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Former Secret Agent Testifies in Lockerbie Trial
A former secret agent is testifying as a key witness in the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing trial in the Netherlands.
The witness, who is being identified as Abdul Majid Giaka, is a former Libyan spy, who has defected.
He told the court he used to work undercover in Malta for Libyan Arab Airlines, with the two Libyans accused of planting the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103.
Giaka says one of the defendants had kept explosives in his office for two years before the bombing.
And, he claims, that one evening in December, 1988, the Libyans took a suitcase through customs without inspecting it.
The prosecution says the two Libyans then put a suitcase bomb on a Frankfurt-bound plane in Malta, after which the bomb was put on board the Pan Am flight.
The plane exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988, killing 270 people.
The case is being tried in a Scottish court on Dutch soil.
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