I thought the Lockerbie bombing was a closed case until I started asking questions
Almost four decades on, there's fresh evidence.
- ▪Almost four decades on, there's fresh evidence.
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I thought the Lockerbie bombing was a closed case until I started asking questionsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Officials inspect the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988ByMyles BonnarBBC DisclosurePublished10 minutes agoI was only a year old when the UK's deadliest terror attack shocked the world.In December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 on the ground.I was a teenager by the time Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001 and, when he later died, I thought that was largely the end of the story.It wasn't.The case still rumbles on and, later this year, a man suspected of making the bomb which blew up the plane, Abu Agila Masud, goes on…
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