Lockerbie bombing trial pushed to January as new evidence surfaces

The trial of Libyan national Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time after newly discovered evidence emerged, pushing the start date to January in Washington, with a verdict perhaps not arriving until next spring. Al-Marimi denies building the bomb that killed 270 people, and both defense and prosecutors cited constitutional obligations to review the new material before proceeding.