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Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi speaks to a doctor as he wears a medical and sits on a wheelchair during a meeting with an African delegation at a hospital in Tripoli on September 9, 2009
Friday, Dec. 23, 2011

Open quoteI am about to die and I ask now to be left in peace with my family.Close quote

  • ABDELBASET AL-MEGRAHI,
  • known as the Lockerbie bomber, saying that he will not accept anymore interviews; he reiterated his claim that he was not involved in the 1988 plane bombing
Photo: MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP / Getty Images | Source: Guardian