{"id":60827,"date":"2026-09-15T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lockerbie-bombing-intended-to-inflict-pain-and-horror-us-court-told\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:42:07","slug":"lockerbie-bombing-intended-to-inflict-pain-and-horror-us-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lockerbie-bombing-intended-to-inflict-pain-and-horror-us-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockerbie bombing intended &#8216;to inflict pain and horror&#8217;, US court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie 37 years ago was intended to inflict &#8220;pain and horror,&#8221; a judge has been told.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US government made the claim as it argued that relatives of the victims should be allowed to give evidence during the trial of a Libyan suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors believe their testimony will help the jury understand the impact of the attack, which killed 270 people on December 21, 1988.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They made the request during the latest hearing on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq63rmj1zl1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> long-delayed case<\/a> at the District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man facing trial, Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, was handed over to FBI agents in Libya in 2022 and has been in US custody for nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has denied building and priming the bomb which brought down the plane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c98r6mkyk1eyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie 37 years ago was intended to inflict &#8220;pain and horror,&#8221; a judge has been told. The US government made the claim as it argued that relatives of the victims should be allowed to give evidence during the trial of a Libyan suspect. Prosecutors believe their testimony will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[298,595,8082,15438,16734,869,5424,99],"class_list":["post-60827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-bombing","tag-court","tag-horror","tag-inflict","tag-intended","tag-lockerbie","tag-pain","tag-told"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60829,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827\/revisions\/60829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}