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UK warns against feting al-Megrahi’s release anniversary
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A year after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie attack, the UK has warned Libya against a repeat of the ceremonies which marked his return home. Britain's foreign minister called celebrations seen last year after al-Megrahi's release from a Scottish prison would be "deeply insensitive". Milad Maatoug, the head of Libya's National Youth Council, which organized celebrations last year, said its annual festival would "have nothing to do with al-Megrahi’s homecoming at all". Many relatives of the 270 people killed in the bombing of a Pan American airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie are still indignant at al-Megrahi's release. Aljazeera.net.