DATE=12/19/98 TYPE=ON THE LINE NUMBER=1-00697 TITLE=THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING: TEN YEARS LATER EDITOR=OFFICE OF POLICY - 619-0037 CONTENT= THEME: UP, HOLD UNDER AND FADE ANNCR: ON THE LINE -- A DISCUSSION OF UNITED STATES POLICIES AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. THIS WEEK, ! "THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING: TEN YEARS LATER." HERE ! IS YOUR HOST, ROBERT REILLY/ HOST: HELLO AND WELCOME UO ON THE LINE. THIS MOOTH MARKS THE!TENTH AONIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE!MOST ! SAVAGE ACTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM EVER COMMITTED. ON DECEMBER 21ST, 1988, A BOMB EXPLODED ABOARD PAN AMERICAN FLIGHT 103, THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE VILLAGE OF LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND. TWO-HUNDRED SEVENTY MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM TWENTY-ONE NATIONS LOST THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING NEARLY TWO HUNDRED AMERICANS. THE LIBYAN TERRORISTS WHO ARE SUSPECTED OF BLOWING UP PAN AMERICAN FLIGHT 103 REMAIN AT LARGE. "WE OWE IT TO ALL OF OUR CITIZENS," SAID PRESIDENT CLINTON, "TO INCREASE OUR EFFORTS TO DETER TERRORISM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS KIND OF HIDEOUS ACT ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE." JOINING ME TODAY TO DISCUSS THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING AND U.S. POLICY ARE THREE EXPERTS. YONAH ALEXANDER IS DIRECTOR OF THE TERRORISM STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND FOUNDING EDITOR OF TERRORISM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL. DAVID SCHENKER IS RESEARCH FELLOW AND SPECIALIST IN ARAB POLITICS AT THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY. AND ANTHONY FAINBERG IS DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY POLICY AT THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM. MR. FAINBERG, LET ME START WITH YOU. I KNOW THAT IN ANSWERING THIS QUESTION, YOU CAN'T REVEAL ANY SENSITIVE SECURITY MATERIAL, BUT BASICALLY, TEN YEARS AGO, WHAT WENT WRONG? HOW WERE THESE TERRORISTS ABLE TO PENETRATE THE SECURITY THAT EXISTED AT THAT TIME AND BLOW UP THIS AIRLINE? FAINBERG: I THINK IT'S GENERALLY KNOWN AND HAS BEEN IN FACT DISCUSSED IN SOME COURT MATTERS THAT A BAG WHICH HAD ARRIVED ON A FEEDER FLIGHT FROM MALTA TO FRANKFURT WAS PLACED IN THE CARGO HOLD OF PAN AM 103 WITHOUT AN ACCOMPANYING PASSENGER. THERE HAD BEEN NO PASSENGER ASSOCIATED WITH THAT BAG, PRESUMABLY HAVING BEEN PUT ABOARD THE PLANE IN MALTA WITH FORWARDING INSTRUCTIONS OR TICKETS TO FRANKFURT AND TO THE UNITED STATES BY SOMEONE INTENT ON DOING THE PLANE HARM. THE AIR CARRIER WAS IN FACT SUPPOSED TO ASSURE, UNDER SECURITY PROGRAMS AND ARRANGEMENTS F-A-A [FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION] HAS WITH AMERICAN CARRIERS, THAT SUCH DOES NOT HAPPEN, THAT THE BAG SHOULD NOT GO ON THE PLANE WITHOUT HAVING AN AIR PASSENGER ON BOARD. THIS WAS A FAILURE OF THE SYSTEM AND A FAILURE TO FOLLOW F-A-A'S SECURITY PROGRAMS IN FACT. HOST: COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN? FAINBERG: I'D HESITATE TO SAY IT COULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAPPEN AGAIN, BUT SINCE THEN, MANY, MANY THINGS HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING THE LEVEL OF OUR OVERSIGHT OF CARRIERS' SECURITY POLICIES AND, IN FACT, SECURITY POLICIES HAVE CHANGED AND HAVE BECOME A LOT MORE STRONGER AND STRINGENT, NOT ONLY IN THE AREA OF UNACCOMPANIED BAGS, BUT IN MANY, MANY OTHER AREAS AS WELL. AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF PUTTING AN EXPLOSIVE ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT. AN UNACCOMPANIED BAG IS ONE WAY. ANOTHER WAY IS FOR PASSENGERS TO LEAVE SOMETHING IN THE CABIN AND GET OFF ON AN INTERMEDIATE FLIGHT. THERE ARE MANY OTHER WAYS AS WELL, AND WE'VE TRIED TO PLUG THE HOLES AS BEST WE CAN. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PROGRESS MADE IN TERMS OF PROCEDURES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. HOST: YONAH ALEXANDER, TURNING TO THE TERRORIST ASPECT OF THIS ACT, TERRORIST ACTS HAVE A POLITICAL PURPOSE. