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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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
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