Scottish Police Review Lockerbie Bombing Case
The worst terrorist attack on British soil is being reviewed by Scottish detectives as they continue to try to determine who else might have acted with the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, police and prosecutors said Sunday.
After Abdel Baset al-Megrahi dropped an appeal against his conviction earlier this year, a review of the evidence was undertaken, the head of the Dumfries and Galloway Police said in a statement.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC that the investigation into the December, 1988 attack — which killed 259 people, mostly Americans, in the air and another 11 on the ground — had never been formally closed, and said it was "wholly appropriate" for police to move forward if there were grounds.
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After Abdel Baset al-Megrahi dropped an appeal against his conviction earlier this year, a review of the evidence was undertaken, the head of the Dumfries and Galloway Police said in a statement.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC that the investigation into the December, 1988 attack — which killed 259 people, mostly Americans, in the air and another 11 on the ground — had never been formally closed, and said it was "wholly appropriate" for police to move forward if there were grounds.