TRIPOLI, Libya, April 4 (UPI) -- Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi is "within four weeks" of dying of cancer in Libya, a British doctor says.
Dr. Karol Sikora told The Sunday Times of London al-Megrahi is bed-ridden and on morphine.
The convicted terrorist had been freed from a Scottish prison last August and deported to Libya after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Sikora is receiving updates from a doctor in Tripoli. Megrahi's cancer, he said, has reached his prostate to his kidneys, liver, pelvis and lymph nodes.
"I say he will be dead within four weeks," Sikora predicted. "My understanding is that he's bed-bound, at home, not going to the hospital, receiving palliative care and no active treatment at all."
Al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent who turned 58 last week, is the only person to be convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in which
270 people died.
Upon being sent back to Libya despite heated criticism from many quarters in Britain and the United States, Megrahi was treated as a hero in that country.
