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US Charges New Suspect in 1988 Pan Am Bombing

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - Outgoing U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday
   announced criminal charges against a new suspect in the 1988 terrorist
   bombing of a Pan Am airliner that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

   The charges against Abu Agela Masud, a former senior Libyan
   intelligence officer and bomb maker, came on the 32nd anniversary of
   the bombing that killed 270 people in what remains the worst terrorist
   attack in British history and the second worst in U.S. history after
   the attacks of September 11, 2001.

   "Our message to other terrorists around the world is this-- you will
   not succeed-- if you attack Americans, no matter where you are, no
   matter how long it takes, you will be pursued to the ends of the earth
   until justice is done," Barr said at a press conference at the Justice
   Department

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