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FILE - In this, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1988 file photo, a police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270 people. The family of a Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie bombing has lost an appeal in a court in Scotland on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 to have his conviction overturned posthumously. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder for the attack on Pan Am flight 103, which was traveling from London to New York on Dec. 21, 1988. The bombing killed all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground. Al-Megrahi was jailed for life, but the family of the former intelligence officer has long claimed his innocence. They plan to appeal to the U.K. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)

Lockerbie bomber family loses appeal to overturn conviction

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Convicted Lockerbie bomber’s family in new bid to clear name

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In this December 1988 file photo, a police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland, of Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York. Scotland's criminal appeals body said Wednesday, March 11, 2020, that the family of the Libyan man jailed for the 1988 bombing of an airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie can launch a posthumous appeal against his conviction. (AP Photo/File)

Family of man convicted of Lockerbie bombing can appeal

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FILE In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya. Relatives of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi say he was wrongly convicted of the airliner bombing, which killed 270 people. The family's lawyer, Aamer Anwar, handed a dossier of evidence to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in Glasgow on Tuesday July 4, 2017. The commission will decide whether to hand the case to an appeals court.(AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)

Lockerbie bomber’s family launches bid to appeal conviction

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By James Morrison - The Washington Times

This is an undated file photo, issued by the Crown Office, of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing. (Associated Press/Crown Office, File)

Senators to meet Cameron to discuss Libyan’s release

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times