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It is a year since Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds. Since then voices here and abroad have questioned how ill he really was, if money and oil were the real reasons for his release and whether he was in fact guilty of causing the Lockerbie tragedy. James Silver looks into the claims and investigates why they have emerged.
By BBC Radio 44
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It is a year since Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds. Since then voices here and abroad have questioned how ill he really was, if money and oil were the real reasons for his release and whether he was in fact guilty of causing the Lockerbie tragedy. James Silver looks into the claims and investigates why they have emerged.

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