Word: libyans
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...Libya formally accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, paying $2.7 billion in compensation to relatives of the 259 people on board and 11 town residents who died in the attack. Since then, however, Libyan officials have denied culpability and suggested that the payout was made as part of its recent efforts to normalize relations with the West...
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of murdering 270 people when a bomb he planted on Pan-Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, has been released from prison after serving eight years of a life sentence...
...Making the announcement on Thursday, Justice Secretary of Scotland Kenny MacAskill said that Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds because he has terminal prostate cancer and is unlikely to live past the next three months. A Libyan jet met Al-Megrahi at Scotland's Glasgow Airport to take him back to Tripoli, where he was greeted by hundreds of people, many of them waving flags. Al-Megrahi was met by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was quoted as saying, "I would like to thank the Scottish government for its courageous decision and understanding...
Though investigators initially suspected a Palestinian terrorist group backed by Iran or Syria, the charred contents of one recovered suitcase - which included bits of a Toshiba radio-cassette player and scraps of clothing with Maltese labels - eventually led officials to a Libyan man named Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of murder in 2001, and remains the only person to have served time for the atrocity. But after serving eight years, Al-Megrahi, who suffers from terminal prostate cancer, was freed Aug. 20 from a Scottish prison on "compassionate grounds." The decision to release the 57-year...
...Born April 1, 1952 in the Libyan capitol of Tripoli. He and his family belong to the same tribe as one of Muammar Gaddafii's most trusted lieutenants. This connection was used to explain al-Megrahi's motive in the Lockerbie bombing, which prosecutors argued was retaliation for 1986 U.S. air strikes that killed one of Gaddafi's adopted children...