Lockerbie Bombing on The Independent

Weapons and explosives smuggled through airport

Wednesday 17 November 1999

THE FAMILIES of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing called for tighter security at airports yesterday after weapons and explosives were smuggled through Edinburgh airport by undercover inspectors.

FOCUS: ETHICAL TOURISM: Sun, sea and a little ethnic cleansing

Sunday 14 November 1999

Should we holiday in countries with poor human rights records?

Families' TV link to Lockerbie tria

Friday 20 August 1999

US pariahs back in fold

Thursday 29 April 1999

THE UNITED States was due to relax sanctions against Iran, Libya and Sudan last night, an important step in its warming relationship with three countries once considered pariahs by Washington.

Monitor: All the News of the World - Lockerbie bombing

Saturday 10 April 1999

Opinion on the extradition of two Libyans to the Netherlands for trial under Scottish law

Lockerbie deadline `was spin'

Monday 01 March 1999

Lockerbie deadline `was spin'

Media: A contract for justice

Tuesday 05 January 1999

Since 1992, Channel 4's Trial and Error team has overturned 20 cases of miscarriage of justice. Now their success has won them a new contract.

Lockerbie relatives meet Blair

Friday 11 December 1998

BRITISH RELATIVES of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing met Tony Blair at Downing Street yesterday, the first meeting between a Prime Minister and the families in the ten years since the disaster.

Obituary: Sir Robert McCrindle

Tuesday 13 October 1998

ROBERT MCCRINDLE was the perennial Tory backbencher. He would have found himself out of sympathy with the current Conservative anti- European fashions. A Conservative MP for 22 years, he might also have found himself to the left of Tony Blair's New Labour party on social policy, had he not stood down in 1992 after major surgery in 1989.

Words terror

Sunday 30 August 1998

There ought to be a better word for the sort of people who maimed some women and children in the Cape Town bomb attack last week. "Terrorists" won't quite do.

Blair asks Libya for Lockerbie suspects

Saturday 29 August 1998

THE PRIME MINISTER yesterday called on Libya to hand over the two suspects involved in the Lockerbie bombing. "The United Nations has made it quite clear now that it supports this way forward," Tony Blair said. It is obviously important that Libya complies.

Letter: Lockerbie trial

Wednesday 26 August 1998

Sir: The British government, to its credit, guarantees the two Libyans accused of complicity in the Lockerbie bombing justice and a fair trial, without a jury and outside Scotland (report, 24 August).

Lockerbie relatives welcome trial progress

Saturday 28 February 1998

BRITISH relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing yesterday welcomed a ruling which could lead the way to the trial of the two Libyans accused of the murders.

Lockerbie families accept trial in The Hague

Saturday 18 October 1997

Relatives of Americans killed in the Lockerbie bombing are now prepared to see the two Libyan suspects tried at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a spokesman for the families of the British victims said yesterday.