The nose section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 flight 103 airliner, lies in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland in this Dec. 1988 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, Scotland. The court sentenced al-Megrahi to life in prison with the prospect of parole in view of his age and the fact that he was serving a foreign government, in the explosion that killed 270 people, many of them Americans. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)