Pan Am 103

Death Comes Too Late

Anthony Amore | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bomber, El-Megrahi-Dead-Lockerbie, Pan Am 103, Lockerbie Bomber Dead, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi Dead, World News

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence agent who was found guilty in 2001 of orchestrating the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, is finally dead.

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PHOTOS: Pan Am And The Golden Age Of Travel

Posted 11.21.2011

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From the 1920's until its demise in 1991, Pan American Airlines symbolized all that was luxurious in air travel. Elite fliers packed some of the first...

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Christina Ricci: 'Pan Am' Is Different From 'Mad Men'

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Pan Am, Pan Am Show, Pan-Am-Abc-Television-Series, Pan Am 103, Christina Ricci, Abc, Christina-Ricci-Pan-Am, Entertainment News

There are a lot of reasons to be excited for fall's new TV lineup. But for those who have a serious case of nostalgia are most curious about the arriv...

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Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Eichmann -- and Revenge

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Pakistan, Mossad, President Obama, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Tit for Tat, Osama Bin Laden, The Rule of Law, Saddam Hussein, Vengeance, Adolf Eichmann, Revenge, President Bush, Israel, Justice, An Eye for an Eye, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Pan Am 103, World News

Did Eichmann and Hussein receive true justice by appearing in courts of law and sentenced to death under the rule of law? Was Osama bin Laden notably and unceremoniously treated to a revenge killing for his crimes?

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Double Deja Vu

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Pan Am 103, Politics News

The problem with nuclear power is not simply one of safety. It is one more of economics. So long as we depend on OPEC oil supplies, OPEC can drop its prices and make plant investments uneconomic overnight.

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Lockerbie Widow: Libyan Defector Shouldn't Get Immunity

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The wife of a Justice Department special agent killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 said she doesn’t believe officials in B...

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Cagey Obama -- He Waited and Waited, Then He Struck With Fury Against the Baddest Barbary Pirate of Them All

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Hillary, Samantha Power, Gadaffi, Granada, Libya, Lockerbie, Obama, Benghazi, Barbary Pirates, Pan Am 103, Politics News

Speak softly and carry a big stick. Twenty four hours after a start to bombing in Libya and it was all but over. A week later and we are handing the mop up operations to NATO and the Europeans.

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Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Let's by God hear it for cowboy decision-making! We've taken over Iraq, and already we're scaring other Muslim potentates into submission. It's that easy.

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WATCH: Former Bush Official Calls Obama Response To Libya 'Too Slow'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration official known as one of the key architects of the Iraq war, has been sharply criticizing t...

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CON GAMES: Gaddafi's Lockerbie Hoax

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Gaddafi, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Pan Am 103, Libya, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, World News

We kid ourselves that justice has been done. But what would the families of the Lockerbie dead say about what happened?

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BP Alleged Involvement in Lockerbie Terrorist Release Accelerates

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Megrahi, Bp, United Kingdom, Heathrow Airport, President Barack Obama, Politics, Scotland, William Haig, Lockerbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, British Petroleum, Prime Minister David Cameron, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, London, John Kerry, Pan Am 103, Sir Mark Allen, BP Oil Spill, Dalia Advisory Limited, Libya, Breaking Politics News, Lockerbie, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Pan Am, Tripoli, World News

BP, facing mounting claims that it is not handling damage payments for the oil spill, is likely to face significant wrath from the Senate and the White House if the controversy over their involvement in Megrahi's release intensifies.

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Orphaned by Job Loss: Voices of Pan Am

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011

In this, the last blog of my series, I hope to leave my readers with more understanding of the possible impact of traumatic loss of a company like Pan Am on employees.

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Orphaned by Job Loss: Pan Am Soaring Downward

Helen Davey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Pan American World Airways, Pan Am Clippers, Traumatic Loss, Corporate Meltdown, Economic Collapse, Job Loss, Trauma, Economy, Pan Am 103, Global Job Loss, Loss, Juan Trippe, Orphaned, Pan Am, Airlines, Los Angeles News

People often ask, "What happened to Pan Am?" It was the airline that rose the highest and had the farthest to fall. As you will see, there was not one single cause.

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Orphaned By Job Loss: The Rise And Fall Of Pan Am And The Traumatic Impact On Its Employees

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Job Loss, Traumatic Loss, Trauma, Pan Am 103, Economic Collapse, Corporate Meltdown, Loss, Juan Trippe, Airlines, Orphaned, Economy, Healthy Living News

Fasten your seatbelts: in this three-part series, I'm going to tell you the story of the rise and fall of Pan Am, and perhaps you will benefit from hearing about the painful impact of the fall on its employees and how we survived this trauma.

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Lockerbie Bomber Missing: Al-Megrahi Can't Be Reached, Reports Times

Posted 05.25.2011

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UK authorities do not know where convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi is. According to The Times, the Libyan national convicted of in...

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'Flaws' In Key Lockerbie Evidence

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi....

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Ethical Explosion Over Scotland

Gloria Duffy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scotland, Terrorist, Libya, Lockerbie Bomber, Compassionate Release, Ethics, Pan Am 103, World News

The Scots made a moral tradeoff in the wrong direction by releasing the Lockerbie bomber. Here are just a few of the flaws in the thinking behind this decision.

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Muammar Qadaffi -- The Great Survivor

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Britain, Ronald Reagan, France, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Lockerbie, Sdece, Pan Am 103, Scotland, Iran, Navy, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Vincennes, Benghazi, Politics News

Rather than the "mad dog" he was called by Reagan, Muammar Qaddafi is far better described as a cross between a cat with nine lives and a sly fox.

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The Truth About Lockerbie May Now Never Come Out Thanks to Gordon Brown's Thirst for Libyan Oil

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megrahi's release and hero's welcome in Libya, along with the leak of two letters from Britain's justice minister, have prompted calls for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop evading the issue.

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Lockerbie Outrage Continues: Just follow the Stench of Oil

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Al-Megrahi, Pan Am 103, Scotland, Libya, Lockerbie, Khadafi, Times of London, Terrorism, World News, World News

Another media report from Scotland raises the question as to whether doctors who promoted release of the mass murderer may have been paid by the Libyans.

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Terrorists Who Don't Face Justice: A Disappointing Trend

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Crime, Terrorism, Rule of Law, Pan Am 103, World News

As the 'Lockerbie bomber' suns himself amid cheers in Tripoli, an examination of the outcomes of other cases of terrorism against Americans over the last century yields its own pattern of disappointments.

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Congressman On Gaddafi: Keep This "Psychopath" Out Of My State

The Daily Beast | Lloyd Grove | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Steve Rothman, Democrat of New Jersey, has a message for Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi: Stay the hell out of the 9th Congressional District. In f...

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The Lockerbie Trial: A Unique Moment in International Justice and Diplomacy

Cynthia P. Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

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The understandable outrage at the release of Megrahi should not overshadow the memory of the trial that brought him to justice.

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Libyan Oil Is Thicker Than American Blood

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scotland, Oil, British, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Pan Am 103, World News

The pretext "compassion" for the allegedly terminally ill Libyan prisoner, barely disguised the real reason -- oil buried deep in the Libyan sand.

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Salt in Their Wounds

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Libya, Syracuse University, Lockerbie Bomber Released, S.I. Newhouse School, Terrorism, Pan Am 103, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, New York News

I can't imagine what it must have been like for the families of the 35 Syracuse University students to get the news that Pan Am Flight 103 had exploded over the tiny Scottish town of Lockerbie.

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