Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi ( , ; 1 April 1952 – 20 May 2012 ) was a Libyan who was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines , director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli , Libya , and an alleged Libyan intelligence officer . On 31 January 2001 , Megrahi was convicted , by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands , of 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland , on 21 December 1988 and was sentenced to life imprisonment . His co-accused , Lamin Khalifah Fhimah , was found not guilty and was acquitted
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi