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How To Go To Heaven: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/how_to_be_saved.html Tripoli - 14 Aug 2009 ...... A delegation from the US Congress held talks with Libyan officials in Tripoli on Friday, amid speculation that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing could be released early from prison on compassionate grounds. Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who is terminally ill with cancer, is serving a life sentence in a Scottish prison for the attack on Pan Am Flight 103.Talking to reporters in Tripoli, delegation member Senator John McCain said he understood no formal decision had been made regarding the release of al-Megrahi, but did not elaborate. Lawyers for al-Megrahi said on Friday he intended to drop his appeal against conviction, as Scottish officials consider his request for transfer to Libya.British broadcasters this week said without citing sources that he could be released early from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.The Scottish government, however, said it had yet to decide on his motion for early release. They were also considering a motion to allow him to serve the rest of his sentence in Libya.At Friday's news conference, McCain said US delegation's talks with Libyan officials had focused in particular on the "provision of non-lethal defence equipment" to Libya's government.He added there were many ways that the US and Libya could "work together as partners", but stressed that the US still had concerns about the status of human rights and political reforms in Libya. The Arizona senator continued saying that the "ties between the United States and Libya have taken a remarkable and positive turn in recent years". US-Libyan relations hit a low in the 1980s, but began to improve after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whom former US President Ronald Reagan once famously called the "mad dog of the Middle East", renounced weapons of mass destruction in 2003. Gadhafi engineered a rapprochement with his former critics following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He voluntarily dismantled Libya's secret programme to develop nuclear weapons, earning commitments from Britain and the United States to work together to contain the threat of international militant extremism. The Libyan government applied in May to have al-Megrahi repatriated under a prison transfer agreement it has with Britain.Separately, al-Megrahi applied in July for release on compassionate grounds, claiming he was terminally ill with prostate cancer.The former Libyan secret service agent is the sole person convicted for the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.He was arrested in 1991 and held under house arrest in Libya until handed over in 1998 to Britain. He was convicted in 2001 by a special Scottish court set held at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands. Wide of Senator John McCain speaking at news conference, surrounded by (left to right) Senator Joseph Lieberman, Senator Susan Collins, and Senator Lindsay Graham Aljazeera Reports Journalist Briefs Latest Update Interview News CBS CBSepisode ABC ABCnews Alex Jones Rand Ron Paul Judge Andrew Napolitano Mike Rivero Jeff Rense David Icke Wayne Madsen Webster Tarpley Paul Craig Roberts Gerald Celente Max Keiser Peter Schiff Bob Chapman John Pilger Stossel Rachel Maddow Chris Matthew Glenn Beck Rush Limbauh Bill O'Reilly Anderson Cooper Michael Savage Sarah Palin Julian Assange Wikileaks Dennis Kucinich Video Top Air Ground Over Government Infowars.com Fired Down Tomahawk Missile Death Toll Tanks Injuries Victims Military Asset Opposition Fight Fighting Launch Bloody Rage Unrest Hit Airstrikes Strikes Intervention Forces Torture Fierce Assault Embattled Condemns Rally Dance Islam Vows Residents Speech Ultimatum Allied Deaths "Defense Secretary" Colonel Casulties Funeral Coalition Threaten Enforcing Planes Warfare Fighter Jets Loyal Defiant Supporters Pentagon Joint Staff Vice Admiral Odyssey Dawn North Africa Al-Qaeda Iran Iraq Afghanistan Pa...