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 Pan Am Flight 103 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known as the Lockerbie bombing and the Lockerbie air disaster in the UK, it became the subject of Britain's largest criminal inquiry, led by its smallest police force, Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.
It was widely regarded as an assault on a symbol of the United States, and with 189 of the victims being Americans, it stood as the deadliest attack on American civilians until September 11, 2001.
The pressure control and fuel switches were both set for cruise, and the crew had not used their oxygen masks, which would have descended within five seconds of a rapid depressurization of the airplane (Cox and Foster 1992).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103   (6218 words)

  
 Lockerbie Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
Lockerbie is the first large town north of the Scottish Border on the main road and rail routes from Carlisle to Glasgow.
Lockerbie's main period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made plots of land available along the line of the High Street, producing in effect a semi-planned settlement.
By 1750 Lockerbie had become a significant town, and from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage route from Glasgow to London.
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /lockerbie/lockerbie   (763 words)

  
 CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Lockerbie Trial
As it turned out, 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed on the ground as debris, body parts and fire rained from the sky when the ill-fated Boeing 747 exploded in mid-air.
Lockerbie had the bad luck to be at the end of the trajectory when a bomb blew the plane apart at 31,000 feet.
Christmas was called off that year in Lockerbie as the bodies came in from the morgue to a local church, and the relatives came in grief and in fury.
edition.cnn.com /LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0010/lockerbie/remember.html   (616 words)

  
 Charles Warner Lockerbie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lockerbie was a charter member of the Utah Audubon Society, served four terms as its president, and in the 1950s was given the title of honorary president.
For many years Lockerbie organized the annual Audubon Christmas bird count, an event that documents changes in the bird populations of the United States by sending birders out to identify and enumerate bird species in the same area year after year.
Lockerbie's interest in minerals and geology led him to study Utah mining, and he became an expert in the history of the Alta, Big Cottonwood, Park City, Mercur, and Ophir mining districts.
historytogo.utah.gov /people/utahns_of_achievement/charleswarnerlockerbie.html   (575 words)

  
 Shadow Over Lockerbie
In 1989 and 1990, Lockerbie investigators were talking with near-certainty, not about a Libyan plot, but one by another set of suspects: the Iranian government headed by Ayatollah Khomeini, and a Syria-based terrorist organization headed by a notorious terrorist named Ahmed Jibril.
Pressed to respond to that kind of characterization, former Lockerbie investigators retreat to broad assertions that the evidence is in fact strong, despite appearances to the contrary.
Lockerbie investigators showed little interest in the Semtex at the time, Grech says - and appropriately, he adds, since in his view there is no evidence whatever linking that found explosive to the Lockerbie bombing or the Libyan defendants.
americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/lockerbie/story/printable_story.html   (8437 words)

  
 LOCKERBIE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The wings impacted at the southern edge of Lockerbie, producing a crater whose volume, calculated from a photogrammetric survey, was approximately 560 cubic metres.
Of the several large pieces of aircraft wreckage which fell in the town of Lockerbie, one was seen to have the appearance of a ball of fire with a trail of flame.
Stations close to Lockerbie recorded a seismic event measuring 1.6 on the Richter scale and, with appropriate corrections for the times of the waves to reach the sensors, it was established that this occurred at 19.03:36.5 hrs ±1 second.
members.aol.com /seaeje/PA103/report.htm   (13536 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Lockerbie
THE Lockerbie trial was one of the most complicated to have been held anywhere in the world.
ONE of the key architects of the Lockerbie trial has vowed to continue his fight to have the...
THE Lockerbie bomber should be allowed to return to Libya to serve the remainder of his sentence...
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=184   (507 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: Lockerbie
June 1 2004: The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has been granted leave to appeal against his 27-year sentence, it was announced yesterday.
March 31: Tony Blair has agreed to meet with the relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims, after they complained he was only 'paying lip service' to their worries that the full story of the terrorist atrocity had yet to be uncovered.
November 25: The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was told yesterday that he must spend at least 27 years in prison for his part in Britain's worst terrorist atrocity.
www.guardian.co.uk /Lockerbie/0,2759,431005,00.html   (509 words)

  
 Lockerbie on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lockerbie après l'attentat Le décor du dernier acte de la tragédie de Lockerbie (270 morts en 1988) se met en place lundi.
Lockerbie après l'attentat La Grande-Bretagne doit déposer lundi en fin de journée devant le Conseil de sécurité des Natio.
Lockerbie après l'attentat Aux termes de l'accord intervenu lundi dernier à Londres entre la Grande Bretagne et les Etats-.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lockerbi.asp   (1348 words)

