New York, 03 Sept-(ANA)-The US ambassador to the UN has warned Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to be careful how he conducts himself on his forthcoming trip to New York.
Susan Rice said his visit to the UN General Assembly later this month had the potential to inflame US emotions.
The Libyan welcome given to the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has caused widespread anger.
The Scottish and UK governments are also under fire over the release of the dying bomber on compassionate grounds.
Senior US Senator Frank Lautenberg has called for a Congressional hearing into whether the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was influenced by the prospect of a lucrative oil contract.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday insisted no deals were done over Megrahi, and said his release was a matter for the Scottish government.
Megrahi was freed last month, eight years into a life sentence imposed for his part in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 270 people.
Suffering from terminal cancer, Megrahi has had chemotherapy and is now in a cancer ward at a hospital in Tripoli, reports say. (ANA)
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