Other notable cases · 1988 · 1980s

The Lockerbie Bombing

In December 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001; the case remains politically and legally contested.

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