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...many Americans and Britons, Saif is best known for successfully negotiating the release from a Scottish jail of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland - an attack which killed 270 people - al-Megrahi returned to a hero's welcome in Tripoli last August with Saif by his side. The move cemented Saif's standing among millions of ordinary Libyans. "After that, Saif could no longer be accused of being infected with Western values," says Noman Benotman, a former leader in the militant Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, who fought...
Most recently, he has agreed to serve as an ‘objective expert’ for the legal team handling the appeal of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am flight...
CONVICTED. ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI, 48, one of two defendants in the murder trial over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270; in Camp Zeist, the Netherlands. After a nine-month trial, three Scottish judges delivered a split verdict, sentencing Megrahi to life imprisonment for bombing the U.S. airliner while acquitting co-defendant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44. The verdicts ended a decade-long struggle between the West and Libya, though Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was tried as an individual...
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