Convicted Lockerbie bomber&nbsp;Abdel Basset al-Megrahi dies at 60
He outlived the Libyan regime: In the late 1980s, al-Megrahi, the security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines, worked covertly for Libya&amp;#8217;s Jamahiriya Security Organization, giving him knowledge of the weaknesses that many airliners have &mdash; which allowed him to know how to place a suitcase bomb on an airliner. That plane,&nbsp;Pan-Am flight 103, exploded, causing the deaths of 270 people over and around Lockerbie, Scotland &mdash; one of the worst terror attacks in history. While there is some question as to whether al-Megrahi was innocent (he was linked via forensic evidence after an international manhunt), he was convicted in the bombing, which also played a role in the eventual demise of Pa