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,
2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing 2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing The 2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing occurred on August 15, 2009 when an Taliban suicide bomber detonated himself outside the NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. The bomber killed at least seven people and injured 91. The bomber drove his automobile undetected through three or fewer police-checkpoints before detonating his explosive payload, estimated as variously and , from the main gate of the NATO base. The attack, coming five days before the country's presidential elections, was the first major attack in the capital since February. The attack wounded 91 people and immediately killed seven civilians, though