from now, you will see new facts that will be announced.
"The West exaggerated my name. Please leave me alone. I only have a few more days, weeks or months."
Megrahi was found guilty of bombing Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.
All 259 people aboard the plane, which was travelling from London to New York, were killed along with 11 others on the ground.
Megrahi, who had served as an intelligence agent during the rule of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, denied any role in the human rights abuses committed by Gaddafi's administration.
"All my work was administrative. I never harmed Libyans," he said.
"I didn't harm anyone. I've never harmed anyone in my life."
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: "The truth will become clear one day...new facts will be announced"
The man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has told the Reuters news agency his role in the attack had been exaggerated.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi said the truth would emerge soon.
Megrahi was interviewed in his home in Tripoli where he has lived since being sent home from a Scottish prison.
He had been serving a life sentence for murdering 270 people in the bombing but was released on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with cancer.
He was released in August 2009, with doctors estimating he had three months to live because of prostate cancer.
Megrahi is seen in the Reuters interview in bed with oxygen containers beside him, although he was not wearing an oxygen mask.
He told the interviewer he had only a few months to live at best.
Megrahi said the facts about the bombing would become clear one day and hopefully in the near future.
The convicted bomber has previously claimed he would release new information about the atrocity but little new has emerged.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote
The West exaggerated my name. Please leave me alone. I only have a few more days, weeks or months”
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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
He told Reuters: "The facts (about the Lockerbie bombing) will become clear one day and hopefully in the near future. In a few months from now, you will see new facts that will be announced.
"The West exaggerated my name. Please leave me alone. I only have a few more days, weeks or months."
Megrahi was found guilty of bombing Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.
All 259 people aboard the plane, which was travelling from London to New York, were killed along with 11 others on the ground.
Megrahi, who had served as an intelligence agent during the rule of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, denied any role in the human rights abuses committed by Gaddafi's administration.
"All my work was administrative. I never harmed Libyans," he said.
"I didn't harm anyone. I've never harmed anyone in my life."
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