Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi speaks to reporters on February 5, 2001 outside his residence where U.S. fighters acting on the orders of then president Ronald Reagan carried out the bombings in 1986. Libyan leader Gaddafi said on Monday the world had been misled over the Libyan role in the Lockerbie airliner bombing. He repeated his denials that the Libyan state, or Libyan secret agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi who was convicted last week of the 1988 bombing, bore any guilt for the attack which killed 270 people over the Scottish town.

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