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Salmond: Trying to include Megrahi in ‘desert deal’ was a mistake

Scotland’s First Minister has criticised the UK Government for seeking to include the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombimng in a prisoner-transfer agreement with Libya.

Alex Salmond told a committee of MPs that former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “deal in the desert” with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a “mistake”.