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...onto the Pan Am plane that went first to London's Heathrow Airport and then took off for New York City. The bomb exploded as the plane flew over Scotland, causing it to crash on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish border. Another man - Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima - was also tried for his involvement in the bombing but was acquitted. (Read: "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy...
...features an entryway lined with a large photograph of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and framed, centuries-old correspondence between popes and Persian monarchs, including a Nov. 16, 1561, letter in Latin from Pope Pius V to Shah Tahmasp I. The current No. 2 official at the embassy, Vice-Ambassador Ahmad Fahima, said that despite some concern last year about the Pope's provocative speech about Islam in Regensburg, Germany, "relations between Iran and the Holy See are very good." Last April's release of 15 British sailors held by Iran - a decision that Ahmadinejad called "an Easter gift" - came just...
Asked about the standoff with the West over his country's nuclear program, Fahima repeated Iran's insistence that it is seeking atomic power only for civilian purposes. Moreover, he said he doubts that the United States can resolve key regional issues in the Middle East, including Iraq and Lebanon, without the help of Iran. "We don't expect the superpower will attack," Fahima concluded. "But if they do, I am sure the Holy See would not be favorable to such a choice...
...Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie have told a Scottish court they're not responsible for the atrocity - and even if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima are convicted, few observers and family members of the victims believe that the real author of the crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various...
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