Britain denies deal with Libya

He dismissed the international furore over his release, saying U.S. President Barack Obama should know he would not be doing anything apart from going to hospital and waiting to die. Doctors say he may have less than three months to live.

"My message to the British and Scottish communities is that I will put out the evidence (to exonerate me) and ask them to be the jury," Megrahi, sentenced in 2001, said without elaborating.

"(Obama) knows I'm a very ill person," said Megrahi. "The only place I have to go is the hospital for medical treatment."

Gaddafi likened the shock of the Lockerbie relatives at Megrahi's release to that felt by Libyans in 2007 when Bulgarian medics, condemned to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV, were sent back to Bulgaria to serve life terms there, only to be immediately released.

Libya handed the nurses over to Bulgaria under heavy pressure from the West, advancing the long-isolated north African country's efforts to emerge from diplomatic isolation.

"Is it that we don't have feelings and they have?" Gaddafi was quoted by the Libyan news agency JANA as saying.

"The world was shocked and surprised that the condemned team were released before they descended from their plane at the airport in Bulgaria," he said. "They received them as heroes."

"Now that Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has been released from prison, illogical voices have been heard saying this is against the feelings of Lockerbie victims' families."

(Writing by Tom Pfeiffer in Rabat; editing by Andrew Roche)