Lockerbie Bomber Loses Appeal in Netherlands

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Lockerbie Bomber Loses Appeal in Netherlands

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Libyan man Abdel Basset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who tried to overturn a Scottish court conviction of life imprisonment for his role in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, lost his appeal in the Zeist Camp in the Netherlands Thursday, local television reported.

Five Scottish appeals judges delivered the verdict after agreeing to see more evidence from both sides. Therefore, the Libyan is set to serve his term in a prison in Glasgow, Scotland.

Under the verdict, which took two minutes to read, the 48-year- old Libyan would face no more legal actions for his alleged involvement in the bombing of Pan-American Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, which killed 259 passengers and crew members on board and 11 people on the ground.

Scores of relatives of the victims of the air crash waited outside the court for the final decision on the case.

Al-Megrahi was convicted on January 31, 2001, but his legal team considered the ruling unjust and lodged an appeal soon afterward. The appeals court opened in January this year and the verdict date was set for early March.

The prosecution maintained that al-Megrahi, who worked at Malta 's Luqa Airport, was an agent for the Libyan intelligence service and that he had been seen buying clothes that were found in the suitcase containing the bomb.

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