Oh my god. Oh my god. That’s so horrible.

Thank you. Also, how awful for his family and friends. 💔

I don’t understand how this could have happened. Either a person is located or they’re not. Why did the club make the statement saying he’d been rescued? Does anyone know?

What your family has been through. My god. 💔

I’m so sorry. We have all the evidence we now have because of people like your dad. I’m so grateful to him for the terrible, necessary work he did.

I needed this. 😂

Your father was important in helping us identify and send home the belongings of those we lost. I can’t imagine what those images did to him, but they had critical forensic value.

By the time I reached the Incident Centre, most of my friend’s things were accounted for and repacked. (The amazing women of Lockerbie had laundered and folded clothes that fell out of passenger luggage after the explosion.) I never had to see your father’s work, but it helped the lovely local people identify some of my friend’s things as hers.

Please thank him for me. ❤️

I think you miss a lot of things, lmao. Have a better day.

My brother in Christ, this is a matter of public record.

My friend was murdered aboard that flight when I was in college. She was just 20. I was just a little bit older.

I have read every report on this disaster. I have watched all the TV coverage of it. I followed the initial investigation (the only good thing Poppy Bush ever did, btw) and then the show trial, like my life depended on it.

I’m not afraid of flying anymore, but Christmas has sucked for me for 34 years.

That’s how I know.

A detail that people often miss: the bomb aboard that flight was on a timer. The plane was supposed to blow up over water, but the flight departed about 20 minutes later than scheduled.

PA103 had received clearance to enter oceanic airspace from Shanwick Oceanic Control 6 seconds before the bomb went off. The message was never acknowledged.

LMAO. (cracks knuckles)

The bomb had been assembled in Libya, likely packed into a suitcase in Malta, loaded onto a flight in Germany, and finally planted aboard its destination flight on an American carrier in London. After negotiations with Nelson Mandela and the United Nations, Scottish authorities were placed in charge of the trial of the first two suspects, which was held in the Netherlands. And Scotland did incarcerate the one convicted terrorist until they released him on medical grounds 8 years later. They shouldn’t have done that, but they did. He died 4 years later.

So yes, we tried the collective approach. It failed. This is a murder investigation and the majority of people who were murdered were Americans. We have your uncle in custody and we’re going to try him. If you’re mad about that, you should have told him not to confess to building the bomb a decade ago, lol.

You don’t have to like it. In fact I’m kind of happy about how upset you are.

Merry Christmas.

That is what you are saying. And you’re making kind of a mess of saying it, lmao.

A professor at UC Berkeley School of Law taught students in her civil procedure class that their work began with one question: What would make the client whole?

In this case, the answer is: 270 people still alive. Their families intact. A quiet street in a tiny Scottish town unharmed, no homes on fire, no bodies in its back gardens and fields. All of that has been impossible since 21 December 1988. What we have left now is prosecution.

American courts aren’t perfect. But we’ve developed really robust tort law, over generations, that effectively measures harm and assesses the appropriate responses to it. We’re good at defining horror with dollar amounts. We like making people pay.

The law in the United States is an imperfect system of last resort. This delayed attempt at justice, 34 years after my friend was murdered on her way home from a semester abroad, is the definition of last resort. And I will take it.

Hi, friend. 💔

The combined value of the lives lost on that plane was calculated in the tens of millions. My friend was one of them. She would be 54 now.

We’ve learned a lot about how international courts “work” in the past 34 years. We are going to make these charges stick.