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A US trial date has been set for a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie almost 40 years ago.

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00:00the most recent hold-up in august just as jury selection was set to begin followed the disclosure of new
00:06evidence that defence lawyers wanted to examine the last-minute delay caused concern among victims
00:12representatives given at the elderly age of many bereaved relatives the nature of the fresh material has not been revealed
00:20but the court hearing on monday heard it involved just one new witness abu aglia masood now in his mid
00:27-seventies who was in court dressed in a green prison jumpsuit listened to the proceedings through an interpreter he is
00:35charged with two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death he faces a maximum penalty of life in
00:41prison if
00:42convicted prosecutors claim he once confessed to his role although this has been challenged by his lawyers masood who was
00:50extradited from libya to the us in 2022 has denied the charges all 259 passengers and crew and 11 people
00:59on the ground were killed when panem flight 103 exploded 31 000 feet above lockerby in scotland and 38 minutes
01:08into his flight from london to new york in
01:11nineteen eighty eight former libyan intelligence officer abdel basset al migrahi is the only person convicted in reconnection with the
01:20bombing after being found guilty of two hundred and seventy counts of murder by a panel of three scottish judges
01:26sitting at a special court in the hague in two thousand and one
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