Libyans Celebrate Freedom for Pan Am Bomber
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate at a Tripoli airport as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (AP)
Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate at a Tripoli airport as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (AP)
Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate at a Tripoli airport as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (AP)
Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate at a Tripoli airport as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (Reuters)
Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate at a Tripoli airport as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (Reuters)
Aug. 20: Libyans celebrate in the streets as the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (AP)
Aug. 20: A man waves a poster featuring the face of the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returns home, granted early release from Scottish prison after serving just 8 years of a life sentence. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who served roughly 11 days in prison for each of the 270 murders he was convicted for, was greeted as a returning hero in his native Libya. (AP)
August 20: A lone protester holds up a placard as a policeman looks on as the the police convoy with freed Libyan bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, leaves Greenock Prison. Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting him go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas to show no mercy to the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. (AP)