The World - News from May 23, 1989
A bomb expert for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a group suspected in the downing of Pan Am Flight 103, was freed 15 days after his arrest in West Germany because he worked for Bonn’s intelligence service, Stern magazine reported. Marwan Khreesat, 44, was among 16 suspected Palestinian terrorists arrested in raids in October but was released in November and returned to his native Jordan. “Five weeks later, a radio bomb of the type that Khreesat had built . . . blew up in the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie (Scotland),” Stern said. The bombing killed 270 people. The magazine said Khreesat worked for the West German BND intelligence agency, but an agency spokesman denied the report.
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