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Britain's justice system is seriously flawed!

GREENOCK, Scotland (CNN) -- The only man ever convicted over the Lockerbie passenger plane bombing is to be released and allowed to return to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill, Scotland's justice minister said Thursday.

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi 57 was serving a life sentence for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, resulting in the deaths of 270 people.

The White House, which has urged Britain to keep al Megrahi behind bars, said it "deeply regrets" the decision.

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill told a news conference that the prisoner, who doctors say has three months to live, was "going home to die" and would put on a plane later Thursday.... source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe...ber/index.html