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Libya claims Megrahi had role in Lockerbie bombing

THE new Libyan Government has admitted for the first time that Abdelbasset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was involved in the Lockerbie bombing, which claimed the lives of 270 people.

Ashour Shamis, adviser to the country's Prime Minister Abdurrahim al Keib, scotched the theory the only man convicted of the atrocity was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Mr Shamis claimed that, as a security adviser to Colonel Gaddafi, Megrahi would have had a part to play.