District Court Holds that Federal Destruction of Property Statute Is Not Extraterritorial
On December 21, 1988, a bomb planted onboard brought down Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 more on the ground. By special agreement, two Libyan intelligence agents were tried for the bombing by a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands. One was acquitted and the other…
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