22 Aug 2009
The convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, says that he will prove his innocence in the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland that killed 270 people.

Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, said that he has sufficient evidence that would exonerate him from any involvement in the bombing.

"If there is justice in (Britain) I would be acquitted or the verdict would be quashed because it was unsafe. There was a miscarriage of justice," said Megrahi.

In an interview with Britain's Times newspaper, Megrahi dismissed the international furor over his release from a life sentence in Scotland on compassionate grounds due to his terminal prostate cancer.

Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the atrocity which killed all 259 people onboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 as well as 11 people on the ground when the plane exploded above the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Most of the victims were US citizens.

He said that he understood why many of the victims' relatives were angry at his release.

"They have hatred for me. It's natural to behave like this," he said, while adding that others had written to him in prison to say they forgave him whether he was guilty or innocent.
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