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Lockerbie, 31 years on.
[BBC] 21 December 1988A bomb blows a passenger plane from the sky above Scotland 270 people are killed There was a bomb in the forward hold. It was hidden inside a radio cassette recorder which was in a suitcase. Twelve years after Pan Am 103 fell on Lockerbie, Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of mass murder. He was sentenced in 2001 to 27 years in a Scottish prison but was released on compassionate grounds eight years later after being diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He died in 2012. But the story did not die with him Related: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: 2014-03-12 Iranian intelligence defector: Pan Am 103 was the work of Iran. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: 2013-07-29 Lockerbie bomber release linked to arms deal, according to secret letter Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: 2011-08-19 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wants to leave Power Related: Lockerbie: 2018-12-23 Lockerbie 'bomber' found living in America Lockerbie: 2018-12-13 Remembering 21 December 1988 and Lockerbie Lockerbie: 2017-06-05 Timeline of major terror attacks in Britain Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-24 |
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