New Lockerbie bombing suspects

Pan Am flight 103 – bound from London to New York – was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. All 259 people aboard the plane and
11 people on the ground were killed
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Nov 1991: U.S. and British investigators indict Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi (left) and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah on 270 counts of murder. Suspects are
accused of being Libyan agents

Apr 1992: United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions on Libya for refusal to hand over suspects

Apr 1999: Libya hands over suspects – sanctions lifted

May 2000: Trial of suspects begins at Camp Zeist in Netherlands under Scottish law

Jan 2001: Al Megrahi is found guilty and jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Fhimah is acquitted

2003: President Gaddafi agrees to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to families of those killed

Aug 2009: Al Megrahi is released from prison on compassionate grounds due to terminal cancer – he returns to Libya and is welcomed by Abdullah al-Senussi (second from left), President Gaddafi’s spymaster. Al Megrahi dies in May 2012

Oct 15, 2015: U.S. and Scottish authorities make formal request to Libyan attorney general for permission to interview two more Libyans identified as suspects

Other suspects: Al-Senussi, Nasser Ali Ashour, intelligence officer who supplied explosives and weapons to IRA in 1980s, Musbah Eter (second from right),
convicted for 1986 disco bombing in Germany and Abu Agila Mas’ud (right), who is believed to have made Pan Am bomb
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Source: Ken Dornstein, The New Yorker  Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

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