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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (a Libyan who was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya, and an alleged Libyan intelligence officer) was convicted on 31 January 2001 by a special Scottish Court in the Netherlands for the bomb attack on Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 over Lockerbie.
O n Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, plus another 11 died when the wreckage fell over ...
Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi (pronunciation ⓘ Arabic: عبد الباسط محمد علي المقرحي, ʿAbdu l-Bāsiṭ Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Maqraḥī; 1 April 1952 – 20 May 2012) was a convicted Libyan mass-murderer who was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya, and Libyan intelligence officer. [1]
The flight crashes over Lockerbie, killing all passengers and crew on board as well as 11 residents on the ground. The Swire family journey to Lockerbie, where a journalist reveals to Jim personally that a warning had been given to the FAA sixteen days prior to the attack but was ignored due to it being perceived a hoax. A pressure group is ...
Four decades after the Lockerbie bombing, for which only one man was convicted in 2001 – the former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – Dr Swire said the message behind the new ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing The post Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing appears in US court appeared ...
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Lester Knox Coleman III [1] (September 25, 1943 – August 15, 2021) [2] was an American who was the co-author of the 1993 book Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA, [3] in which he claimed that a secret drug sting enabled terrorists to evade airport security in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103. [4]