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Lockerbie bomber dead at last May 20th 2012, 13:22 Or so it seems http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...d-7769459.html Quote: The Foreign Office is investigating reports the Lockerbie bomber has died. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 59, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner which claimed 270 lives. He died at home after a long battle with cancer, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters news agency today... ...The bombing of the plane, travelling from London to New York four days before Christmas, killed all 259 people on board. Eleven residents of the Dumfries and Galloway town also died after the plane crashed down on their homes. It was Britain's biggest terrorist atrocity... ...He was freed from prison after serving nearly eight years of his sentence after he dropped his second appeal against conviction at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to allow Megrahi to return home to die in Libya sparked international condemnation from some relatives of victims and politicians, who demanded he be returned to jail.

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