abdul bassett al megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. al megrahi's family says the former libyan and intelligence officer passed away today at a hospital in tripoli. he was 60 years old. his death comes 2 1/2 years after his release from a scottish prison. al megrahi was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, the victims' families were outraged after he received a hero's welcome in libya. >>> 270 people died when pan am flight 103 went down just minutes after takeoff from a london airport. the plane was bound from new york and more than half of the passengers were american. joining me now from new york, burt amorman. he lost a brother in that attack. he's also a former spokesman of an organization representing the victims' families. good to see you, burt. so what are your initial thoughts upon learning of al megrahi's death? >> when i received the phone call about 8:30 this morning, i was pleased. he's finally left this earth.

i met with bush 41 on april 3rd, 1989, for over 90 minutes regarding flight pan am 103 and i would love to have that one to one meeting with the president. >> well, let us know if that indeed comes to fruition. berth ammerman, thanks so much. >>> an all-important meeting in chicago before the meeting of the nato summit. president barack obama sat down with the president of afghanistan to talk about troop withdrawals. cnn's foreign affairs reporter elisa lavette is joining us. let's talk about that discussion between obama and karzai. what happened? >> reporter: they just met a little while ago, and basically, fred, it's all about getting afghanistan ready for the handover. at first, after 2013, afghanistan's security forces will have the lead for all afghan operations. there won't be any nato forces in a combat role. and after 2014, all nato troops will be out. so it's all about trying to train up the afghan security forces. president obama and afghan president karzai have hat in hand, looking for allies to help foot the bill for those afghan security forces. and president obama letting

the man convicted of bombing pan am flight 103 back in 1988 is dead. families are relieved but some feel they don't have the full story. >> it's one more development in a long history of tragedy, heart ache and outrage in the wake of the pan am 103 bombing. abdel al-megrahi was diagnosed with pros tate cancer and died today in tripoli. he was convicted after libyan dictator qaddafi returned him over for trial. he was returned home to a hero's welcome three years ago. the brother of a victim says that he is happy that he died but the full story has not been told. >> there are other people involved. no question about that no question in my mind that iran or sierra have been involved. i don't know if our government or the british government would have the stomach to find the truth. >> pan am flight 103 went down killing all people on board and a few others on the ground in lockerbie, scotland. most killed were americans. the national transitional council which now rules libya has said it will work with the stottish government to investigate who else may h

three scottish judges found megrahi guilty of planting a bomb on the pan am flight. a fragment of its timer was found among the wreckage. allegedly wrapped in megrahi's shirt. megrahi's son said his father was innocent and that he died of cancer at home in tripoli surrounded by friends and family. many libyans claim megrahi was a scapegoat. but u.s. security officials say he was no patsy. he was a terrorist. >> this was a man who was an operative, who worked on behalf of moammar gadhafi, and was absolutely instrumental in the death of 280 people in bombing pan am 103. >> reporter: families of the victims today found some solace in megrahi's passing but not much. >> there'll never be closure for any of us when your loved one is blown out of the air at 31,000 feet. there's some step of justice. the families for 24 years now have been trying to seek the truth. >> reporter: that truth for many remains unclear. did megrahi act alone? and why was he released at all? a scottish court let megrahi return to libya in 2009 on humanitarian grounds saying he would be dead from ca

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abdul al ma gra hi is the only person convicted of bombing pan am flight 103 in 1988. his family said the former libyan intelligence officer died today at a hospital in tripoli. he was 60 years old. his death comes two and a half years after his release from a scottish prison. he was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, victims' families were outraged after he received a hero's welcome in libya. many believe al megrahi was just a small player in the bomb plot, and the case needs to be pursued. earlier today, i talked to a former spokesman for the victims' families who lost a brother in the attack. they want those in the u.s. and britain to find all the responsible parties. >> it's now up to obama and cameron, the families have persevered for over 20 years, and with the support of the media we kept this as a front page story worldwide. i do believe we could put the pressure on them to find the truth. and i would love to meet with president obama. i met with bush 41 on

you know who knows what went on in pan am 103. obama to watch him over in nato spend billions of dollars on a rukor runcorrupt a leader like karzai and not spend the time on who blew up pan am 103 is hypocritical. >> when you call his actions hypocritical, what more do you want him to do? do you want him to take the money he is spending regarding the nato summit and the afghan government to stabilize that country and use it for an investigation? >> you don't even need that much. he is in custody of the french. our government knows that, the british government knows that. if they were interrogating him aggressively, they will get the answers to pan am 103. this is common sense. the problem i have realized over the last 24 years is common sense is either not well-received in washington or over in the united kingdom or is met with resistance because they really truly in the end might not want to know what the truth was. >> is this the end of your journey now that megrahi has died or do you feel like you have an active position, there

