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Lockerbie
/ ˈɒəɪ /
noun
- a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a jumbo jet was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town
Example Sentences
He previously worked as a prosecutor in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, where he was one of the prosecutors during the Lockerbie bombing trial which led to Abdelbaset al-Megrahi being convicted in 2001.
She was one of the first television journalists to arrive on the scene when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up above Lockerbie in 1988.
A Libyan writer and politician who published documents linking his country's intelligence service to the Lockerbie bombing has been arrested on national security charges.
A retired FBI special agent who led the agency's original investigation into the Lockerbie disaster has described the dossier as potential "dynamite."
The handwritten report is labelled "top secret" and dated 4 October 1988, with the sender given as the Information and Strategic Studies Centre in Tripoli, headed at the time by Abdelbasset Al-Megrahi, who was convicted over the Lockerbie bombing by a Scottish court in 2001.
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