FILE - This is a Thursday Aug. 20, 2009 file photo of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as he holds his prisoner release papers as he walks toward the airplane at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow Scotland bound for Tripoli, after he was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill . The former Labour government did "all it could" to help Libya secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, Britain's top civil servant Sir Gus O'Donnell said Monday Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson/Pool, File)