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...managed to get his message to the Sunday-night CBS news show. His bombshell claim: that Iran, rather than Libya, was the power behind the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Behbahani claims to have been personally involved in supervising the operation, alleging that it was carried out by Libyan operatives subcontracted for the job in conjunction with members of a Syrian-based Palestinian splinter group headed by super-terrorist Ahmed Jibril...
...revelations, should they prove true, are unlikely to affect the outcome of the trial, currently under way in the Netherlands, of two Libyan intelligence agents accused of carrying out the bombing. "The trial is to determine whether or not these two guys actually carried out the attack," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "It was never going to deal with the question of on whose behalf they might have acted. It had been suspected for a long time that the Libyans might have been acting for someone else, and Iran had always been the prime suspect." Behbahani suggested that the attack...
...took nearly 12 years, but last week the trial began of two alleged Libyan intelligence agents accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Though some victims' families believe the defendants are only bit players in a broader terrorist scheme, they are looking for a conviction at the Netherlands trial. But early indications are that the prosecution's job may be tougher than expected. The defense doesn't have to prove anyone else's involvement but merely sow reasonable doubt in the minds of the judges about the guilt of the defendants. And despite the prosecution...
...released are often contradictory. He is reported variously to have worked as a wedding and portrait photographer and as a cameraman for the state TV service, spending time in jail for anti-government activities before finding himself, in 1991, a guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader persuaded Sankoh and former hairdresser and nightclub dancer Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie to form the Revolutionary United Front and fight Sierra Leone's government. They trained alongside Liberia's Charles Taylor, who went on to litter his own road to his country's presidency with many a crushed skull...
...believes that two of the strongman's intelligence agents would have independently conceived and executed a terror attack of such dramatic consequence, Ghaddafi appears to have somehow satisfied himself that the current trial would be unlikely to implicate him directly. And while it was conceivable, given the cycle of Libyan-sponsored terror attacks and retaliatory U.S. bombings of Libya during the '80s, that the attack on Pan Am 103 was authored in Tripoli, analysts have long speculated that the Libyans might have been subcontracted by a third party such as Iran or Syria. But with proceedings focused narrowly...