Word: khalifas
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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...
...horrific 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...
...Jason Johnson, 25, met Meriam Al-Khalifa, 19, in a shopping mall last year during his tour of duty in Bahrain, a tiny country off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Their love became so strong - and so forbidden - that Al-Khalifa was confined to her house; she contacted Johnson through secret letters. Then last November, when his tour was over, the couple sneaked out of Bahrain on a commercial jet with Al-Khalifa disguised as a Marine, her hair tucked into a New York Yankees baseball cap. They landed in Chicago, only to meet the stateside heavies: the Immigration...
...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...
...Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition, having watched the deaths this year of three fellow Arab stalwarts, King Hussein of Jordan, King Hassan II of Morocco and Emir Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain. Observes an Assad watcher at the White House: "He has a sense of his own mortality...