happy to do it. >> many of those killed aboard pan am flight 103 were students from syracuse university coming back to the u.s. from a semester abroad program. no surprise a mother of one of those students who lives in maryland is not mourning the death of the man convicted of blowing up that airliner. fox 5s. john has the story. >> reporter: when she worked at pay check jobs, rosemary was a career writer and editor, 1988 her only child, was among those killed when a terrorist bomb blew up a pan am jet over lockerbie scotland. she was a theatre major at sire cause university. her mom has written two books in an effort -- syracuse university. her mom has written two books in an effort to keep her memory alive. >> when we would watch fame, she would bounce up and dance throughout the house. >> reporter: when the libyan intelligence officer we object before the judges she attended part of the trial. she was later enraged from his release at a scottish jail, supposedly for humanitarian reasons. >> prostate cancer. however, it was a libyan doctor who diagnosed it and said he has three months

here's steve kingston. >> the journey of pan am flight 103 was to have ended here in new york city.ns never made it home. among them, tom amerman, a marketing manager and father of two. i spoke to his brother about the late abdelbaset al-megrahi. >> he massacred 259 innocent people at 31,000 feet, and yet he had his family surrounding him at his death. at least he's left this world with the despicable act and what the american and british government did in his release was despicable. >> from abc, this is "world news tonight" with peter jennings. >> good evening. the simple fact is this -- pan am flight 10 had been in the air for an hour. >> the passing of 24 years has done little to erase the shock that have night. the many rellmives, his trial, and the guilty verdict were the closest thing to come. when megrahi was convicted of mass murder in a specially convened court in the netherlands, many u.s. relatives were there to witness it. and unlike some of their british counterparts, the americans were overwhelmingly convinced of his guilt. but few believe one man alone was responsible

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earliier i asked nic robertson f secrets of the pan am bombing died with al megrahi. >> reporter: there certainly will be people out there with information. megrahi has perhaps died with the -- you know, with him is the ability to point at the people in the regime who he could perhaps say to go to this person and this person, and then you'll get the truth. but we know that the head of libyan intelligence, who directed, who was essentially the -- megrahi's boss will have a lot of information about this. moammar gadhafi's son, still alive. he'll have a lot of information about this. >> moammar gadhafi never denied a connection to the bombing. he paid $2.7 billion in compensation to the victims' families. >>> let's take you right now to chicago, the host city of the nato summit, 50 nations, leaders of those nations are meeting there inside. and then outside you've got a number of protests, at least demonstrators who have gathered. many have said they're trying to make a statement about the economy. others have said they've tried to make statements about the u.s. and its involvement in the

she believes that qaddafi gave the order to blow up pan am flight 1033. now aday, security measures are much tighter than they were in 19828. what would you say to people who are growing tired of going through airport security? >> i would say suck it up. they are trying to keep us protected. >> reporter: in severna park, maryland, john henrehan. >> many family members of the victims of the pan am flight were outraged when al-megrahi was released on humanitarian reasons. now, it some question whether there was some back door deal. >> there is no proof of that. there is no absolute document, but, frankly, in my mind and in the mind of other -- even fbi agents who looked at the case, there is no doubt that there was a deal made between the british and scottish governments and libya in exchange for not having their business relationship interrupted. number 2, if you look at the case itself, one of the two defendants was acquitted. the other one was found guilty and then let go. i mean, here is a guy who killed almost 300 people. we see the victims -- and most

he was on pan am 103. how is your family receiving this news that the lockerbie bomber has died?ased. you refer to when he was released in 2009, that was when i was most angry in this 24-year journey. that's been tempered somewhat with the removal and death of gadhafi from power. he was the big fish, and megrahi as far as i am concerned became a minor actor once gadhafi was killed. what is not happening and should happen is the gentleman that was arrested a couple months ago, the intelligence chief of libya under gadhafi, has the key to the truth of what happened in pan am 103, and our government, the british government, and anyone in the free world should be interrogating him very, very aggressively to find out who else was involved because megrahi was not the only one and libya i firmly believe was not the only country. >> how did you feel though, certainly he wasn't expected to live as long as he did when he was first released on humanitarian grounds back to die in his home country of libya. were you surprised that he lasted that long and how frustrating was that for your fami

