The first U.S. trial for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been postponed just days before jury selection, leaving the families of 190 murdered Americans staring down nearly four decades of deferred justice because the system still can't get its act together.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Monday halted the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the former Libyan intelligence official charged with building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The reason: prosecutors disclosed new evidence to the defense on Saturday — three days before jury selection was set to begin Wednesday. Friedrich scheduled a September 1 status hearing but offered no details on what the new evidence is.
Al-Marimi's public defenders said their
