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Megrahi attends pro-Gaddafi rally

THE only man to be convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has made a rare public appearance at a televised rally in support of Libya's Gaddafi regime.

Abdelbaset al Megrahi, 59, who was controversially freed from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 because he was dying from prostate cancer, was seen in a wheelchair in an apparently live broadcast by Libyan state television yesterday.