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WORLD, Page 33World NotesWEST GERMANYA Bombmaker Who Got Away
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.
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.