In today's international pick of the press, we look at what Obama has learned from Afghanistan - and will we ever really know who brought down Pan Am flight 103?
Papers, short on detail about Muammar Gaddafi's final moments, turn to photos for impact. Some of the shots of the deceased Libyan dictatorship are stomach-churning and have sparked controversy. Gaddafi's end is the focus for this international press review, Friday 21st October 2011.
The Libyan caretaker government rejected on Monday the Scottish Crown Office request for assistance in the inquiry into the Lockerbie airliner bombing, in which 270 people were killed over Scotland in 1998.
In Tuesday's international papers, we look at whether the convicted Lockerbie bomber should be allowed to die in peace in Libya, why Algeria has welcomed the Gaddafi family, and at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei calling Beijing "a Kafkaesque nightmare".
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airplane bombing, is in a coma at his Tripoli home, CNN reports. Libya’s National Transitional Council has said it will not extradite him, despite renewed pressure.
The echoes of the Libyan conflict are being heard in a small Scottish town. The people of Lockerbie side with the rebels after new revelations that suggest Colonel Gaddafi ordered the bombing of the plane that crashed into the town in 1988. And Russia takes on the question of what to do with its past, quite literally, in the shape of a debate over Lenin's corpse.
A man whose daughter was killed when Pan Am flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, visited Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (pictured), who was convicted of the bombing, in Tripoli on Tuesday. Jim Swire says he believes Megrahi is innocent.
The US has called for Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi (pictured) to be returned to a Scottish jail, renewing protests over the compassionate release last year of the man convicted for the 1988 bombing of a US passenger plane.
Four US senators have called on the British and Scottish governments to back a fresh probe into the release of the Lockerbie bomber after suggestions that energy giant BP had lobbied on al-Megrahi’s behalf to curry favour with Libya.
BP is to begin drilling off the coast of Libya, despite being mired in controversy over its suspected role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
