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Lockerbie Bomber Dies at 60

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans, died yesterday in Libya, at the age of 60. His death comes nearly three years after Scotland released him from prison on humanitarian grounds, and 11 years after his conviction for planting a bomb on Pan Am […]

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Wikileaks documents on the Lockerbie case

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The WikiLeaks release includes cables that provide new details on how and why the convicted Lockerbie bomber was released from prison last year and allowed to return home to Libya. The World’s Jason Margolis has more.