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France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy (C), with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence, on October 21, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
October 21, 2025, 12:08 pm
Ex-French president Sarkozy starts 5-year prison sentence over funds from Gaddafi scandal
Sarkozy to be held in isolation, will get 3 visits a week, prison officials say; supporters gather outside former leader’s home, as he maintains his innocence in affair
By Nicolas Gaudichet and Phenix Kim
This combination of pictures shows (L to R) Libya's Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah speaking in Tunisia's capital Tunis on November 30, 2022; and CIA director William Burns speaking during a visit to agency headquarters on the 75th anniversary of its founding in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022. (Fethi Belaid and Samuel Corum/AFP)
January 13, 2023, 12:30 am
CIA chief makes rare visit to Libya after suspected Lockerbie bombmaker extradited
Tripoli-based government, one of two rival administrations vying for control of country, says William Burns held talks with PM during trip
By AP
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, alleged to have made the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, with the loss of 270 lives in 1988, in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, December 12, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
December 18, 2022, 6:02 am
Libyan militia held suspected Lockerbie bombmaker before he was handed over to US
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, was captured in mid-November nighttime raid in Tripoli, Libyan officials reveal
By Samy Magdy
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, alleged to have made the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, with the loss of 270 lives in 1988, in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, December 12, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
December 13, 2022, 12:42 am
Lockerbie bombing suspect to face charges in US federal court
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, a longtime explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, admitted in 2012 to building the bomb that took down Pan Am Flight 103
By Eric Tucker
FILE - Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. The plane crashed two days before, killing more than 270 people. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)
December 12, 2022, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 12: Justice for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing at last?
Editor David Horovitz on today’s Knesset agenda and Thursday’s live-streamed event, ‘Israel’s Judiciary: Reform or Ruin?’; health reporter Nathan Jeffay on the winter ‘tripledemic’
By ToI Staff
In this Nov. 14, 1991, file photo, then-Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller points to a photo of the reconstructed wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. (AP/Barry Thumma)
December 12, 2022, 2:30 am
Lockerbie bomb suspect announcement puts spotlight back on decades-old investigation
US authorities have long pursued those behind 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, though only sought Abu Agila Mas’ud after he admitted to building explosive following 2017 arrest in Libya
By ADAM GELLER
Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. (Dave Caulkin/AP)
December 11, 2022, 6:24 pm
After 34 years, US says Libyan who built deadly Lockerbie plane bomb in custody
Justice Department gives no details on how it detained Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, wanted for alleged part in 1988 downing of Pan Am flight over Scotland that killed 270
By AP and ToI Staff
In this December 22, 1988 file photo police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland. In 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground. (AP Photo/File)
January 15, 2021, 5:05 pm
Scottish court upholds conviction of Lockerbie bomber, family to appeal
Family of ex-Libyan intel officer wants UK to declassify documents said to allege that Iran used a Palestinian proxy to build bomb that downed the 747 jet, killing 270 people
By STUART GRAHAM
John Holt
January 3, 2021, 9:46 am
John Holt
I’m a former CIA agent: Iran was behind Lockerbie and should be made to pay
Despite former US AG Barr’s claims, Libya did not carry out the horrific 1988 bombing of a plane over Scotland. The US should bring Iran to justice now
Hours after the event, policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. (Roy Letkey/AFP)
December 30, 2020, 4:02 pm
UK opposed US push to expand Gaddafi sanctions over Lockerbie — records
Newly released documents show British government worried that increasing UN sanctions on Libya in the 1990s would negatively impact UK exports to the North African country
By Anna MALPAS
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference, December 21, 2020, at the Justice Department in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)
December 21, 2020, 8:55 pm
US Justice Department charges bombmaker in 1988 Lockerbie plane attack
AG William Barr says Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, the ‘man responsible’ for airline bombing that killed 270, will finally be ‘subject to justice for his crimes’
By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO
A policeman walking away from the damaged cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, with 259 passengers on board, December 22, 1988. (ROY LETKEY/AFP)
November 26, 2020, 10:26 pm
Posthumous appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction ends; judges mull ruling
Justices say will issue decision as soon as possible on Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi, whose family insists he was innocent of airline bombing that killed 270
By AFP and ToI Staff
British lawyer Aamer Anwar (C) arrives with members of his team to take part on the opening day of a posthumous appeal against the conviction of Libyan Abdelbaset Mohmet al-Megrahi for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie. (Andy Buchanan / AFP)
November 26, 2020, 4:10 pm
Evidence against Lockerbie bomber ‘virtually of no value,’ lawyer tells court
Posthumous defense team claims key testimony linking Libyan found guilty of 1988 attack that killed 270 was collected in a ‘highly prejudicial’ way that led to false identification
By AFP
Hours after the event, policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. (Roy Letkey/AFP)
November 26, 2020, 12:12 pm
Who made the bomb? The full truth about Lockerbie is still not being told
As relatives of the 1 man convicted for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 try to posthumously clear him, potentially crucial evidence of a Palestinian terrorist’s role is again withheld
By David Horovitz
Hours after the event, policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. (Roy Letkey/AFP)
November 24, 2020, 6:07 pm
Appeal to posthumously clear Lockerbie bomber begins in Scotland
Family of Libyan found guilty of 1988 attack that killed 270 believes sealed documents thought to implicate Jordanian intel agent in the PFLP-GC are key to overturning conviction
By STUART GRAHAM
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