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Send Lockerbie bomber back, Gaddafi tells Brown in historic meeting at G8 summit

Mummar Gaddafi demanded the return of the Lockerbie bomber yesterday in an extraordinary encounter with Gordon Brown.

The Libyan dictator used their first face-to-face meeting to raise the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who was convicted of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.

He insisted that Al Megrahi, who is suffering from prostate cancer in a Scottish jail, be returned to Libya.
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