'Eight Lockerbie suspects' investigated.Summary: A former head of the investigation into the Lockerbie Lockerbie (lŏk`ərbē), village (1991 pop. 3,892), Scotland, site of a 1988 airplane crash. On Dec. 21, 1988, a New York–bound Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight as a result of a terrorist bomb and crashed in and around Lockerbie. atrocity said authorities had wanted to speak to eight other potential suspects. A former head of the investigation into the Lockerbie atrocity said authorities had wanted to speak to eight other potential suspects in connection with the bombing. Stuart Henderson, a former detective chief superintendent Chief Superintendent is a senior rank in police forces organised on the British model. United Kingdom In the British police, a Chief Superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "Chief Super") is senior to a Superintendent and junior to an Assistant Chief Constable (or a with Lothian and Borders Police Lothian and Borders Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The force's headquarters are in Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh. , told the Scotsman newspaper that a list of people in Libya was identified by police investigating the 1988 bombing, but these people were never interviewed. It is reported the "high level" suspects were all male and have never been ruled out of the investigation into the explosion onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270 on December 21 1988. Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. To the north, it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England. Police has said officers were following new lines of inquiry after Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only man ever convicted of the bombing, dropped his appeal against conviction. The Crown Office stressed the case has never closed, but said any fresh lines of inquiry would not review evidence which convicted 57-year-old Megrahi, who has terminal cancer and was released from prison on compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: grounds in August. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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