Judge postpones trial for man charged in 1988 Pan Am bombing
A federal judge has postponed the trial of a former Libyan intelligence official accused of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. The delay was granted to allow defense attorneys time to review newly disclosed evidence in the decades-old case.
Why it matters
This case represents a significant attempt to achieve legal closure for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks against Americans in history.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday postponed a trial in the U.S. for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, citing the discovery of new evidence that defense attorneys want to examine in the nearly 40-year-old case.
Jury selection was scheduled to begin Wednesday for the federal trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in Washington, D.C. His trial will be the first in the U.S. for the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people , most of them Americans.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich’s order didn’t specify the nature of the newly discovered evidence.
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