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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Scotland's justice secretary says he is ready to meet with members of the U.S. Senate and defend the decision to release a Libyan terrorist. Kenny MacAskil said the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was made appropriately and given due process -- despite the fact that the cancer-stricken airliner bomber is still alive nearly a year after he was released with a prognosis of dying within three months. Megrahi was sent back to Libya last year after serving nearly 10 years for the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103, which crashed in Scotland and killed...