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NEWS ABOUT: Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 stories: 7 news summaries

Lockerbie Bomber Bids
to Clear Name

Victims' relatives unimpressed with content of new website

Sep 18, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Lockerbie bomber has launched a website that makes available documents from an appeal he mounted before being released for medical reasons, the Telegraph reports. Relatives of the passengers on Pan Am Flight 103 say Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's site contains nothing new: “It's a lobbying effort. It's almost as... More »

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cancer • terrorism • Scotland • Libya • Lockerbie • Pan Am Flight 103 • bomb victims • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

Minister Who Freed Lockerbie Bomber Has Bro in Oil Biz

Kenny MacAskill's brother has pitched oil business to Libya

Sep 8, 09 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Scottish government minister who freed the Lockerbie bomber has a brother who works in the oil industry and has pitched oil business to Libya, reports the Wall Street Journal. Kenny MacAskill's brother, Allan, spent 20 years at BP, which admits that it lobbied for a prisoner-transfer agreement between the... More »

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oil • Libya • Lockerbie • oil industry • Pan Am Flight 103 • British Petroleum • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi • Kenny MacAskill

 Brown 'Repulsed' by Libya 


Aug 25, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown finally broke his silence on the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi today, denying speculation that it had been part of a deal between the UK and Libya. “When I met Colonel Gaddafi over the summer I made it absolutely clear to him that I had... More »

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Gordon Brown • Libya • bombing • Lockerbie • Pan Am Flight 103 • compassionate release • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

Gadhafi Son to Bomber:
We Cut Deal With UK for You

Business sec. eyed over ties to younger Gadhafi

Aug 23, 09 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even as Scotland insists its decision to release the Lockerbie bomber was a compassionate one, a conversation between Moammar Gadhafi’s son and the bomber suggests some backroom wheeling and dealing, the Sunday Telegraph reports. A transcript has Saif Gadhafi telling the bomber, “You were on the table in... More »

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oil • terrorism • Scotland • deal • Moammar Gadhafi • Seif al Islam Gadhafi • Lockerbie • Lord Mandelson • Pan Am Flight 103 • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi • politics as usual

 Libyans Welcome Home 
 Lockerbie Bomber 

Obama called release 'a mistake'

Aug 20, 09 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi arrived in Libya to a hero's welcome today after being released by Scottish authorities, the BBC reports. Hundreds greeted him at the Tripoli airport waving Libyan flags, and he was then escorted to a private meeting with Moammar Gadhafi. "We have been in contact... More »

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Barack Obama • terrorism • Scotland • Libya • bombing • Moammar Gadhafi • Lockerbie • President Obama • Pan Am Flight 103

(Newser) - The only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been released on compassionate grounds and will return to Libya, reports the BBC. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life for the murder of 270 people, but he is suffering from prostate cancer... More »

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terrorism • Scotland • Libya • bombing • clemency • parole • Lockerbie • plane hijacking • Pan Am Flight 103 • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

Libya Seeks Transfer of Dying Lockerbie Bomber

Scotland has final say over inmate's fate

May 6, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Libya is pressing the Scottish government to OK a transfer that would allow a terminally ill Lockerbie conspirator to die at home, the BBC reports. The prisoner, who was convicted in 2001 for his role in the 1988 Pan Am bombing, would have to drop an appeal that's currently being... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • Scotland • Libya • Lockerbie • Pan Am • Pan Am Flight 103 • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

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