Included in Mr Bary's list of charges are conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, the bombing of both embassies, murder and attempted murder.

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Al Megrahi was convicted, in January this year, of mass murder over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, with the loss of 270 lives.

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In 1999, he turned over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, and in 2003 the country agreed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction.

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