Search crews have located wreckage from Egypt Air Flight 804; though the investigation is in its nascent phase, Egyptian officials believe that the aircraft’s destruction is likely due to terrorist activity. We hold the 66 victims and their loved ones in our thoughts.
Though a second trial is far from a certainty, outgoing Scottish lord advocate Frank Mulholland expressed his hope that 2 additional Libyan suspects could be extradited eventually: “I hope that the Libyans will grant permission for that to be done. I obviously can’t say too much publicly but a lot of work is going on…
On January 19, 1989, over 10,000 family members, friends, and classmates gathered to mourn and remember the 35 students enrolled in Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad who were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. In the closing moments of the service, Chancellor Melvin Eggers made the following promise: “Your sons…
This is a follow up to the ongoing story of Kenny MacAskill’s attempt to justify his decision to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am 103, in 2009. I discussed several reactions in a previous post; on Monday, The Scottish Daily Mail published an article detailing the…
Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholarship program began in 1990 and fittingly, Remembrance Week, now generally celebrated in October, was the brainchild of the Remembrance Scholars themselves several years later. By the early 1990s, there were few students left on campus with direct ties to the 35 students lost in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Concerned…
Alicia and I became close friends in the second half of my sophomore year. A theater major from Madrid, Alicia was brilliant, talented, worldly, and sophisticated. I felt more intelligent just for being around her and relished the hours we spent together lost in conversation in her room in Lourdes Hall. Our discussions covered everything…
Our thoughts are for those lost aboard Flight FZ981 and for their families and friends.
