A Northern Ireland victims’ campaigner says he is hopeful the Libyan government will open its files on IRA links after it promised to disclose all documents relating to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland, which claimed 270 lives. The Libyan administration is said to be preparing to release all files [...]

Conal Urquhart | 11 August 2012 (Guardian) Convicted Lockerbie bomber’s ill-health was convenient for everyone with ‘something to hide’, author tells book festival The cancer diagnosis of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was a “gift from God” to the Libyan, British and Scottish governments,Abdelbaset al-Megrahi‘s biographer has said. John [...]

With both Moammar Gadhafi and Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi now dead, it is unlikely a clearer picture will emerge of the details and planning of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. CAIRO — Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, died at home [...]

By Hadeel Al-Shalchi The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. He was 59. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi died at home after a long battle with cancer. His health had deteriorated quickly, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters [...]

The convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi was unconscious and in critical condition in the hospital in Tripoli on Sunday, a close relative said. “He is unconscious and his condition has been very critical over the last three days,” the relative, who did not wish to be named, told [...]

By Ali Shuaib The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people was transferred to hospital on Friday after his health deteriorated quickly, his brother said. Abdulbasit al-Megrahi was taken from his Tripoli home to a private hospital, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters. “His [...]

By Stephen Stewart AILING Abdelbaset al-Megrahi celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday – nearly three years after he was freed because he had ‘months to live’. The man convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing spent the day with friends and family in a suburb of Tripoli. But [...]

By Ben Borland ONE of the Lockerbie bomber’s sons is now a campaigner for Arab rights at the exclusive £18,000-a-year American University in Dubai, the Scottish Sunday Express can reveal. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi celebrates his 60th birthday today, almost three years after being released from a Scottish prison supposedly with only [...]

The Sunday Herald has chosen to publish the full report online today to allow the public to see for themselves the analysis of the evidence which could have resulted in the acquittal of Megrahi”   – Sunday Herald Full details of the Lockerbie bomber’s grounds for appeal have been published for [...]

First Minister Alex Salmond has called for the publication of the Lockerbie bomber’s grounds for appeal. It follows assurances by Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland that members of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) would not be prosecuted for publishing the details. The publication of a SCCRC report where the [...]

Photo: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (AFP/File, Mahmud Turkia) By Dominique Soguel (AFP) Why did they shut up about this all these years and bring it up now? – Libya’s interior minister TRIPOLI — Libya’s interior minister on Tuesday ruled out a visit by British police to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing or [...]

Wednesday, December 21, 1988 was the longest night of the year, the night of the winter solstice. At 6.30pm that evening Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London Heathrow airport en route to JFK New York. On board Clipper Maid of the Skies, as it was called, were 16 [...]