(CNN) -- Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed growing anxiety in the British government over threats from the Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, should the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset al-Megrahi die in a Scottish prison.
By late 2008, al-Megrahi's health was declining. Diagnosed with prostate cancer, he had been given months to live.
And it had become a badge of pride for the Libyans to bring him home.
A cable from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, in January 2009 says: "The U.K. Embassy expects a sharply negative GOL (Libyan) reaction if al-Megrahi dies in prison or if the Scottish Executive and/or FCO oppose his transfer," referring to Scotland's government and the British Foreign Office in London.
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