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Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi released by Scotland

Rome, Italy - Hard reaction from the United States

Scotland has freed today Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, former Libyan intelligence agent condemned to life-imprisonment for the Lockerbie terrorist attack, when a bomb exploded on a Boeing 747/121 aircraft (Pan Am flight 103) on December 21, 1988, caused the death of 270 people, 11 of which on the ground. Most of the victims were Americans. The Scottish minister of justice ordered al-Megrahi's liberation...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1108391
Rome, Italy, 08/20/2009 17:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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