Lockerbie bombing

God’s Justice & Lockerbie Bombing

Mark Tooley on December 19, 2022

God’s justice doesn’t sleep forever. On Dec. 21, 1988, a Libyan-planted bomb blasted Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It killed 270 people, including 190 Americans and passengers from 21 other countries, plus 11 people crushed on the ground. Thirty-five passengers were Syracuse University students returning from study in Europe.

It was the deadliest terror attack aimed at the United States until 9/11.

But just days ago, on Dec. 12, former Libyan intelligence operative Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi (Mas’ud), age 71, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on federal charges of destroying the aircraft. Families of Mas’ud’s victims were in the courtroom to confront him for the first time.

(Read here.)

  1. Comment by Theodore Miner on December 20, 2022 at 9:23 am

    God’s holiness shines bright when His justice is revealed. But let us tremble. God will not be mocked and when his judgement towards our country is revealed, there will be much confusion and wailing. We have received much light and have rebelled against Him.

    This is what the Lord says:
    “For three sins of [America],
    even for four, I will not relent.
    Because they have rejected the law of the Lord
    and have not kept his decrees,
    because they have been led astray by false gods,
    the gods their ancestors followed,
    I will send fire on [America]
    that will consume their fortresses .”
    – Amos 2:4 (edited)

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