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Lockerbie papers to be published

Terminally ill Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed on 20 August.

The Holyrood documents are expected to include details of a meeting in Greenock Prison between Megrahi and Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.

Westminster sources indicated on Monday the UK government would publish all correspondence with Scottish ministers.

The sources say the communications indicate there was no discussion of compassionate release of prisoners and support the UK government's position that no deals were done with Libya to secure Megrahi's freedom.

UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has previously described reports that the bomber was released over an oil deal as "wholly untrue".

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