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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bomber-health-claims-unfounded.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Claims that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is close to death are unfounded, a Scottish council said" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-bomber-health-claims-unfounded.jpg" alt="Claims that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is close to death are unfounded, a Scottish council said"/></a></p>
<p>Claims that the Lockerbie bomber is close to death are &#8220;unfounded&#8221;, the local authority charged with monitoring him has insisted.</p>
<p>East Renfrewshire Council was responding to reports that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi had suffered a rapid deterioration in his health.</p>
<p>Terminally ill Megrahi was controversially granted compassionate release from a Scottish jail nearly 16 months ago.</p>
<p>It was reported on Thursday that he was on a life-support machine in Libya and his family expect him to die within days. The reports said he had not been able to speak for some weeks and is now in a coma.</p>
<p>But a spokeswoman for East Renfrewshire Council, whose criminal justice social work staff are charged with monitoring Megrahi, said: &#8220;Media speculation regarding Mr Megrahi is just that, and rumours are unfounded.</p>
<p>&#8220;We continue to be in contact with Mr Megrahi regularly and whenever we need to be for the purposes of supervision.&#8221;</p>
<p>Megrahi was sentenced to life in jail after his conviction for the murder of 270 people in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland.</p>
<p>The decision to free him, taken by Scotland&#8217;s Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, sparked fury in the US and was condemned by President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration.</p>
<p>Last week Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi said Megrahi&#8217;s family would be suing over his &#8220;neglect&#8221; in Greenock Prison.</p>
<p>Speaking to students in London via a video link, he said: &#8220;His health was not looked after in prison. He didn&#8217;t have any periodic examination. I wish him a long life. After he passes away, his family will demand compensation because he was deliberately neglected in prison.&#8221;</p>
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