Terrorist Suspected in Pan Am Bombing Convicted in Sweden
A Swedish court today convicted Mohammed Abu Talb, a Palestinian suspected in the bombing of Flight 103, of terrorism charges in connection with a fatal 1985 attack on an airline office.
The 35-year-old Palestinian was sentenced to life in prison for the July, 1985, bombing of a Northwest Airline office in Copenhagen, Denmark. The attack killed one person and wounded more than 20.
By coincidence, the verdict fell on the first anniversary of the bombing of Flight 103, the Pan Am Boeing 747 that went down in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
Abu Talb’s possible connection with the disaster surfaced when it was established that he had been in the Mediterranean island of Malta two months before the explosion, when investigators believe the bomb may have been prepared.
Shreds from clothes wrapped around the bomb could match clothing that Abu Talb brought back with him from Malta. Scottish police seized 15 bags of clothing from his Uppsala home Nov. 27.
Abu Talb, who listed his birthplace as the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut, is a former Egyptian army soldier who deserted to join the Palestine Popular Struggle Front.
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