Released Lockerbie bomber arrives home in Libya

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing arrived back in Libya on Thursday after Scottish authorities released him because he is dying of cancer.

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi's plane landed at Tripoli's Mitiga Airport and he emerged after a long wait on the tarmac to greet members of his family, a Reuters reporter on the scene said.

The cockpit of the Pan Am passenger plane that exploded over  Lockerbie in 1988. Families of victims of the Lockerbie disaster  reacted with a mixture of anger and compassion Thursday to reports  that the convicted bomber would be freed from a British jail next  week as he is dying.(AFP/File/Letkey)