Lockerbie bomber appears at pro-Gadhafi rally

(AP) Libya's state TV says the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S. aircraft over Lockerbie has attended a rally in Tripoli in support of Moammar Gadhafi.

The TV said a man shown wearing a white turban and sitting in a wheelchair during Tuesday's rally was Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.

Al-Megrahi was convicted in the bombing of a Pan Am plane that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

He was released from a Scottish prison in 2009 on medical grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer and returned to a hero's welcome in Libya.

Gadhafi is locked in battle with Libyan rebels who have seized control of the east of the country and pockets in the west since a civil war erupted in February.

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