February 2001: Gaddafi with Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, who was tried at a special Scottish court in the Netherlands with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on murder charges relating to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie. Al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in jail, while Fhimah was acquitted

Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP