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UNCOVERED: Lockerbie bombing trial delayed over new evidence | History Defined

Pan Am Flight 103, bound for New York, was blown up 38 minutes after it took off from London, killing 270 people on Dec 21, 1988. (Photo: AFP)

WASHINGTON - A US federal judge has postponed the trial of a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, citing new evidence.

Jury selection for the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, who allegedly worked as an intelligence operative for the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi between 1973 and 2011, had been due to start on Wednesday.

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