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From the Wrongful Convictions Blog: International Innocence Round-up
Family members of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Nigerian intelligence officer convicted of the bombing of Pan Am 103, are claiming that he was wrongfully convicted. Al-Megrahi maintained his innocence until his death on May 20, 2012, and details from Innocence Project Blog Read more »
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Pan Am 103: Libya and a case unclosed , Paul Rogers
The death on 20 May 2012 of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the bombing of a passenger airplane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, has been followed by calls for a renewed enquiry into the circumstance from openDemocracy Read more »
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We still await answers about Pan Am 103
May 23, 2012 12:09 am Share with others: By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Abdel Baset al-Megrahi died in Libya Sunday of prostate cancer at the age of 60. He was the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, which killed 259 on the from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Read more »
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London’s shame
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan intelligence officer convicted in 1988’s Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland — finally succumbed to the cancer that got him an early prison release in 2009. He reportedly died Sunday in Tripoli — seven months a from New York Post Read more »
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The Case Won’t Die: Death of al-Megrahi leaves a void, not an end point
Did the death of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, bring closure? Not really. As for the families of the 35 Syracuse University students who died in the explosion 31,000 feet above Lockerbie, Scotland; the Clay couple a from Syracuse.com Read more »
