World : Report of Bomb in Bag Discredited

Reports that a Lebanese-born American student may have unwittingly carried the bomb that destroyed Pan American Flight 103 have been discredited after the discovery of part of the youth’s luggage, the Independent newspaper said today.

A civilian involved in search operations in the Scottish countryside told the newspaper that remnants of Khalid Jaafar’s baggage were found in the hills near Langholm, about 8 miles east of Lockerbie, Scotland. Part of the zipped duffel bag contained the 21-year-old’s identity card and a roll of money from a country in the Middle East. But the luggage did not bear burn marks or other damage that might have indicated that it was close to the site of the explosion, the worker said.