When was lockerbie bombing

All were killed, along with 11 residents of Lockerbie, Scotland. What seemed at first like a horrific accident was soon proven to be the result of a terrorist bomb planted in a radio-cassette recorder inside a suitcase in the forward cargo hold. They were risk takers, dreamers, planners, leaders. They stimulated their teachers to work harder and be smarter. They wanted more than a simple education. They were willing to try the new and the different. They were cherished by their families and friends.

And with terrifying suddenness, they were gone. As swiftly as a thought of death, it was harsh reality, a reality that became far too common in our time. The US and Libya were collaborating on the case, she said, and it was progressing. Mr Masud is a former Libyan intelligence official who is currently in a Libyan prison having been convicted on unrelated charges. He has been charged in the US with terrorism-related crimes.

US officials claim he helped build the bomb which downed the aircraft, and set the timer. Much has changed in Libya since the Lockerbie bombing. Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by rebels in and the country has been beset by unrest since then. Elections in left the country split, with rival centres of power in Benghazi in the east and Tripoli in the west. However, Mr Masud also allegedly said in his Libyan jailhouse interview that his fellow intelligence operative Megrahi was his co-conspirator in the bomb plot.

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