French Charge Six Libyans with 1989 Bombing of French Airliner

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Sunday, June 1, 1997
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
13
Issue: 
6
247-248
Abstract: 
On May 7, 1997, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French principal anti-terrorism investigating magistrate in the case, announced that he requested a court to try six high-level Libyan officials in absentia next year on charges of blowing up a French airliner and killing 171 people over the Sahara in 1989 ... [more]