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The BBC and Sky News television reported Wednesday, without quoting sources, that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi will shortly be released and returned to Libya because he is in the terminal stage of prostrate cancer.
The Scottish government would not confirm the report, saying only that it would make a decision before the end of the month.
The US State Department said Thursday that Megrahi should serve out his life prison sentence.
Megrahi, a former Libyan agent, is serving a life sentence for causing the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people. It was Britain's deadliest terrorist attack.
The 35 Syracuse University students killed in the attack were returning from a semester of study abroad. The university has established a student exchange program with Lockerbie to remember the student victims.
"During this time our thoughts are with the Pan Am Flight 103 victims and their families and, as always, keeping the memories alive of those we lost," the university said in the statement.
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The Scottish government would not confirm the report, saying only that it would make a decision before the end of the month.
The US State Department said Thursday that Megrahi should serve out his life prison sentence.
Megrahi, a former Libyan agent, is serving a life sentence for causing the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people. It was Britain's deadliest terrorist attack.
The 35 Syracuse University students killed in the attack were returning from a semester of study abroad. The university has established a student exchange program with Lockerbie to remember the student victims.
"During this time our thoughts are with the Pan Am Flight 103 victims and their families and, as always, keeping the memories alive of those we lost," the university said in the statement.
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