32 YEARS ON, GHOST OF LOCKERBIE REFUSES TO DIE: On Monday, the US Justice Department said it had charged a suspect in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people and has been the subject of extremely long investigation. US Attorney General William Barr said that the accused, Abu Agila Mas’ud, helped make the bomb for Libyan intelligence service of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Today, Mas’ud remains in Libyan custody and it is unclear if he will be handed over to the US for trial, though Barr said he was hopeful of bringing Mas’ud to America for the trial. Thirty two years later, the ghost of Lockerbie refuses to die. [COMMENT BY: Omar Shariff, International Editor]
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