( CNN ) -- The truth about the bombing of a PanAm airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in 1988 will come out `` one day , and hopefully in the near future , '' the only man convicted the bombing told Reuters in an interview aired Monday . `` In a few months from now , you will see new facts that will be announced , '' Abdelbeset al-Megrahi told Reuters . `` I do n't want to speak about that because there are people who are looking after that themselves . '' Al-Megrahi 's comments come about five weeks after CNN 's Nic Roberston visited al-Megrahi 's home , where his family said he was in a coma and near death from terminal prostate cancer . At the time of his late August visit , Robertson found al-Megrahi in a metal hospital bed , attached to an IV drip and cared for by an elderly woman that the family said was his mother . He was , Robertson said , `` paper-thin , his face sallow and sunken . '' Reuters : Megrahi says his Lockerbie role exaggerated . `` Clearly he is in a better condition than when I saw him a month ago , '' Robertson said Monday . In the Reuters interview , which the news agency said was recorded Sunday , he remained in bed and at one point was given an oxygen mask to wear , but he appeared lucid . He spoke about his disease and Libyan affairs , and appeared to claim innocence by protesting that he was the victim of the Scottish court that set up at Camp Zeist , a former U.S. military base , as part of an international agreement to try him and a second man . `` Camp Zeist Court is the smallest place on earth that contains the largest number of liars , '' he told Reuters . `` I suffered from the liars at Camp Zeist Court more than you can imagine . '' Robertson said al-Megrahi 's family told him they believe al-Megrahi was the victim of both international justice and the regime of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi , who they say used him as a scapegoat . While al-Megrahi told Reuters that he had been treated badly since his return to Libya , Robertson said Monday that his family is building a `` huge new house in a very upmarket part of Tripoli . '' Given Gadhafi 's ouster , Robertson said , it 's not clear why al-Megrahi is n't speaking out now about what he knows about the bombing , but it 's clear he has answers that many people would like to hear . The court convicted al-Megrahi of murder in the 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103 , which fell from the sky after the explosion , killing 259 people on the airplane and 11 people on the ground . Prosecutors said al-Megrahi , the former chief of security for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta , brought the bomb to Malta . A second man was accused of placing the bomb aboard the plane . The court acquitted him . The Scottish government granted al-Megrahi a compassionate release in 2009 for medical reasons . He was said to have had only months to live when he was released two years ago . His family told Robertson that al-Megrahi had n't seen a doctor since they rescued him from a hospital before Tripoli fell to rebel forces , whom he said looted the medicine from their home . `` We just give him oxygen , '' his son , Khaled , told Robertson in August . `` Nobody gives us any advice . And some food by injection ( drip ) . ... If you see , his body he is weak . '' In the Reuters interview , al-Megrahi said he is still having trouble obtaining the medicine . He also said that he hopes the violence in Libya ends soon . `` I wish from God that I will see my country united , with no fighting or war , '' he told Reuters .
`` New facts '' will come out within months , the convicted Lockerbie bomber tells Reuters . Abdelbeset al-Megrahi was said to be in a coma in August when CNN visited his home . In the interview taped Sunday , he remains in bed but appears lucid .