Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing (Lockerbie, Scotland | December 21, 1988)
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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 traveling from London Heathrow Airport to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, was destroyed in-flight over Lockerbie, Scotland when an improvised explosive device, concealed in the luggage, detonated. The explosion killed all 259 passengers and crew aboard, including 190 Americans, as well as 11 residents on the ground. The attack, planned and executed by Libyan intelligence operatives, was the largest terrorist attack on Americans prior to September 11, 2001. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom.
Immediately after the disaster, Scottish and American law enforcement undertook a joint investigation. In November 1991, authorities filed criminal charges in both the United States and Scotland against Libyan intelligence operatives Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah.
On January 31, 2001, al-Megrahi was convicted of all charges, and Fhimah was acquitted. Al-Megrahi received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. In August 2009, he was freed from prison on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Al-Megrahi died at his home in Libya in May 2012.
On December 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new charges against a former Libyan intelligence operative, Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir al-Marimi, for his role in the bombing.
