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Pan Am Flight 103 disaster... Lockerbie bombing...

Item # 729385 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dec. 22, 1988

* Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
* Lockerbie, Scotland disaster
* Airplane terrorist murders
* Syracuse University students 

The top of the front page has a two column headline: "At Least 258 Dead in Scotland Crash of N.Y.-Bound 747" with subhead and two related photos. (see images) More on page 16. A archival mend on page 15 slightly affects the continued coverage on page 16. (see images)
Complete with all major sections (140+ pages), mentioned archival mend, otherwise in great condition.

Background: The 1988 Lockerbie bombing remains unprecedented in both its devastating scale and the extraordinary forensic engineering required to solve it. What makes Pan Am Flight 103 exceptionally rare in the history of counterterrorism is that a catastrophic atmospheric breakup at 31,000 feet—which scattered 270 victims and debris across an 845-square-mile crash zone—was ultimately solved by a microscopic piece of physical evidence. Investigators meticulously combed the Scottish countryside to recover a fingernail-sized fragment of a circuit board embedded in a scrap of charred shirt fabric; this single remnant was traced directly to a specific batch of Swiss-made MBO timers sold exclusively to Libyan intelligence. Beyond its status as the deadliest terror attack on British soil and the second-deadliest against U.S. civilians, the case is historical for its unique legal and geopolitical aftermath: it sparked the first-ever Scottish criminal trial held on neutral foreign soil in the Netherlands, forced Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to pay $2.7 billion in official state reparations, and saw justice actively pursued across nearly four decades, culminating in the 2022 U.S. custody of bomb-maker Abu Agila Mas'ud.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$67
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.