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Some victim family members and friends. the flight left on the evening of december 21st, 1988, headed to new york, but it exploded over the scottish town of lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff. all 259 people on board as you were saying kelly were killed. many of them were american college students heading home for christmas. today in lockerbie, there was a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing. 11 people were killed there on the ground in lockerbie, scotland. one mother of an american college student spoke about why she attended the event in scotland. i wanted to come here not only to honor thomas but the other 269 victims, and i wanted to stand in the place where my son took his last breath. and say a small prayer. reporter: one libyan intelligence officer, abdel baset al magrhabi was convicted ....
The move comes on the 24th anniversary of the trapbl dewhich killed 270 people on board and on the ground. i am joined by a man whose daughter was 30 years old when she boarded that flight back on december 21st, 1988 and the bomb took her life. stan, thank you so much for joining us. thank you and merry christmas to you. jaime: merry christmas to you. i m sorry that it s without your daughter, what a tragedy. en you hear this news does it help in anyway to know that you may be able to look at these documents? let me correct the information that you received. i had made a few inquires yesterday, prior to knowing that i d be coming on the show today. they are false. the libyan ambassador to britain was giving you information that was not true. he did not have the sanction of ....
so the opportunity zones will allow cities like detroit to qualify for additional exemptions relative to the first nine. right now in the first nine you can deduct purchases if you re a business. you can deduct capital expenditures and net exports. but for those cities that qualify as opportunity zones, you will also be able to deduct a certain amount of your payroll expenses. so you will be insented to put people to work. the other thing about the opportunity zone, is that it just doesn t apply to certain kinds of businesses located in the zone, all businesses would qualify for those kinds of extra exemptions. one of things i believe in is empowering cities to help themselves, empowering workers and individuals to help themselves. this is not an entitlement program. so the cities will have to step up and remove some of the barriers that are within their city limits. so that if the cities do what they can do to help themselves, we will have the 9-9-9 legislation so stru ....
Weekend, the only person ever convicted of the bombing for pan am flight 103 has died, abdel megrahi died in h euba, nearly three years after scotland released him from prison on grounds of compassion. a lot of people had a problem with that. he was suffering from cancer. the doctor said he had only months to live. of course, he went on for three more years after that. in his homeland, he was treated as a hero. who can forget that, a hero s welcome on the ground on libya when he came back. of course there was no compassion shown to the victims on that doomed plane. 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. ....
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