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Furious U.S. senators have demanded that Britain reinvestigates the circumstances of last year's release of the Lockerbie bomber. Cancer-stricken Abdel Baset Al Megrahi was controversially released from a Scottish prison in August because a doctor said he had only three months to live.

But he is still alive nearly a year later and medical experts have admitted he could live for another ten years or more. The Libyan had served eight years of a life sentence for the December 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew from London to New York.

A total of 270 people died when it exploded over Lockerbie, including 189 Americans.

Democratic senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, of New York, and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, of New Jersey, called for the investigation yesterday in a letter to the UK's ambassador to the U.S. Professor Karol Sikora, who had diagnosed Al Megrahi with terminal prostate cancer, has faced calls to apologise to victims' families.

He admitted it was 'embarrassing' that Al Megrahi had lived much longer than expected, but said there was always a chance he could live longer.

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While I won't get into the political he thinks, they think, or we think.  I don't believe "anyone convicted of a crime such as a terrorist attack on a plane where innocent individuals died should be released just because they are supposed to die."  If he was proven innocent of the crime yes he should be released.  If not there are numerous convicted felons who die in prison.  There has to be something else to this story of why he was released.