Rescue workers examine the nose of Pan Am flight 103 near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270 people, in this December 21, 1988, file photo. A Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence officer, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, of murder and acquitted a second Libyan, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, Wednesday, Jan 31, 2001, in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. The court sentenced al-Megrahi to life in prison with the prospect of parole in viewof his age and the fact that he was serving a foreign government, for his role in the explosion. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)