. >> he knows what happened in pan-am 103.s the other individuals involved and other countries involved. there's no question in my mind iran and syria had been involved. i don't know if our government or the british got. has the stomach to find the truth because it might go to the door of iran. >> pan-am flight went down killing all 259 people on board mostly americans plus 11 people on the ground. it was one of the most deadly attacks in modern history. meg g megrahi -- >> it was a propa process. we have to give people the chance to mourn those that were lost in the cote cases dealt with. >> they are under international pressure to help with further investigations after that horrific attack 24 years ago. >> heather back to you. >> thank you so much. we will cover this more through out the morning. we will hear more from burt amerman. he will be on fox and friends early this morning. >>> let's talk politics right now. the 2012 election. we have been covering as you well know the obama cast has launched an attack on the company

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respects at the home of abdelbaset al-megrahi, the only person convicted in the lockerbie bombing of pan am 103. the scottish government released abdelbaset al-megrahi on the grounds of compassion, saying he had serious prostate cancer and claimed he'd die in just months but, guess what? that was in 2009. when he arrived back in tripoli, as you can see, he was treated as a hero, not a mass murdering terrorist. when he arrived in libya and these pictures, of the homecoming sparked fury across the country. especially, among the families of the victims of pan am 103 and one of them, bert ammerman, who has been out spoken all these years will join us live coming up in the next hour. ♪ >> eric: time for "sunday house call," dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai center in new york. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel of langone medical center and author of "the anyoinner pulse" unlocking the secrets of sickness and health. good to see both of you. >> jamie: we'll unlock the secret, i'm excited about this one, of sugar, because a lot of us like sugar but it could make you sick and makes yo

. >>> a quiet funeral for a terrorist today, the only man convicted in the bombing of pan am flight 103 died a free man. abdelbaset al-megrahi was let out of jail in 2009. it doesn't end the anger over the murder of 270 people on the plane and on the ground. >> al-megrahi laid to rest in libya, the only person convicted for the pan am flight 103 bombing released for humanitarian reasons suffering from cancer, served only eight years of a life sentence. this was called by many a grave injustice. >> it is such a grave injustice that al-megrahi who caused such havoc and heartache died in freedom instead of behind bars which is where he should have been. that's where he belonged. it's particularly despicable that he was able to die with his family, but he took that right away from 200 others, 189 americans. >> reporter: scottish officials tell fox news al- megrahi's death does not impact the ongoing investigation into the lockerbie bombing. for the relatives of those who died in the crash his death stirs up questions whether others went unpunished. >> i would love to meet with obama and say

. >>> families looking for justice in the bombing of pan am flight. al megrahi, the only person ever connected to the bombing of that flight died yesterday. >> him passing away with his family brings anger. there's never closure in an act so senseless as this. the hole will continue to be there. you try to visualize how your loved one was blown out of the air at 31,000 feet. >> al megrahi holds the key to what actually happened aboard pan am flight 103. >>> this morning, we're remembering legendary bee gees singer robin gibb, who died after a long battle with cancer. ♪ started a joke ♪ which started the whole world crying ♪ ♪ everything a man could want to do ♪ >> the harmonies turned him and his brothers into pop culture icons. the success was brought down with tragedies. robin's twin, maurice, died back in 2003. the youngest singing gibb, who was a solo artist, was only 30 when his heart gave out. that was back in 1988. and now, robin gibb, died in london at the age of 62. boy, the musical legacy they leave behind, unbelievable. >>> and spectacular

i confess i would be devastated for 10 minutes if pan am is cancelled.robable race on the british top gear. the news is grim. don't be embarrassed. be proud if you need to lose yourself in television for awhile. for somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.ç dylan. >> a proprietor of fantasy. it's a rational thing. i have some bad news for you though. >> you do? that does surprise me. not really. hit me with it. >> they are canceling "pan am." >> really? >> they will. thank you very much. have a wonderful weekend. >> you too. >> we have a big around here with the launch of "greedy bastards" and understanding the issues. this monday we're going to focus on an issue that goes beyond the esoterics of the systems of banking to the critical and tragic behavior we're seeing in

