Lockerbie bomber innocent, says Gaddafi

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi claims his former secret agent jailed for the Lockerbie bombing is innocent.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi claims his former secret agent jailed for the Lockerbie bombing is innocent.

He says he will produce evidence on Monday to clear Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.

Al Megrahi, 48, was jailed for life on Wednesday for the murder of 270 people in the 1988 bombing.

Colonel Gaddafi made his claim as Al Megrahi's co-accused, cleared by the three Scottish judges sitting at Camp Zeist in Holland, arrived to a hero's welcome in Tripoli.

Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44, emerged from a Dutch air force plane in Tripoli shouting "God is great" as relatives and friends swarmed around, embracing him and chanting: "Justice has triumphed. Down with America".

Earlier, the families of the victims of the Lockerbie air disaster demanded to know who ordered the bomb that killed their loved ones.

But the prosecutor who led the nine-month trial, Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC, said there was insufficient evidence for any further criminal proceedings, despite acknowledging Megrahi did not act alone.

And former South African president Nelson Mandela - who brokered the deal that put the men on trial - called for sanctions on Libya to be lifted.

Libya's ambassador to Britain said he did not believe the verdict was final.

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