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Lockerbie

British

/ ˈlɒkəbɪ /

noun

a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a jumbo jet was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town

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At the Justice Department, Mueller prosecuted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The Glasgow-based human rights lawyer said that the US had previously respected these laws and had worked closely with Scottish authorities following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

Each search party at Lockerbie was teamed with a Raynet operator who would send messages back to Lockerbie Academy, the disaster control room.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

He had been involved in the group for a couple of years at the time but added: "You never imagined something like Lockerbie."

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

In my eagerness to prevent Lockerbie from insulting his guest, I drank nothing, myself, after the first cocktail.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

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