the remain hs of pan am 103. tonight the bombers death brings relief but no resolution for the families of those murdered. >> there never is closure in an act so senseless as this. the hole will continue to be there. any time you try to visualize how your loved one died. burt has been to lockerbie to remember his 36-year-old brother tom, one of the 270 killed, most of them american. eleven years later gadhafi, handed over the former libyan intelligence officer who was convicted and sentenced to life. after serving just eight years, suffering from cancer, he was released from what were said to be humanitarian reasons. families and experts believe he was released to open up libyan oil brokered by the u.s. and british. which is why this day does not bring closer to many. >> it brings anger that he had the ability to do that. >> reporter: other family members believe there are others responsible for this bombing that must still be brought to justice. tonight it's investigation is not over. now more than 24 years afte

the remains of pan am 103 which fell on lockerbie scotland. brings relief but no resolution for families of those murdered. >> there never is closure in an act so senseless as this. the hole will continue to be there. any time you try to visualize how your loved one was blown out of the air at 31,000 feet. >> reporter: bert ammerman has been to lockerbie to remember his 36-year-old brother tom, 1 of the 270 killed, most of them americans. 11 years later under crushing sanctions, libya's gadhafi handed over abdel baset al megrahi, the former intelligence officer who was convicted and sentenced to life. after serving just eight years, suffering from cancer, he was released for what was said to be humanitarian reasons. but families and experts believe he was released to open up libyan oil to the world in a deal brokered by the british and the u.s., which is why this day does not bring closure for many. >> him passing away with his family brings anger that he had the ability to do that. >> reporter: ammerman and other families believe there are ot

their son mark was on pan am flight 103 that was bombed over lockerbie, scotland in 1988.s everywhere in their new york home. >> another one of his buddies. >> reporter: mark was 29 years old, worked for goldman sachs in london and was on his way home for the holidays. it was 24 years ago, but it's every bit as painful today. >> i miss him a lot, good kid. would have been a contributing member of society, so i'm very sad about that, sad for him. we're hurt. he's gone. all the other people, just not -- just think, down in washington and the families, i met one family lost five members of their family, unborn children, so sad. >> reporter: mark's parents have followed every twist and turn of the investigation to bring al megrahi to justice, protesting and demanding more information. they even wrote former president richard nixon seeking his support two years after the bombing. nixon responded with a handwritten letter. >> including governments we subsidize and -- >> and encourage. >> terrorism. >> reporter: years later they continue to keep tabs on the case, baffled by a dec

>>neil: he never did critical stories on pan am. when they ran into financial troubles --.ey were his friends. >>neil: my point no telling you this is on the right, anything like that inferenced with any talent here, game over. game over. it was accepted then. that is not fair. >>guest: that is the way it was back if that era. and that is why nixon and agnew went after the big three worried about abc, cbs, and nbc, out of new york controlling the media and they did it in a clumsy fashion, i listened to the nixon tapes trying to get conkrite and they break it down with the birth of cable news, and cronkite quit in 1981 and cnn came and then fox and now it is more diversified. there will never be a moment with uncle wall december cronkite one person influencing so many people. >>neil: but what he had to retire early sooner than he wanted because of dan rather but for all the competition, they had similar largely antirepublican views, rather critical of next on and of the press conferences. and, the feisty relationship. so it seemed they --. >>guest: politically corner cite --

tae kwon do athlete of the year, and he won the bronze at the pan am games. he will try to work his way through a 16-man bracket today and all the way to the gold medal match later tonight. >> and team usa is once again in the lead with the medal count with 81. 34 of those are gold. china now trails by four with 77 but still holds the lead in gold medals. russia moved ahead of great britain into the third spot with 52 medals. another incredible day in track and field. allyson felix winning her gold after two disappointing olympics. very exciting. it brings tears to my eyes still when i hear the national anthem. >> and danella mentioned julie zetlin, who is going to be competing in rhythmic gymnastics. she tweeted just hours ago, "tomorrow is one of the two days that i will remember for the rest of my life." so, going to be a big deal. >> that's right. she said she was just happy to be there, soaking up the spirit. >>> 4:51, time for weather and traffic on the 1s, tom. how hot is it going to get today? >> here we go again, heat and humidity, and it's not too b

pan am flight 103 enroute from heathrow to new york city, right before christmas, was blown up at 31,000 feet over lockerbie, scotland, december 21st, 1988, it killed 270 people on board, 259 were on the plane, including 189 americans, which also included a number of syracuse university students coming home for the holidays after a semester abroad. # one people were killed on the ground when that plane crashed in lockerbie. in november 991 -- 1991, the u.s. and great britain accused of two libyans in the case, libya denied any involvement, and now the families of the victims are reacting to al megrahi's death. >> mr. megrahi did not do this alone, we know there are unindicted coconspirators involved and the possibility in my mind of two countries. >> when megrahi was released two years ago that was an act of betrayal by the british and american government, strictly for oil and big business. it is a despicable act for which i will never foregiveth administration for doing. megrahi had the ability to be surrounded by loved ones. my brother was blown out of the air at 31,000 feet and we kno

