Lockerbie.

On Wednesday 21 December 1988 a bomb went off on board Pan Am 103, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members, a further 11 on the ground were also killed . A Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi , was convicted of the bombing in January 2001.
Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds today.
There have been questions since the bombing many claiming Megrahi wasn't responsible, among others Iran were suspected of involvement as a revenge attack for the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by a US navy ship a few months before. Another claimed the CIA might have been involved and that the aircraft had been used for smuggling drugs as part of a covert operation (there were 2 inteligence officers on board) another report suggested the Israeli intelligence service might have been involved.
Whatever the truth we should remember the tragic events of the day.