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Brown backtracks on threat over hero's welcome for bomber

By James Cusick, Westminster Editor

GORDON Brown has backtracked on threats made by him in a letter to Colonel Gadaffi, in which the Prime Minister warned the Libyan leader that a hero's welcome for the Lockerbie bomber in Tripoli would jeopardise UK relations with the north African state.