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this is father is one of the founders of victims of pan am 103.nk you for joining us today. >> it's nice to be with you. shannon: you have so many unanswered questions, i know. do you feel like we have learned anything about the deal that sent abdel baset al-megrahi out of prison in 2009? >> i think that we learned that fairly early on. it was quite clearly a deal between the british government and the libyan government to release abdel baset al-megrahi in return for bp getting rights to drill for oil in libya. moammar qaddafi made it very clear to the british that if abdel baset al-megrahi died in prison they would never be allowed to dig for oil in libya. so they figured out a way to release him because he did have prostate cancer, and they released him on grounds that he should die amongst his family and friends, which is something he never considered when he blew up 270 people without allowing them to be anywhere near their family and friends. shannon: and that certainly has to be something that bothers you greatly, your own son alexander, not

possibly what we were looking for was who else was involved in the downing of pan am 103, was assad,an government? we know that they at one time were very much involved, but to what degree we can't tell you, we don't know and i don't think i want to speculate. jaime: well, stan, the thing is, the lone bomber got a hero's welcome when he returned, and he's now died. do you still believe that there were other people responsible? >> well i think that they provided -- they provided information as if they were to cooperate toward the bombing of the flight, because actually there was supposedly a number of flights that was to have a bomb placed upon it on the day that pan am 103 went down. fortunately the spanish security at their airport in madrid was able to detain and search the other planes, and so only pan am 103 that was flying out of germany into heathrow and then from heathrow back to new york got away with it, and that's what had taken place. as far as abdel basaet al-megrahi being released, that -- let me just put it this way. it was money and oil that brought all of this about.

pan am flight one of the blue of 31,000 feet over scotland killing 259 on board and 11 people on thet's talk politics and the political minute. how foreign-policy figures and to the presidential election. wanda summers on this now with a look at the nato summit to going on in chicago right now. it's been a whistle president obama and afghan president hamid karzai pub but the end of award and heard hamid karzai thank president obama because of the support. how much an issue will foreign- policy? >> foreign policy will be a huge issue. kind of a perfect storm with the death of osama bin laden during the present administration and the recent elections -- i believe greece is showing a huge foreign policy moment. that said, and it romney has not particularly taken the president to test on foreign policy. his campaign has been largely focused on economic issues but i expect that to accelerate very shortly. >> do we think president obama is intentionally trying to make foreign-policy issue because he does not want to talk about the economy? >> i am not sure if that is the reason but i think

he was friends with pan am and the top executive. i deserve a little r and r. it was a mistake. all the points he mentioned are in the book. i consider them our mistakes. i am trying to write a real biography. i think the line was what he had a halo. how many people in life had a low? when you do a full biography, may you will see the high and lows. cronkite was not meanspirited. he endures as a great journalist. look at john f. kennedy. could he have done things he did in his personal life and? it was blurred a little more. you had a little group of people controlling washington. it was not the internet era. >> i came to realize that the man that once dominated television was more complicated and occasionally more unethical and the legend that surrounds them. >> i would not use the word "unethical" but he was a child of the left. he was a fan of progressive democrats. he camouflaged that because there were many people in the depression. he was always worried about losing his job. he tried to be centered. he liked getting mail from both the right and left. he was able to stay so

he had prostate cancer. 270 people were kill in the the 1988 bombing of the pan am flight.ather, helping crews in colorado to get control of the wildfire. officials say it's 85% contained. the west has been hit hard this fire season with blazes in arizona and several other states. those are the top stories right now. back to you. thank you very much. tomorrow, jurors begin day 2 of deliberations in the john edwards corruption trial. he is charged with six felony count, accusedded of using nearly a million dollars from wealthy donors to cover up an affair with his pregnant mistress, rielle hunter. jure oners have to decide if he knowingly and willfully broke campaign law. we have a defense attorney and a former federal prosecutor here. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank, shannon. >> jennifer, i want to start with you. a lot of folks see the trial of roger clemens here and they say, it's a waste of government time and money to be trying folks -- they are trying to make examples out of them. is that what's happening with john edwards? >> i believe that's what is