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

1

2

3

4

November 1991

August 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 (2),

President Gaddafi’s spymaster.

Al Megrahi dies at his home in

Tripoli in May 2012

U.S. and British investigators

indict Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed

Al Megrahi (1) and Al Amin Khalifa

Fhimah on 270 counts of murder

April 1992

United Nations Security Council

imposes sanctions on Libya

for refusal to hand over suspects

October 15, 2015

April 1999

U.S. and Scottish authorities make

formal request to Libyan attorney

general for permission to interview

two more Libyans identified as

suspects

Libya hands over suspects –

sanctions lifted

May 2000

Trial begins at Camp Zeist in

Netherlands under Scottish law

Other suspects

January 2001

Al-Senussi, Nasser Ali Ashour (2),

intelligence officer who supplied

explosives to IRA in 1980s,

Musbah Eter (3), convicted for

1986 disco bombing in Germany

and Abu Agila Mas’ud (4), who

is believed to have made

Pan Am bomb

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

Source: Ken Dornstein, The New Yorker

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

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

1

2

3

4

November 1991

August 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 (2),

President Gaddafi’s spymaster.

Al Megrahi dies at his home in

Tripoli in May 2012

U.S. and British investigators

indict Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed

Al Megrahi (1) and Al Amin Khalifa

Fhimah on 270 counts of murder

April 1992

United Nations Security Council

imposes sanctions on Libya

for refusal to hand over suspects

October 15, 2015

April 1999

U.S. and Scottish authorities make

formal request to Libyan attorney

general for permission to interview

two more Libyans identified as

suspects

Libya hands over suspects –

sanctions lifted

May 2000

Trial begins at Camp Zeist in

Netherlands under Scottish law

Other suspects

January 2001

Al-Senussi, Nasser Ali Ashour,

intelligence officer who supplied

explosives to IRA in 1980s,

Musbah Eter (3), convicted for

1986 disco bombing in Germany

and Abu Agila Mas’ud (4), who

is believed to have made

Pan Am bomb

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

Source: Ken Dornstein, The New Yorker

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

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

1

2

3

4

November 1991

U.S. and British investigators indict Abdel Baset

Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi (1) and Al Amin Khalifa

Fhimah on 270 counts of murder

April 1992

United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions on

Libya for refusal to hand over suspects

April 1999

Libya hands over suspects – sanctions lifted

May 2000

Trial begins in Netherlands under Scottish law

January 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

August 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 (2),

President Gaddafi’s spymaster.

Al Megrahi dies at his home in Tripoli in May 2012

October 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 to IRA in 1980s,

Musbah Eter (3), convicted for 1986 disco bombing

in Germany and Abu Agila Mas’ud (4), who is

believed to have made Pan Am bomb

Source: Ken Dornstein, The New Yorker

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images

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

1

2

November 1991

U.S. and British investigators

indict Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed

Al Megrahi (1) and Al Amin Khalifa

Fhimah on 270 counts of murder

April 1992

United Nations Security Council

imposes sanctions on Libya

for refusal to hand over suspects

April 1999

Libya hands over suspects –

sanctions lifted

May 2000

Trial begins at Camp Zeist in

Netherlands under Scottish law

January 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

August 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 (2),

President Gaddafi’s spymaster.

Al Megrahi dies at his home in

Tripoli in May 2012

3

4

October 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 to IRA in 1980s,

Musbah Eter (3), convicted for

1986 disco bombing in Germany

and Abu Agila Mas’ud (4), who

is believed to have made

Pan Am bomb

Source: Ken Dornstein, The New Yorker

Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images