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...charred piece of shirt, a shred of green plastic the size of a fingernail, the letters MEBO and a cryptic diary entry. Those were the clues that finally unlocked a three-year-old mystery: Who planted the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, just before Christmas in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground? The answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed...
Suspicion in the Pan Am bombing initially fell on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, supposedly prompted by Syria, Iran or both. Victims' relatives in both the U.S. and Britain last week voiced suspicion that Damascus was in fact involved but that its complicity has been overlooked as a reward for Syrian participation in the gulf war against Iraq and in the Arab-Israeli peace conference that started last month in Madrid. U.S. officials make a persuasive case, however, that Libya is solely responsible...
...story, as spelled out in the indictments: sometime between 8:15 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1988, Fhimah and Bassett tagged the bag containing the bomb and placed it on Air Malta Flight KM-190 to Frankfurt. There it was transferred to a Pan Am flight to London, where it was reloaded onto Flight 103 for New York -- passing over Lockerbie...
...transplanted ethnic cuisine. Instead it is an unpredictable culinary reflection of California's ethnic mix. Typically a chef or sous-chef may be Chinese or Japanese and may have trained in France or Italy. He or she may mix several Pacific traditions into what could be called a pan-Asian cuisine, or perhaps add just a few Far Eastern touches to American or French dishes...
Philip P. Pan and Maggie S. Tucker contributed to the reporting of this article...