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Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial

Lockerbie Bomber Dies at 60

August 15, 2013

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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