The Lockerbie Case: An anniversary

Wednesday, 14 November 2007

An anniversary

Sixteen years ago today, in simultaneous announcements in Edinburgh and Washington DC, the Lord Advocate, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC (http://www.lordfraser.com/) and the Acting Attorney General of the United States, William Barr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr_(American_Attorney_General) disclosed that criminal proceedings had been launched against two Libyans, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhima, for the murder of the 270 people killed in the destruction of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.

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