  
 Libya: The Lockerbie Legality
The Lockerbie case presents a genuine case of both simple criminal procedure according to general rules in international criminal laws, and at the same time strong indications of a political involvement and involvement of tools, normally only used in political, international affairs.
The US+UK-points of view in the Lockerbie case are, that they consider the two accused Libyan citizens to have acted as government-agents for Libya, thus placing the responsibility for the criminal act in the hands of the Libyan government, making the Lockerbie case an issue for the United Nations Security Council.
This modification, as seen in the light of the Lockerbie Case, could avoid any inhability or incompetence problems, and avoid parties in a conflict to gain their favored outcome, political outcome that is, under the false pretext or at the cost of legality, including the legality of international criminal law.
www.libyanet.com /lockerbi.htm   (12556 words)

  
 BBC News | LOCKERBIE TRIAL | Police in the Lockerbie frontline
Schools in Lockerbie were on holiday at the time of the explosion and on 22 December a temporary incident control centre was set up in the town's academy.
The first back-up officers arrived at Lockerbie on the evening of the crash, and the next morning instead of the four officers who would normally have been on duty in the Lockerbie area, there were approximately 1100 police officers and 1000 military personnel.
On 23 December, 1029 police officers were on duty around Lockerbie and an average of 1043 police were involved on a daily basis during the first week of the operation.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/1144167.stm   (1107 words)

  
 Libya - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Libya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The USA linked Khaddhafi to worldwide terrorist activities, despite his denials of complicity, and the killing of a US soldier in a bomb attack in Berlin in 1986 by an unidentified guerrilla group prompted a raid by US aircraft, some of them British-based, on Tripoli and Benghazi.
Libyan terrorists were also blamed for the bombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, which killed 270 people; and for the 1989 bombing of UTA (Union de Transports Aérians) Flight 772 over Niger.
In January 1989 he did not retaliate when two fighter jets were shot down over the Mediterranean off Libya by the US Navy, and appeared to be moving towards improving external relations, effecting a reconciliation with Egypt in October 1989.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Libya   (1122 words)

  
 lockerbie
Surrounding parcels of real estate, including the area north of old Germantown, now known as "Lockerbie Square," were platted as German immigrants filled up the blocks to the south with their wood-frame cottages and gardens.
It is located in today's Lockerbie Square Secondary Area, which almost encircles the Lockerbie Square Historic Core, and is composed of nine subdivisions platted between 1845 and ca.
Lockerbie Square succeeded Germantown as the cradle of German Indianapolis.
www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/lockerbie.html   (981 words)

  
 Market Sectors - Lockerbie and Hole, Mechanical, Electrical, Contractor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lockerbie has installed carbon/stainless steel and polyethylene pipe for potable, cooling, sludge, sanitary and firewater services and natural gas, ethane, nitrogen and phosphate services.
Lockerbie's qualified team of construction specialists have built incineration facilities, water and wastewater plants, soils reclamation plants, wet oxidation and thermophilic plants.
Lockerbie and Hole is not only highly regarded by owners and developers of real estate, but is widely respected by major institutions such as all levels of government, universities, hospitals, and airport authorities.
www.lockerbiehole.com /market_sectors.html   (2418 words)

  
 The Zionist Bombing of Pan American Flight 103, Lockerbie, December 1988
The start of the Lockerbie Trial was heralded not by intelligent comments from learned counsel as you might normally expect, but by a blast of carefully-orchestrated emotion from the western media.
This was a defining moment in the Lockerbie Trial, which is not about guilt or innocence at the public level, but about the media's ability to work miracles with the human mind on behalf of the lobbies.
This week, British agencies tasked with the scientific evaluation of the Lockerbie crash site and debris, confirmed their appalling track record of failing to properly test vital components of "the bomb", or what they claim was the bomb.
www.vialls.com /zionist/lockerbie.html   (10843 words)

  
 The Lockerbie Bombing
But on the night of the Lockerbie bombing, thirteen years ago, death struck in the quiet of a Scottish winter.
Burning debris rained down on Lockerbie, a small town of about 5,000 homes, creating a swathe of destruction through houses and surrounding countryside.
Wreckage was spread over 130 kilometres (81 miles) and, in Lockerbie, part of the plane created a massive crater, 47 metres (155 feet) broad and (59 metres) 196 feet long.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_scotland/80286   (521 words)

  
 The Lockerbie Bombing and the USS Vincennes
The trial of the two Libyan "suspects" in the Lockerbie bombing case finally opened in the Netherlands on May 3rd, 2000.
Lockerbie farmer Jim Wilson found a suitcase full of cellophane packets containing white powder among the debris in his fields.
The suitcase was taken away, no explanation was given, and the authorities continued to insist that no drugs (apart from a small quantity of cannabis) had been found on the plane.
www.serendipity.li /more/lockerb.htm   (1506 words)

