Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi ( , ; 1 April 1952 – 20 May 2012) 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.