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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

1952 - 2012

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Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi ( Arabic: عبد الباسط محمد علي المقرحي, ʿAbdu l-Bāsiṭ Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Maqraḥī; 1 April 1952 – 20 May 2012) was a Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103. He was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya, and a Libyan intelligence officer. On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted, by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder for the bombing of the flight over Scotland on 21 December 1988. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the 16,911th most popular politician (down from 16,611th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Libya (down from 64th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Libyan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ranks 16,911 out of 19,576. Before him are Adela Pankhurst, Santiago Abascal, Lucius Postumius Albinus, Rui Rio, Evgeny Bareev, and Touriya Jabrane. After him are Rita Barberá, Yury Borisov, Paulo d'Eça Leal, Aminata Touré, Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, and Maja Gojković.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ranks 587. Before him are Pier Paolo Bianchi, Parker Stevenson, Saufatu Sopoanga, Philippe Kahn, Andy Fraser, and Touriya Jabrane. After him are Lee Strobel, Pia Tafdrup, Debbie Meyer, Jamil Hasanli, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Antônio Silva. Among people deceased in 2012, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ranks 415. Before him are Barney McKenna, Janice E. Voss, Nicholas Katzenbach, Joel Goldsmith, Fidélis, and J. J. C. Smart. After him are Doc Watson, Phyllis Thaxter, Earl Scruggs, Charles Colson, Mike Sparken, and Héctor Camacho.

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In Libya

Among people born in Libya, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ranks 69 out of 76. Before him are Arcesilaus II of Cyrene (-700), Muhammad Sakizli (1892), Ibrahim Kuni (1948), Muhammad Osman Said (1924), Abdul Hafiz Ghoga (1957), and Abu Anas al-Libi (1964). After him are Don Coscarelli (1954), Khamis Gaddafi (1983), Abdelhakim Belhaj (1966), Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (1982), Al-Musrati (1996), and Mohammed Nabbous (1983).

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Among POLITICIANS In Libya

Among politicians born in Libya, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ranks 41. Before him are Ali Tarhouni (1951), Abdul Qadir al-Badri (1921), Mustafa A. G. Abushagur (1951), Muhammad Sakizli (1892), Muhammad Osman Said (1924), and Abdul Hafiz Ghoga (1957). After him are Khamis Gaddafi (1983), Abdelhakim Belhaj (1966), and Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (1982).

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