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...made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientists to clone Dolly the sheep four years...
...years, Lockerbie did not put up its Christmas lights. The memory of that December night in 1988, when death rained down from the skies, was too painful. Most people in this small Scottish market town were at home preparing for the holidays when Pan Am 103 exploded. The next day, they quietly took down their trees and tinsel and began mourning the 259 passengers and 11 neighbors who were killed. Time has gradually healed those memories, and two years ago Lockerbie restored its Christmas decorations. But it was last week, with the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, that...
...field still strapped into their seats. "They were clasped tightly together, their fingers crossed, and a look of horror on their faces," he says. Like others in Lockerbie, Parr muses that al-Megrahi must be "a small cog in a big wheel," but he is equally proud of the Scottish justice system and what he sees as a fair trial. He feels it is time to move...
...Lockerbie trial's star witness, Libyan double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, was a good catch. "He wasn't just a one-time asset," says a U.S. intelligence official. "He was providing information to us on other matters." But to the Scottish judges in Camp Zeist, he was hopeless. "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid as a credible and reliable witness," they ruled. For his contradictory and unconvincing performance on the stand, they rejected Giaka's testimony linking the Libyan defendants to the bombing; as a direct result, one of the two accused, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, walked free...
CONVICTED. ABDEL BASSET ALI AL-MEGRAHI, former head of Libyan aviation security, of the murder of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; by a Scottish tribunal in the Netherlands. Al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. His co-defendant, LAMEN KHALIFA FHIMAH, was acquitted owing to insufficient evidence...