Thursday, February 08, 2001, updated at 19:38(GMT+8)
World
Convicted Lockerbie Bomber Appeals
A Libyan intelligence agent on Wednesday filed an appeal of his murder conviction in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. A lawyer for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi lodged the notice of intention to appeal at the Scottish High Court in Edinburgh, the Scottish Courts Service said.
Al-Megrahi, 48, was sentenced to life in prison Jan. 31 for his part in the bombing of a New York-bound flight which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988.