in which 270 people died remains the biggest terror attack to happen portfolio or on uk soil. but, of course, 189 of those 270 were american. that is why, of course, it as big deal that the lone person, the one person convicted of responsibility for this is dead. he had been suffering from cancer for awhile now. and it is his brother today who said today that in libya he died. we don t have formal confirmation of that. we were speaking to authorities here in the foreign office and in the scottish government so there is no hard confirmation but it is assumed it is, correct. he remained controversial to the very end. his release in 2009 was on quote unquote compassion ate grounds because he was going to be dieing in maybe as short a time as a couple of months. whawhen that didn t happen a lt