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Nov 7, 2000 - 06:05 PM
Lockerbie Court Paralyzed Over New Evidence on Palestinians
By Jerome Socolovsky
Associated Press Writer
CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands (AP) - The Lockerbie trial was paralyzed Tuesday as
the defense sought more time to investigate new evidence relating to
Palestinian terrorists initially suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight
103.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers spent the entire day in a private session
with judges discussing another adjournment in the hearings of two Libyans
accused of blowing the airliner out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, on
Dec. 21, 1988, killing 270 people.
The trial had been scheduled to resume Tuesday after a month of delays
following prosecutors' disclosure of new evidence relating to the defense
case.
Scottish officials presiding over the special courtroom in the Netherlands
said hearings would continue in private session Wednesday morning.
Prosecutors said they could wrap up their case within a few days once
testimony resumed.
Jim Swire, a British physician whose daughter, Flora, was on Flight 103, took
the latest setback in stride.
"The last thing we want is someone saying after it's all over, 'I know how it
happened,'" he said. But, he added, "you can't help wondering why new
evidence is being provided now, 12 years later."
Last week, a defense lawyer said the new information revealed "hitherto
unknown" links between inquiries by the German criminal intelligence agency,
the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-General Command.
Defendants Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah blame the
attack on the PFLP-GC and another Palestinian terrorist group, the Palestine
Popular Struggle Front.
A few months before the Lockerbie bombing, German agents raided a PFLP-GC
hide-out in Neuss, near Frankfurt, and found a bomb in a cassette recorder
similar to one that triggered the Pan Am explosion.
The PFLP-GC, headquartered in Syria, was a prime target of British and
American investigations before the indictment of the Libyans in late 1991.
The leader of the Damascus-based PFLP-GC, Ahmed Jabril, denied his group was
responsible soon after the Lockerbie bombing.
Prosecutors say the defendants sent a bomb-laden suitcase from the
Mediterranean island of Malta. The suitcase was furnished with stolen tags
routing it through Frankfurt and onto the Pan Am airliner in London,
according to the indictment.
An alleged PPSF leader, Mohammed Abu Talb, jailed in Sweden for bombing
Jewish and American targets in Europe, had been scheduled to take the stand
Tuesday.
The proceedings have been running since May 3.
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