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Article: Finally, a day in court.(trial of suspects in 1998 Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- April 19, 1999
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Now it's put-up-or-shut-up time. Libya's decision to allow two alleged intelligence officers to stand trial for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 comes more than 10 years after the clipper Maid of the Seas exploded in the nighttime skies over Lockerbie, Scotland. Two hundred seventy people died. There's no question that a terrorist's bomb blew the jet up. The evidence assembled, in the most exhaustive terrorism investigation in modern times, leaves not a shred of doubt about that.
But when Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah finally have their day in court, there will be questions aplenty not just about their own guilt or innocence but about the ...