Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

Few names sit so heavily under the shadow of a single event. Al-Megrahi was an airline security chief and intelligence officer, yet history remembers him almost entirely through the Lockerbie verdict. What strikes me is how unresolved his story remains: convicted, controversially released, and dead in his home city by 2012, with arguments over the conviction still simmering. I don't pretend to settle questions experts cannot. But I find his life a sobering study in how one judgment can swallow an entire biography, leaving the man himself oddly invisible behind the case that defines him.

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Name (English)

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

Name (Japanese)

アブデルバセット・アル・メグラヒ

Reading

あぶでるばせっと・ある・めぐらひ

Born

April 1, 1952 – May 20, 2012

Origin

Tripoli, Tripoli District, Libya

Occupation

military personnel

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

University

Cardiff University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelbaset%20al-Megrahi
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307773

Tags

• Tripoli District
• military personnel

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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