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,
Bomber (2009 film) Gothenburg. Along the way, Bomber picked up the following awards: Bomber (2009 film) Bomber is a 2009 British comedy-drama film directed and written by Paul Cotter about an 83-year-old man returning to Germany for a long planned journey of atonement. It is also Benjamin Whitrow's final film before his death in 2017. Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, and Eileen Nicholas star in Paul Cotter's bittersweet comedy about an old man who goes back to Germany to apologise to a village he accidentally bombed during the war. Lovelorn art school graduate Ross is still down in the dumps when his eighty-three-year-old father