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Libyan Agent Convicted in Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 Over Lockerbie Granted New Appeal

A former Libyan intelligence agent may have been wrongly convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland, a judicial panel said Thursday, recommending that he be granted a new appeal.Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , who is serving a life sentence, was the only person convicted for the bombing, which killed 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground, including 179 Americans."The commission is of the view, based upon our lengthy investigations, new evidence we have found and other evidence which was not before the trial court, that the applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of justice," the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission said in a statement summarizing its 800-page report.The Court of Appeal will consider the report and decide whether an appeal is warranted.The Libyan intelligence agent has always maintained his innocence, and the commission, an independent judicial body that investigates possible miscarriages of justice, appeared to side with him.Al-Megrahi...

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  1. Timeline of the Lockerbie Case

    Key events since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Dec. 21, 1988:  A bomb inside a Samsonite suitcase blows a hole in the fuselage of a Pan Am airliner as it fl...

  2. Lockerbie Bomber Freed From Prison on Compassionate Grounds

    The man responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing returned home to Libya on Thursday to cheering crowds, and throngs of people waving posters of the convicted kille...

  3. Libya: Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber Prepared to Drop Appeal

    The only person jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing said he would drop his appeal against conviction — provided Britain allows him to serve the rest of sentence i...

  4. Scotland's Parliament Votes Not to Back Lockerbie Bomber's Release

    Scotland's Parliament voted Wednesday to reject the government's decision to free Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from his life sentence and return him to hi...

  5. Libya Withdraws Lockerbie Victims' Money

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  6. Lockerbie bomber still causing an uproar a year after his release, just by staying alive

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  9. U.S. Demands Review of Decision to Free Lockerbie Bomber

    WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has asked the governments of Scotland and Britain to review the decision last summer to release the Libyan convicted in the Lo...

  10. Lockerbie Bomber Reportedly Blackmailed Qaddafi to Secure Release

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  11. Libya's Ex-Minister Reportedly Claims Qaddafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing

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  1. Report: Evidence Used to Convict Libyan in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Was Tampered With

    A Swiss engineer has confessed to lying about a key piece of evidence used to convict a Libyan agent in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotlan...

  2. Lockerbie Bomber in Coma, Near Death, Brother Says

    The Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is in a coma and near death, his brother said Monday, insisting he should not return to prison for the 1998 bombing...

  3. Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi dies in Libya

    Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly th...

  4. Lockerbie bomber health deteriorating, says family

    The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing was taken to hospital on Saturday for a blood transfusion with his health deteri...

  5. Convicted Lockerbie bomber buried in Libya

    The only man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was buried Monday with little fanfare near the Libyan capital with just under 100 family members and passers-by...

  6. Lockerbie bomber Megrahi buried in Libya

    The only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been buried with little fanfare near the Libyan capital with just under 100 family members and passers-by in...

  7. Timeline of the Lockerbie Case

    Key events since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103:Dec. 21, 1988:  A bomb inside a Samsonite suitcase blows a hole in the fuselage of a Pan Am airliner as it fli...

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