(CNN) -- The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the circumstances surrounding the release of convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbasset al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison last year.
The Scottish government released al-Megrahi just over a year ago on the grounds that he had cancer and was not likely to live more than three more months.
Al-Megrahi is the only person convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground.
Most of the dead were Americans. The flight was heading to New York from Frankfurt, Germany, via London, England, when it blew up.
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