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- WORLD, Page 33World NotesWEST GERMANYA Bombmaker Who Got Away
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- Recriminations keep dogging the tragedy of Pan Am Flight
- 103, which blew up last December over Lockerbie, Scotland,
- killing 270. Britain's Ministry of Transport came under fire for
- having failed to respond soon enough to terrorist bomb threats
- against U.S. airliners. Last week West German officials were
- embarrassed by charges that Bonn may have fumbled a chance to
- prevent the bomb from being smuggled onto the plane.
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- The West German weekly Stern charged that Marwan Khreesat,
- a Jordanian expert in barometric explosives, was arrested in
- West Germany six weeks before the Lockerbie disaster, along with
- 15 other suspected terrorists. Fourteen, including Khreesat,
- were released for lack of evidence. Stern said it had learned
- that Khreesat had been recruited as an informant for West
- German intelligence, implying that was the reason he was let go.
- Though American officials have reportedly confirmed the story,
- the Bonn government flatly denied it.
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