In lieu of the annual service at Arlington National Cemetery, Victims of Pan Am 103 (VPAF 103) has shared a link to videos of previous years’ services. Viewers can access the services here, Additionally, Syracuse University will host a virtual memorial service in Hendricks Chapel at 2:03pm EST. Details and information on attending the service…
The Wall Street Journal has posted an excellent article detailing the lengthy investigation following the bombing of Pan Am 103. Readers should be aware that the article features several videos of the wreckage taken shortly after the bombing.
Nearly 32 years to the day after 270 people lost their lives in the attack on Pan American Flight 103, the United Stated Justice Department in on the verge of filing charges against Abu Agila Mas’ud. Mas’ud’s link to the bombing was revealed in part through the investigative reporting of Ken Dornstein, whose brother, David,…
TEN YEARS AGO last Friday, then FBI Director Robert Mueller bundled himself in his tan trench coat against the cold December air in Washington, his scarf wrapped tightly around his neck. Sitting on a small stage at Arlington National Cemetery, he scanned the faces arrayed before him—the victims he’d come to know over years, relatives…
Twenty Eighteen marks the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and there has been a flurry of activity over the past few weeks as families and friends make plans to commemorate the anniversary on December 21. This year’s Remembrance Week begins with the candlelight service this coming Sunday. The full list…
It’s no an exaggerator to say the Robert Muller, former director of the FBI and special counsel, has become a household hame in recent months, but for families and friends connected to the Pan Am 103 bombing, he was a tenacious advocate who often attended the annual memorial service in Arlington National Cemetery. CNN’s profile…
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Francis “Frank” Duggan, president of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, died on Wednesday after a long illness. His obituary provides a description of his long association with VPAF 103 and his years of service to their cause: After the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, President George H.W. Bush appointed him…
Hamish Macdonell, the Scottish Political Editor for The Times, describes the reaction to the latest attempt by Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi’s family to appeal his 2001 conviction for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: The move has angered the families of the Americans who died in the atrocity. In a statement to The Times…
In an article in The Herald, David Leask writes the Abdullah al-Senussi, one of the alleged masterminds of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, is no longer being held in a Libyan prison: Abdullah al-Senussi, Libya’s one-time intelligence chief, former dictator Mummer Gaddafi’s “executioner” and the ultimate boss of the man known as the…
In an Editorial appearing in the July 5 edition of The Times, Magnus Linklater addresses the most recent effort by Abdelbaset al Megrahi’s family to appeal his conviction: The family of Abdelbaset al_Megrahi are convinced that if they manage to get this third appeal into court, they will finally succeed in proving his innocence. They…
Episode 047: Richard Marquise – Lockerbie Bombing of Flight 103