FILE - This December 1988 file photo shows wrecked houses and a deep gash in the ground in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland - damage caused by the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988. Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi the only man ever convicted in the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, was due to learn Thursday Aug. 20. 2009,whether he will be freed on compassionate grounds and allowed to return to Libya or die in a British prison.(AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)