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...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...
...fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder of 270 people and sentence him to life imprisonment in a Scottish jail. His co-defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found not guilty...
Libya did not immediately react to Hardie's offer. Representatives for the North African nation are scheduled to lay out their case Friday. Libya has refused to hand over Abdel Basset Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah despite crippling U.N. economic sanctions imposed...
...record $4 million reward for information leading to their capture and conviction. "We'll follow them to the ends of the world to bring them to court," Robert "Bear" Bryant, an assistant FBI director, told a news conference. The suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were charged in the U.S. and Scotland in 1991 with planting a suitcase bomb that killed all 270 people aboard 103. The FBI, which believes they've been hiding in Libya, says it will employ "innovative methods . . . to elicit the cooperation of the people of Libya and North Africa," including Internet...
...government's charges against al-Megrahi and Fhimah don't explain how the bronze-colored Samsonite suitcase, dispatched via Air Malta, eluded Frankfurt's elaborate airport security system. Instead, the indictment zeroes in on two tiny pieces of forensic evidence -- a fingernail-size fragment of green plastic from a Swiss digital timer, and a charred piece of shirt...