Evidence in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Case Causes Judge to Postpone Trial of Libyan Terrorist Abu Agila Masud Al-Marimi, Hero of Tampa's Sam Mustafa
The criminal trial of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was postponed by a federal judge Monday after defense attorneys said they received new evidence over the weekend from prosecutors. Jury selection was set to begin Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, age 75. Mr. Al-Marimi participated in the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103. By joining and remaining in the ESO, the defendant Al-Marimi must have known he was signing up to commit acts like the bombing of an American passenger plane. Mr. Al-Marimi therefore had knowledge, intent, and a motive to participate in the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103. It would have been the first U.S. trial stemming from the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans. Al-Marimi is charged with making the bomb that downed the Pan Am flight, killing all 259 passengers and crew members. The plane came down over the small tow...
