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Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave, CNN has found.

CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip.

Al-Megrahi was released from the jail on compassionate grounds in 2009 after serving eight years of a 27-year sentence for his involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. All 259 passengers and crew aboard the plane, plus 11 people in the Scottish border town of Lockerbie, were killed. Ref. CNN

Al-megrahi Ali Abdelbasset Bomber Lockerbie

New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case:

Secret legal files and new evidence show that conviction in aircraft bombing case would likely have been overturned. Ref. Source 2

Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbasset Ali Al-megrahi History & Civil Business Politics

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has died, a spokesman for the Libyan foreign ministry said Sunday.

He was 60. He had returned to his native Libya after the Scottish government released him in 2009 on the grounds that he had cancer and was believed to have a short time to live. Ref. CNN

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Lockerbie bombing suspect of 1988 Pan Am flight is in U.S. Custody, says Justice Department. A Libyan man accused of making the bomb which destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody of U.S. Officials, according to the Department of Justice. At the time the charges were announced, then-Attorney General William Barr, who helped lead the initial investigation, said a "Breakthrough" in the case came in 2016. Source 3a.