  
 Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict politically motivated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the agreement of the defence and prosecution, the case was heard without a jury before a bench of three Scottish judges.
It is against this political background that the Lockerbie investigation and eventual trial must be evaluated.
Resolving the outstanding issue of Lockerbie became essential for the US and Britain if they were not to be left out of the rich pickings now being made available in Libya, a country whose oil reserves are equivalent to those of the US.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/feb2001/lock-f07.shtml   (1636 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Libya agrees Lockerbie compensation payout
Lockerbie bomber to be told length of jail term
Libya will pay $10m (£6.3m) to each of the 270 victims of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing after accepting civil responsibility for the blast, the country's foreign minister, Abdel Rahman Shalgham, said today.
They also said that Tripoli was prepared to assume limited responsibility for the downing of Pan Am flight 103, something it has previously refused to do.
www.guardian.co.uk /Lockerbie/Story/0,2763,945922,00.html   (305 words)

  
 Lockerbie Golf Club - Official Web Site
Lockerbie Golf Club, founded in 1890, is an 18 hole parkland course situated south of the Annandale Hills, with breathtaking views extending over the Lake District and west to Dumfries.
The presence of water hazards on 3 holes, as well as some tricky par 3's demands accuracy from the golfer, with uphill and downhill lies creating problems on a number of other holes.
Lockerbie Golf Club offers full bar and catering facilities and special rates for group bookings can be arranged.
lockerbiegolf.rjbnet.org.uk /index.php   (192 words)

  
 Defense in Lockerbie Trial Undermines a Key Witness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
•The residents of the Scottish town of Lockerbie say they are relieved that two Libyans accused of blowing up a jumbo jet over the village in 1988 have finally gone on trial.
AMP ZEIST, the Netherlands, Sept. 27 — In an atmosphere so hostile that the witness's fear could be heard even in the voices of his translators, the testimony of the most important witness in the Lockerbie trial was systematically torn to pieces by defense lawyers today.
After his case officers, eager to get rid of him, explained how important his shipboard meeting with the F.B.I. would be, "this deafening silence on the subject ends the very next day, when you come up with a brown Samsonite suitcase and this rubbish about Customs," Mr.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/locktr.htm   (1323 words)

  
 CNN.com Specials
As the Libyan found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing loses his appeal of his conviction and 20-year sentence, our special section examines the key facts in the case.
The Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has lost his appeal.
Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was jailed for life for his part in the bombing which killed 259 people on board Pan AM flight 103 and 11 people on the ground in the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
www.cnn.com /LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0010/lockerbie   (115 words)

  
 "Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer Deposition" (4 December 1998)
Lindauer says that she has been subject to intense surveillance, threats, and attacks since she began meeting with Libyan officials in 1995 to discuss her knowledge of the Lockerbie bombing.
And so let it be understood by the court: I make these statements of my own free will, out of respect to my own conscience and sense of obligation as a world citizen.
Then he jumped into the Lockerbie case by way of example of unsolved bombing cases that he said has the immediate capability to resolve.
www.meib.org /articles/0007_me2.htm   (1868 words)

  
 Lockerbie -- CIA witness gagged by US government
A FORMER CIA agent who claims Libya is not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is being gagged by the US government under state secrecy laws and faces 10 years in prison if he reveals any information about the terrorist attack.
Lindauer said Fuisz told her he could provide information on Middle Eastern terrorists, and referred to Lockerbie as an "example of an unsolved bombing case that he said he has the immediate capability to resolve".
Lindauer also refers in her affidavit to speculation that the USA shifted any connection to Lockerbie away from Syria to Libya in return for its support during the Gulf war.
www.geocities.com /cpa_blacktown/20000601alocktshuk.htm   (934 words)

  
 Trafford Publishing: The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective's Tale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is an insider's view of 'the Lockerbie incident' - who did what and when.
It disintegrated into half a dozen echoes as it spiralled to the ground, spilling its occupants, dancing a reel of death in the Scottish sky.
The break-up took place over the little market town of Lockerbie, which nestled in the gentle rolling hills of the Scottish borders.
www.trafford.com /robots/02-0619.html   (922 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Lockerbie - Libya takes back its £500m fund for Lockerbie bereaved
The money was removed from an escrow account in Switzerland last week by the Libyan central bank, in protest at the US State Department’s refusal to remove Libya from a list of states considered to support international terrorism.
And Marjory McQueen, a Lockerbie councillor who has sometimes spoken for the British families, said that the final sum paid to them was not important.
Lockerbie bomber to be sued for damages (07-Jul-04)
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=184&id=380332005   (403 words)

  
 The New World Order  Rule Of Injustice
The Pan Am 103 plane shot down over Lockerbie in December 1988, with 259 victims, was almost surely targeted under Iranian auspices in retaliation for the destruction of the Iran Airbus 655, with 290 civilian victims, by the USS Vincennes in July 1988.
Early in the investigation of the Lockerbie shootdown, the Iran connection was clear and the Iranian instrument was seen to be a noted terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), led by Ahmed Jibril.
The editors go on, “The Lockerbie prosecutors were hampered by having no witnesses who saw either defendant actually put the suitcase bomb on board the plane.” Again, a small lie, in that no witness linked them to the suitcase, the bomb, or the airport; “hampered” is a substitute for acknowledging lack of evidence.
www.zmag.org /ZMag/Articles/dec01herman.htm   (2727 words)

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