A government spokesman said Scotland’s justice minister was likely to rule this month on whether a former Libyan agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing can return home. The man, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, has terminal prostate cancer. Mr. Megrahi, 57, was sentenced to life in prison for blowing up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as it flew from London to New York on Dec. 21, 1988. Some British news media reported Wednesday, without providing sources, that Mr. Megrahi would be allowed to return to Libya, but Scottish officials denied that such a decision had been made.

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