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Although the Bush ad-
ministration has absolved
Syria for the 1988 bombing
of Pan Am Flight 103, it will
not be removed from the
U.S. list of countries suppor-
ting terrorism, the White
House said.
The dramatic clearing of
Syria's name, as well as that
of Iran and Palestinian
radical groups that have
defected from the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
came last week, with the
Justice Department's an-
nouncement that a federal
grand jury had indicted two
Libyans linked to that coun-
try's intelligence service in
the December 1988 bombing
over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Some family members of
the victims expressed doubt
over the indictments and
even spoke of a White House
coverup.
John Frick Root, whose
wife, Hanne Marie, was
among the dead, told the dai-
ly New York Newsday the
U.S. indictment "is an at-
tempt at a coverup by the
Bush administration. Syria
and Iran and Libya con-
spired together to blow up
Pan Am 103," he said.
Detailed plots had been
reconstructed in the three
years since the attack on the
plane, which killed 270 peo-
ple. Those reconstructions
had pointed largely to Syria
and the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine-
General Command.
What led investigators to
Libya, the Justice Depart-
ment said, was evidence that
both a piece of an automatic
timer found in the wreckage
and clothing, purchased in
Malta, were traced to two
Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali
al-Megrahi and Lamen
Khalifa Fhimah.
The timer was bought in
Switzerland by "a Libyan
front company, which sublet
office space in Zurich" from
the timing device-maker,
Meister et Bollier, Ltd. Tele-
communications, according
to the indictment.
Many of the details match-
ed those already reported as
the puzzle of Pan Am 103
was reconstructed.
The Justice Department
papers said that the timer
and plastic explosives had
been inserted into a Toshiba
radio-cassette player and
placed in a Samsonite suit-
case, which was transported
first on an Air Malta flight
to Frankfurt and from there
on the Pan Am 103 flight.
For nearly three years,
despite complicated in-
vestigations by the media,
the U.S. and Scottish
governments had refrained
from charging any parties
with the crime. The bombing
killed all 259 people aboard
the airplane, 193 of whom
were U.S. nationals. Eleven
people on the ground were
killed as well.
Scotland's Justice Min-
istry is now pursuing a simi-
lar indictment, and both
countries hope to apprehend
the two Libyans, despite the
lack of extradition treaties
between their countries and
Libya.
U.S. Assistant Attorney
General Robert Mueller
refused to speculate on how
that would be achieved and,
U.S. officials would
not comment on
Libya's motive; it
may have been
retaliation against
the United States
for a 1986 air
attack against
when pressed by reporters,
would not rule out kidnapp-
ing the suspects.
But Mr. Mueller, who
heads the Justice Depart-
ment's Criminal Division,
said one easy way to catch
them would be arrest in
some other country that does
have extradition treaties
with the United States or
Scotland.
The White House and
State Department spokes-
men, Marlin Fitzwater and
Richard Boucher, refused to
rule out any options. But,
unlike Mr. Mueller, they
would not say what any of
them were.
U.S. officials would not
comment on Libya's motive,
but it has been reported it
may have been retaliation
against the United States for
a 1986 air attack against
Tripoli, which caused
destruction and deaths, in-
cluding that of an adopted
daughter of Libyan leader
Moammar Qaddafi.
Mr. Boucher said only that
Libya has a long history of
financing, harboring and
training terrorist groups,
which continues to the pre-
sent.
Iran had also been con-
sidered a likely suspect,
eager to retaliate for the
1988 accidental downing of
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