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Lockerbie Bomber 'Can Get Out of Bed, Walk'

The cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber can get out of bed and walk, although he is a very sick man, the father of a victim reportedly said after visiting him in Libya.

Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi invited Jim Swire, whose 23-year-old daughter Flora was killed in the 1988 bombing, to visit him and the two men spent an hour together in a hospital ward in Tripoli on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse news agency reported late Sunday.

Swire, who is British, is convinced Al-Megrahi is innocent and has launched a campaign for an inquiry into the bombing....
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