The Lockerbie Case: An anniversary

Friday, 14 November 2008

An anniversary

Seventeen years ago today, on 14 November 1991, the US Department of Justice announced that an indictment had been brought against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah for the murder of the 270 victims of the Lockerbie disaster. The Crown Office in Scotland simultaneously announced that a petition had been presented to the sheriff at Dumfries (the nearest court town to Lockerbie) charging the two Libyans with the murders and that warrants for their arrest had been granted. The Libyan Government was called upon to surrender the men for trial in Scotland or the United States.

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