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...fundamental task of judging a mass murder that occurred in Lockerbie. The court thus explicitly accepted testimony that al-Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left it to others to draw further conclusions. Bert Ammerman, a New Jersey resident whose brother Tom was on the Pan Am flight, was quick to do so. "Al-Megrahi's conviction leads straight to the doorsteps of Gaddafi," he said after viewing the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast in New York with dozens of other relatives. "He is a coward. He is a rogue leader. And Libya...
...defendants and set the unique location and parameters of the trial. They were based on the most intense investigation of a terrorist act ever conducted, one that minutely combed the rolling hills of more than 2,200 sq km of southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a 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...
...concealed in a Toshiba radio-cassette player, was placed in a brown Samsonite suitcase amid clothes purchased in Malta. Exactly how that suitcase was spirited aboard an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt is unknown, but the court was convinced that it had been, that it was transferred to a Pan Am flight in Frankfurt and then in London again to the New York-bound plane. The court put ample credence in Maltese shopowner Tony Gauci, who described a man who seemed strangely not to care just what clothes he was buying when he stopped in at Gauci's shop...
...sponsored terrorism," said Aphrodite Tsairis, whose 20-year-old daughter Alexia was killed on Flight 103. Many families had stopped daring to hope for a conviction, and it came as the culmination of a draining struggle against complacency and despair. When Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on the Pan Am flight, heard the verdict, he fainted in the court gallery. But the ruling also underlined another challenge: to start from this now legally established link and go up the chain to the real instigators. President George W. Bush said "the United States government will continue to pressure Libya...
...chapter in the Lockerbie saga, one that seems likely to highlight divisions among the family members. In London late last week, Swire and other British relatives not only renewed calls for a full public inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing, but also raised nagging doubts about the case. "Why did Pan Am 103 crash on Lockerbie, not into the Atlantic Ocean?" Swire asked. With that he pointed to a fundamentally different hypothesis for the bombing, based on two events earlier in 1988. On July 3 the U.S. cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, killing...