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Lockerbie bomber: 'I want a public inquiry'

Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, has backed calls for a public inquiry into the atrocity.

Megrahi, 57, said it was "unfair" to the victims' families not to have an inquiry into the bombing.

But he is determined to clear his name and was scathing of the Scottish legal system.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)