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Pan Am Flight 103

24 Years Later, Remembering Pan Am Flight 101

Claudia Helena Oxee | Posted 02.20.2013 | Travel
Read More: Airline Crashes, Pan Am Flight 103, Air Travel Nightmares, Lockerbie Bombing, Travel News
Claudia Helena Oxee

Dec. 21, 1988 was the day the airport lounge was transformed from an opulent inner sanctum for the privileged first class passenger to an urbane chamber of horrors for the next of kin. As an airline agent, inner strength and numbness enabled me to carry out my duties without falling apart as I confirmed these families' worst nightmare.

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U.S. Says No Plans To Tie Libya Aid To Lockerbie Bomber Case

AP | By MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.31.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Chuck Schumer, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Pan Am Flight 103, Charles Schumer, Gaddafi, Lockerbie Bomber Case, Libya, Video, Lockerbie Bomber, Libya Rebels, Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan Rebels, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, World News

By MATTHEW LEE, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Wednesday it will continue to press Libyan rebels to review t...

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Lockerbie Bomber's Family Remaining In Libya: Neighbor

AP | Posted 10.27.2011 | World
Read More: Abdel-Baset Al-Megrahi, Libya, Lockerbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, Tripoli, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, Libya Uprising, Libya Protests, World News

TRIPOLI, Libya — No one answered the door Saturday at the Lockerbie bomber's Tripoli villa, hidden behind tall walls in an upscale neighborhood ...

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Andrea Stone

Lockerbie Widow: Libyan Defector Shouldn't Get Immunity

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.31.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie Bombing, Libya Defector Prosecution, Libya Defector, Stephanie Bernstein Libya Defector, Stephanie Bernstein Moussa Koussa, Libya War, David Cameron Libya Defector, Megrahi Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Moussa Koussa, Pan Am 103 Survivors, Muammar Gaddafi Lockerbie, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Stephanie Bernstein Lockerbie, Moussa Koussa Prosecution, Libya News, Libya Defector Moussa Koussa, David Cameron Moussa Koussa, Muammar Gaddafi, Pan Am 103, Libya Defector Koussa, Muammar Gaddafi Moussa Koussa, Lockerbie Survivors, Lockerbie Victims, Libya Lockerbie, Libya Protests, World News

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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U.S. Official Warns Of Libyan-Backed Terrorist Attacks

The New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Mustard-Gas, Brennan Center for Justice, Yemen, William J. Brennan Jr., Middle East Protests, Tunisia, Terrorism, John Brennan, Pan Am Flight 103, Terrorist Attacks, Al Qaeda, Gaddafi, Libya, North Africa, Muammar Gaddafi, Counterterrorism, Egypt, Scotland, Libyan Rebels, New York University, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Libya Protests, World News

The United States is bracing for possible Libyan-backed terrorist attacks, President Obama's top counterterrorism official said on Friday....

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Amanda Terkel

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bush Libya, Libya Nuclear Weapons, Libyan Leader, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, Paul Wolfowitz George Bush, Paul Wolfowitz Obama, Gaddafi, Paul Wolfowitz, Libya, Libya News, Video, Bush Gaddafi, Obama Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Moammar Gaddafi, Paul Wolfowitz Libya, Pan Am 103, Libya Protests, Politics News

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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UK Government Reportedly Did 'All It Could' To Help Free Lockerbie Bomber

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Gus O'Donnell, Pan Am Flight 103, UK, Britain, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Bp, David Cameron, World News

LONDON — Britain's previous government did "all it could" to help Libya win the release of the only man convicted of the Pan Am bombing in Scotl...

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BP Alleged Involvement in Lockerbie Terrorist Release Accelerates

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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
Brian Ross

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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'Flaws' In Key Lockerbie Evidence

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Terrorism, Pan Am 103, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Scotland, World News

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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Specter of Forced Repatriation

Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pmoi, Camp Ashraf, Mek, Geneva Conventions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojahedin-E-Khalq, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Indyk, Dell Dailey, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, State Department, Mohammed Khatami, World News
Allan Gerson

The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.

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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered

Nick Turse | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber, My Lai, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, World News
Nick Turse

A week ago, two convicted mass murderers leaped back into public consciousness as news coverage of their stories briefly intersected. One was freed from prison, the other expressed his contrition.

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This Democrat Is Disappointed With His President and His Party

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Florida Recount, Bill Clinton, Illegal Torture, President Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, CIA Torture, Valerie Plame, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.

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Another Reason for a Truth Commission

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Lockerbie, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Politics News
Byron Williams

Don't the families of the victims of Iraq and the war on terror, and the nation as a whole, deserve a collective truth for the worst foreign policy blunder in our history?

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Lockerbie Bomber To Be Released, Say Reports

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bomber, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi Trial, Edinburgh, Scotland, Pan Am Flight 103, Crime, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi Released, Megrahi, Panam Bomber Released Abdel, World News

EDINBURGH, Scotland — A decision has been reached in the case of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and will be announced Thursday, the Sco...

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Lockerbie Bomber Drops Second Appeal

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bombing, Scottish Prison, Lockerbie-Appeal, Scotland, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie-Bomb-Conviction, Cancer, Lockerbie Pan Am, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Scotland, World News

EDINBURGH, Scotland — The sole man found guilty in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie is dropping his appeal against conviction, his lawye...

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Remembering Lockerbie (Audio Slideshow)

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lockerbie, Libya, Lockerbie Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103, Pan Am 103, Remembering Lockerbie, World News

The quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie was brought suddenly and shockingly to the world's attention on a wintry evening 20 years ago....

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Lockerbie Bombing: Families React To Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi's Possible Release

The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Terrorism, Scotland Bombing, Pan Am, Libyan Relations, Libyan Terrorist, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie Scotland, Libya, Remember Lockerbie, 1988, Lockerbie Bomb Victims, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, Libya Bombing, 1988 Lockerbie, Lockerbie Release, World News

Emotions are running high among the families of the Lockerbie bomb victims over news that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi may be released early on compassio...

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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, "Lockerbie Bomber" Of Pan Am Flight 103, To Be Set Free (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Libya, Terrorism, Pan Am Bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, Lockberbie Bomber, Pan Am Flight 103, Airplane Bombing, Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie Scotland, Muammar Gaddafi, Slideshow, New York News

After days of speculation, SkyNews is reporting that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, will be ...

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