New details on the Lockerbie bombing case
2022.12.12 13:03
New details on the Lockerbie bombing case
Budrigannews.com – The following is a chronology of the major events that have occurred since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This week, the capture of a Libyan intelligence agent who is thought to have made the bomb that killed 270 people brought the incident back into the news:
The flight from London to New York explodes over Scotland on December 21, 1988, just minutes after takeoff. All 259 passengers aboard the Boeing are killed in the bombing (NYSE:) 11 Lockerbie residents and a 747 superjumbo jet.
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Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, is found guilty by a three-judge Scottish court on January 31, 2001, at a former U.S. base in the Netherlands, while another agent, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, is cleared. After years of conflict between Libya, Britain, and the United States, the trial has finally begun.
In a letter to the United Nations dated August 15, 2003, Libya acknowledges its responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing. Libya compensates with more than $2 billion. The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on September 12 that lifts Libya’s sanctions in response to the bombing.
Megrahi is freed by the Scottish government on August 20, 2009, after his lawyer reports that the prisoner has advanced prostate cancer. He returns to Libya, his home. Megrahi, who was 60 years old at the time, dies in Tripoli on May 20, 2012.
Mas’ud’s detention in the United States is announced by Scottish and American law enforcement officials on December 11, 2022. He is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Washington, D.C., the following day.
