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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
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.
Another appears to detail the transfer of 10kg of explosives to an office in Malta, staffed by Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah, the Libyan who was cleared at the first Lockerbie trial.
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