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Article: Lockerbie bomber's release angers families
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- New Haven Register
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- August 21, 2009
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By Luther Turmelle North Bureau Chief
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is expected to die of pancreatic cancer
within three months, but the demise of the only man convicted in the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 can't come soon enough for the parents
of Wallingford native Tricia Coyle, who was among the 259 who died
in the skies Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The families of the dead, President Barack Obama and other U.S.
officials angrily criticized a decision by Scottish authorities to
release the terminally ill al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds.
The former Libyan intelligence officer was convicted in 2001 and
sentenced to serve a minimum of 27 years in a Scottish prison for
Britain's ...