In November 1991 , two Libyan intelligence agents , Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah , were charged with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing . Libya refused to extradite the two accused to the U.S. or to Scotland . As a result , United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 was approved on 31 March 1992 , requiring Libya to surrender the suspects , cooperate with the Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 investigations , pay compensation to the victims ' families , and cease all support for terrorism . The UN imposed further sanctions with Resolution 883 , a limited assets freeze and an embargo on selected oil equipment , in November 1993 . In 1999 , six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court . They were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi