Tripoli: The convicted Lockerbie bomber, released from a Scottish jail in August on compassionate grounds because of terminal cancer, has been admitted to hospital intensive care in Tripoli, a Libyan official said on Wednesday.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer and was given only three months to live when he was released on August 20, was hospitalised "three days ago," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Megrahi is in the Tripoli Medical Center's cancer section, which has been cordoned off by security services, who are banning visitors, a security officer said at the scene.
The 57 year-old former intelligence officer was the only man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 above the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, which killed 270 people.
He received a jail term of at least 27 years in 2001 and served eight years before his release.
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed Megrahi on compassionate grounds, saying that the Libyan was dying from his illness.
Megrahi's release -- and the hero's welcome he received on his return to Tripoli -- drew a furious US reaction, both from President Barack Obama's administration and families of the 189 US victims of the atrocity.