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What Happened In Lockerbie Bombing? UK's Worst Terror Attack 35 Years Ago
35 years ago this week the deadliest terror attack in British history took place when Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie and killed all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground.
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Crash Forensics to Determine Whether Bomb Downed Russian Jet
With world powers divided over the cause of a Russian jetliner crash, much rests on forensic teams as they scour a sandy trail of wreckage almost a week after 224 people died in Egypt's worst air disaster.
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Lockerbie Bomber's Relatives Try to Clear His Name
The family of the only person convicted in the Lockerbie bombing joined relatives of the attack's victims on Thursday in demanding a fresh effort to overturn his murder conviction for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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Memorials mark Lockerbie attack anniversary
Families of some of the 270 people who died in an airliner bombing 25 years ago gathered for memorial services Saturday in the United States and Britain, honoring victims of a terror attack that killed dozens of American college students and created instant havoc in the Scottish town where wreckage of the plane rained down.
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Who is Moammar Gaddafi?
It has been over 40 years since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi came to power in Libya - and for nearly as long the West watched his every move. The financier of an eclectic array of guerrilla groups around the globe, he was responsible, according to Western intelligence, for many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the mid-80s, including the 1988 bombin...
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Lockerbie bomber is near death, brother says
The Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is near death and slipping in and out of consciousness, his brother said Monday, insisting he should not return to prison for the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.
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Lockerbie bomber appears at pro-Gaddafi rally
A Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan America plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie has attended a rally in Tripoli in support of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's state TV said.
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Did Gaddafi order Lockerbie bombing?
"I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an interview with Expressen, a Stockholm-based tabloid.Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as justice minister to protest the clampdown on anti-government demonstrations, didn't describe the proof.Gaddafi has accepted Libya's responsibility for the bom...
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Ex-minister says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie: Report
Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya's recently resigned justice minister claims Moammar Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.Expressen quotes Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie." The comments were translated from Arabi...
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Scottish police review Lockerbie case
The Lockerbie bombing case is being reviewed by detectives trying to determine if anyone helped Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
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British Foreign Office denies 'secret' Libya deal
Britain's Foreign Office denied a newspaper report that diplomats had reached a secret agreement with Libya.
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Conspiracy to free Lockerbie bomber?
A new report claims Britain, Scotland and Libya connived to free the Lockerbie bomber responsible for the death of 270 people.
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Trade played role in Megrahi's release: UK
A government minister acknowledged this in an interview on Saturday.
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Libya never paid for Megrahi's medical advice: Scotland
Scotland has rejected allegations that its decision to free the Lockerbie bomber because he is terminally ill was based on medical advice from doctors paid by Libya.
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Libya welcomes Lockerbie bomber
The only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing returned home to Libya to die after Scotland released him from prison.
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What Happened In Lockerbie Bombing? UK's Worst Terror Attack 35 Years Ago
35 years ago this week the deadliest terror attack in British history took place when Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie and killed all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground.
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Crash Forensics to Determine Whether Bomb Downed Russian Jet
With world powers divided over the cause of a Russian jetliner crash, much rests on forensic teams as they scour a sandy trail of wreckage almost a week after 224 people died in Egypt's worst air disaster.
-
Lockerbie Bomber's Relatives Try to Clear His Name
The family of the only person convicted in the Lockerbie bombing joined relatives of the attack's victims on Thursday in demanding a fresh effort to overturn his murder conviction for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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Memorials mark Lockerbie attack anniversary
Families of some of the 270 people who died in an airliner bombing 25 years ago gathered for memorial services Saturday in the United States and Britain, honoring victims of a terror attack that killed dozens of American college students and created instant havoc in the Scottish town where wreckage of the plane rained down.
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Who is Moammar Gaddafi?
It has been over 40 years since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi came to power in Libya - and for nearly as long the West watched his every move. The financier of an eclectic array of guerrilla groups around the globe, he was responsible, according to Western intelligence, for many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the mid-80s, including the 1988 bombin...
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Lockerbie bomber is near death, brother says
The Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is near death and slipping in and out of consciousness, his brother said Monday, insisting he should not return to prison for the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.
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Lockerbie bomber appears at pro-Gaddafi rally
A Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan America plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie has attended a rally in Tripoli in support of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's state TV said.
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Did Gaddafi order Lockerbie bombing?
"I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an interview with Expressen, a Stockholm-based tabloid.Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as justice minister to protest the clampdown on anti-government demonstrations, didn't describe the proof.Gaddafi has accepted Libya's responsibility for the bom...
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Ex-minister says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie: Report
Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya's recently resigned justice minister claims Moammar Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.Expressen quotes Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie." The comments were translated from Arabi...
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Scottish police review Lockerbie case
The Lockerbie bombing case is being reviewed by detectives trying to determine if anyone helped Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
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British Foreign Office denies 'secret' Libya deal
Britain's Foreign Office denied a newspaper report that diplomats had reached a secret agreement with Libya.
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Conspiracy to free Lockerbie bomber?
A new report claims Britain, Scotland and Libya connived to free the Lockerbie bomber responsible for the death of 270 people.
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Trade played role in Megrahi's release: UK
A government minister acknowledged this in an interview on Saturday.
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Libya never paid for Megrahi's medical advice: Scotland
Scotland has rejected allegations that its decision to free the Lockerbie bomber because he is terminally ill was based on medical advice from doctors paid by Libya.
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Libya welcomes Lockerbie bomber
The only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing returned home to Libya to die after Scotland released him from prison.
