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The Lockerbie bomber -- who was released from a Scottish prison last year because cancer had supposedly left him at death's door -- could be kept alive for up to five more years.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was said to have just months to live when Scottish authorities made the controversial decision to free him and allow him to return to Libya. But the terrorist, given a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, has since been taking the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the British paper The Sun reports today.
Other reports said that al-Megrahi had not been given the drug while he was in prison -- and might not have been allowed a "compassionate" discharge if it had been prescribed.
Scottish opposition spokesman Bill Aitken demanded full disclosure from Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.
"Was the existence of a drug which is reportedly now extending the life of the Lockerbie bomber included in any of the reports Kenny MacAskill read before making the decision to release him?" he asked.
Al-Megrahi has prostate cancer, but his condition reportedly has stabilized.
"After his treatments, he can be unwell for two or three days but then enjoys a period when he's quite well," a source close to the bomber told the paper.