The World : Jet Crash Laid to Terrorist

The head of a Palestinian guerrilla faction was responsible for the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Scotland on Dec. 21 that killed 270 people, CBS News reported. The network, citing what it called sources “in the international terrorist movement,” said Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was the principal architect of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and had the backing of both Libya and Syria. A spokesman for Jibril denied that the group was involved. Secretary of State James A. Baker III commented, “I don’t know that any responsibility has been determined.” According to CBS, the Syria-based Jibril was working for Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, who was seeking revenge for the 1986 U.S. air raids on Libya.