Hunt the Lockerbie cable

THE Lockerbie case, which is being heard in the Netherlands under Scottish law, has been adjourned until September 21st so that the CIA, at its headquarters near Washington, can hunt for some missing cables from a Libyan double agent. The agent, identified in court as “Abdul Majid Giaka”, was working with the two defendants, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, at the Libyan Arab Airlines offices in Malta on December 21st 1988, when a Pan Am airliner blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people. His evidence is supposed to solidify the prosecution's contention that the two defendants dispatched the bomb from Malta in an unaccompanied suitcase, on behalf of Libyan intelligence.