Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi set free

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, top left, is accompanied by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 after Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top, left, using stick, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is accompanied by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, on the staits right, is helped by a relative upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 after Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Libyans surround the convoy of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, as they hold posters showing his image and Scottish flags upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, on the stairs right, carrying a stick is helped by a relative upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya to die after he was released from a Scottish prison Thursday, a decision that outraged some relatives of the 270 people killed when the jetliner blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP ** Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, on the stairs right, carrying a stick is helped by a relative upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

The aeroplane carrying Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi arrives at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya to die after he was released from a Scottish prison Thursday, a decision that outraged some relatives of the 270 people killed when the jetliner blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, second left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya to die after he was released from a Scottish prison Thursday, a decision that outraged some relatives of the 270 people killed when the jetliner blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, on the stairs right, is helped by a relative upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya on Thursday.

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he walks toward the airplane at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow Scotland bound for Tripoli, after he was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson/Pool)