LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain condemned celebrations in Tripoli to mark the return of the Lockerbie bomber, with London scrambling on Friday to stem fallout from the decision to free him on humanitarian grounds.
Former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was serving a life sentence as the only person convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie which killed 270 people -- 189 of them American.
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