The Libyan government is to make payments to the families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

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Al Megrahi was convicted, in January this year, of mass murder over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, with the loss of 270 lives.

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Libya accepted responsibility last year for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, and is to pay compensation to the families of the 270 victims.

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Its top public relations executive, Ray O'Rourke, served as principal crisis counselor to now-defunct Pan Am when Libya downed its Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all 270 on board.

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On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

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In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew aboard in an attack that was later linked to Libya.

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France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.

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Pan AM flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie in southern Scotland in 1988, an attack for which Libya eventually took responsibility.

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In a statement, Cardinal O'Brien, the archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, described the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as an "act of unbelievable horror and gratuitous barbarity".

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