WORLD IN BRIEF : LIBYA : Agents Implicated in Pan Am Bombing
Libyan intelligence agents may have assembled and planted the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December, 1988, U.S. investigators said after studying newly uncovered evidence, according to a report in the New York Times. Until now, the inquiry has focused on evidence that Iran hired a Syrian-sponsored terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, to bomb the airliner. The American officials said they still believe that Iran commissioned the attack in revenge for the accidental downing of an Iranian airliner by a U.S. Navy warship.
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