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immigration raids as part of crackdown\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"helper-site-row o-article-newsy\">\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-newsy__container\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__main\">\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          News<\/p>\n<p>                          World<\/p>\n<p>                          USA<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            New evidence prompts trial delay for Libyan charged in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-controller=\"video-player\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img 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class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspGavin Blackburn\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1787639243\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-08-25 08:27:23 +02:00\">25\/08\/2026 &#8211; 8:27 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-share-comment-share\"><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__label\">Share<\/span><\/span><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__label\">Comments<\/span><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__label c-article-share-comment__label--always\">Add Euronews on Google<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment-popup-overlay js-c-article-share-comment-popup-overlay u-display-none\">\n<div id=\"js-c-article-share-comment-popup\" 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the Scottish town of Lockerbie.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p>A federal judge has postponed a trial in the US of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, citing the discovery of new evidence that defence attorneys want to examine in the nearly 40-year-old case.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jury selection was scheduled to begin on Wednesday for the federal trial of Abu Agila Mohammd Mas\u2019ud Kheir Al-Marimi in Washington. His trial will be the first in the US for the 21 December 1988 bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland, which killed 270 people.<\/p>\n<p>US District Judge Dabney Friedrich\u2019s order didn\u2019t specify the nature of the newly discovered evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Marimi\u2019s lawyers say prosecutors disclosed the new evidence to them on Saturday and added that their \u201cconstitutional and ethical obligations require the defence to investigate this development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defence attorney Laura Koenig, an assistant federal public defender, declined to elaborate in response to press inquiries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/88\/74\/51\/808x539_cmsv2_5199ebe8-de79-591f-b4d3-229544501413-9887451.jpg\" alt=\"A court sketch of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas&apos;ud Kheir Al-Marimi in federal court in Washington, 12 December, 2022\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">A court sketch of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas&#8217;ud Kheir Al-Marimi in federal court in Washington, 12 December, 2022<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The judge scheduled a 1 September hearing in Washington to discuss the status of the case. Friedrich&#8217;s brief order cited the complex nature of the case, the newly discovered evidence and \u201cthe need for the defence to determine how best to defend this case\u201d as reasons to postpone the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Marimi is charged in the US with making the bomb that downed the airplane.<\/p>\n<p>Flight 103 was 9.45 kilometres over Lockerbie when a bomb in the plane\u2019s forward cargo area exploded 38 minutes after take-off from London Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The blast killed all 259 passengers and crew members and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, where the wreckage destroyed an entire block.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of 21 countries were killed, including 190 Americans and 43 from the United Kingdom. The passengers included 35 Syracuse University students returning home from a semester abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Kara Weipz, board president of the nonprofit Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, said her organisation had received no details about the new evidence that prompted the trial delay. Weipz\u2019s brother Richard Monetti was among the Syracuse students killed.<\/p>\n<p>She called the delay a shock and noted that some victims&#8217; relatives were already packing to head to the trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, for almost 38 years we&#8217;ve been seeking the truth of what happened,\u201d Weipz said. \u201cIf that&#8217;s what this is, then that&#8217;s a good thing, and this delay is worth it. It&#8217;s important to hear all the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege Al-Marimi and others carried out the bombing at the direction of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed during a 2011 civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Libyan intelligence agents were tried by a panel of Scottish judges on a former US military base in the Netherlands in 2000. The tribunal convicted one official and acquitted the other, but the bombmaker\u2019s possible identity remained a mystery for years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/88\/74\/51\/808x539_cmsv2_cb88d020-9122-5066-b4ab-c2544a7c71f9-9887451.jpg\" alt=\"Two police officers view the shell of a wrecked house in the centre of Lockerbie, 23 December, 1988\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Two police officers view the shell of a wrecked house in the centre of Lockerbie, 23 December, 1988<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">DAVE GAULKIN\/AP1988<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Al-Marimi, now in his mid-70s, is charged with two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Marimi worked for the Libyan intelligence service from approximately 1973-2011, rising to the rank of colonel, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors believe he brought a suitcase containing a bomb to an airport in Malta and gave it to co-conspirators for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. 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His trial will be the first in the US for the 21 December 1988 bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland,\u00a0which killed 270 people.US District Judge Dabney Friedrich\u2019s order didn\u2019t specify the nature of the newly discovered evidence.Al-Marimi\u2019s lawyers say prosecutors disclosed the new evidence to them on Saturday and added that their \u201cconstitutional and ethical obligations require the defence to investigate this development.\u201dDefence attorney Laura Koenig, an assistant federal public defender, declined to elaborate in response to press inquiries.The judge scheduled a 1 September hearing in Washington to discuss the status of the case. Friedrich&#8217;s brief order cited the complex nature of the case, the newly discovered evidence and \u201cthe need for the defence to determine how best to defend this case\u201d as reasons to postpone the trial.Al-Marimi is charged in the US with making the bomb that downed the airplane.Flight 103 was 9.45 kilometres over Lockerbie when a bomb in the plane\u2019s forward cargo area exploded 38 minutes after take-off from London Heathrow Airport.The flight was bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.The blast killed all 259 passengers and crew members and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, where the wreckage destroyed an entire block.Citizens of 21 countries were killed, including 190 Americans and 43 from the United Kingdom. The passengers included 35\u00a0Syracuse University\u00a0students returning home from a semester abroad.Kara Weipz, board president of the nonprofit\u00a0Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, said her organisation had received no details about the new evidence that prompted the trial delay. Weipz\u2019s brother Richard Monetti was among the Syracuse students killed.She called the delay a shock and noted that some victims&#8217; relatives were already packing to head to the trial.\u201cAt the same time, for almost 38 years we&#8217;ve been seeking the truth of what happened,\u201d Weipz said. \u201cIf that&#8217;s what this is, then that&#8217;s a good thing, and this delay is worth it. It&#8217;s important to hear all the facts.\u201dProsecutors allege Al-Marimi and others carried out the bombing at the direction of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed during a 2011 civil war.Two other Libyan intelligence agents were tried by a panel of Scottish judges\u00a0on a former US military base in the Netherlands in 2000. The tribunal convicted one official and acquitted the other, but the bombmaker\u2019s possible identity remained a mystery for years.Al-Marimi, now in his mid-70s, is charged with two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.Al-Marimi worked for the Libyan intelligence service from approximately 1973-2011, rising to the rank of colonel, according to prosecutors.Prosecutors believe he brought a suitcase containing a bomb to an airport in Malta and gave it to co-conspirators for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. 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