1986 United States bombing of Libya The Libyan Government accepted responsibility for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on 29 May 2002, and offered $2.7 billion to compensate the families of the 270 victims. The convicted Libyan, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was suffering from terminal prostate cancer, was released in August 2009 by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds. He died in 2012. In May 2014 a group of relatives of the Lockerbie victims continued to campaign for al-Megrahi's name to be cleared by reopening the case. The attack was condemned by many countries. By a vote of 79 in favor to 28 against with 33 abstentions,
Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton with the Art Association of Montreal, and in 1941 she exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was a member of a number of art associations including the Manitoba Society of Artists, the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Winnipeg Sketch Club, the Canadian Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Manitoba. Newton died in 1967 in Toronto, Ontario. Newton was included in the 2013 exhibition "Herstory: Art by Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection" at Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg. Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton (1890–1967) was a Canadian painter known for