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF BLOWING UP ALL THESE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OVER SCOTLAND? ALEXANDER: OBVIOUSLY, THE ISSUE HERE IS WHO PERPETRATED THESE ACTS? SO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE INTENT AND MOTIVATION. NOW, I THINK IT'S ESTABLISHED THAT THE TWO LIBYANS, INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES, WERE INVOLVED. THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF SPECULATION BECAUSE GADHAFI ACTUALLY ORCHESTRATED THIS EVENT AND THERE IS SPECULATION, BECAUSE [LIBYAN DICTATOR MOAMMAR] GADHAFI WOULDN'T ADMIT THAT HE'S ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE, THE BUCK STOPS THERE. BUT IT COULD BE REVENGE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. HOST: FOR WHAT? ALEXANDER: FOR THE U.S. POLICIES AND ACTIONS RELATED TO THE MIDDLE EAST. AS YOU KNOW, LIBYA CANNOT FACE THE UNITED STATES EYEBALL TO EYEBALL ON THE BATTLE FIELD. AND WHAT BETTER WAY DO YOU HAVE THAN TO RESORT TO TERRORISM, WHICH IS ACTUALLY VERY INEXPENSIVE TO ACTIVATE AND VERY DIFFICULT TO COUNTER? HOST: DAVID SCHENKER, WHAT IS YOUR APPRAISAL OF THAT? SCHENKER: I THINK THAT'S ACCURATE. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD SAY THAT THE BOMBING OF THE PAN AM LOCKERBIE FLIGHT WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE '86 RESPONSE BY THE UNITED STATES WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT LIBYA HAD BOMBED THE LA BELLE DISCO, KILLING TWO AMERICAN [SOLDIERS]. FOLLOWING THAT, THE UNITED STATES INTERCEPTED A COMMUNIQUE AND BOMBED THE HOME OF GADHAFI AND APPARENTLY KILLED HIS DAUGHTER. AND ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER LOCKERBIE EXPLODED. HOST: YET SOME MADE THE STATEMENT THAT THE U.S. RETALIATION FOR THE BOMBING OF THE LA BELLE DISCO IN BERLIN ACTUALLY QUIETED GADHAFI DOWN FOR A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME. BUT YOU'RE SAYING ACTUALLY NOT, HE RETALIATED THROUGH THIS ACTION. SCHENKER: IT MAY BE PERCEIVED AS BEING RETALIATION. I DO BELIEVE THERE IS A LENGTHY PERIOD OF QUIET AND THAT IT DID SERVE AS A DETERRENT. WE HAVEN'T REALLY HEARD MUCH FROM GADHAFI SINCE, MINUS THE [FRENCH] U-T-A [AIRLINE] BOMBING. HOST: AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE UNITED STATES DIDN'T JUMP TO ANY CONCLUSIONS AS TO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BOMBING. IT TOOK A PERIOD OF TIME TO ESTABLISH WHO THE CULPRITS WERE. MR. FAINBERG, COULD YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT? FAINBERG: YES. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS AN IDEA WHO THE CULPRITS ARE AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE PRESSING AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR A TRIAL OF THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS. I, COMING FROM THE F-A-A, AM NOT FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OR FROM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, SO I DON'T THINK I WANT TO COMMENT ANY FURTHER ON THAT. BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME WHEN A LOT OF FORENSIC WORK WAS DONE IN LOCKERBIE. THE FIRST FORENSIC WORK THAT WAS DONE WAS TO UNDERSTAND IF IT WAS A BOMB THAT CAUSED THE AIRCRAFT TO CRASH. IN FACT, IT WAS. AND YOU FIND THAT OUT BY LOOKING FOR RESIDUE OF EXPLOSIVES. AND YOU LOOK AT THE WAY METAL IS BENT IN THE AREA AROUND WHERE THE BOMB WENT OFF, AND FOR MATERIAL PROJECTED INTO THE METAL BY HIGH VELOCITY OF THE SHOCK WAVE. ALL THAT WAS THERE. AND THEN, I THINK SOME WEEKS LATER, IN THE VERY METICULOUS SEARCHING THAT THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES DID, A SMALL PIECE OF A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD WAS DISCOVERED SOME DISTANCE AWAY, ACTUALLY, FROM WHERE THE MAIN BODY OF THE PLANE CRASHED. AND I BELIEVE -- IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY -- THAT THAT PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD WAS CORRELATED AND LOOKED VERY SIMILAR TO A TIMING DEVICE ON ANOTHER BOMB THAT HAD BEEN DISCOVERED IN EUROPE WHICH HAD NOT EXPLODED. AND THAT WAS PROBABLY THE PATHWAY BY WHICH WE HAVE GONE BACK AND FOUND PEOPLE THAT WE SUSPECT MAY HAVE BEEN THE PERPETRATORS. HOST: AND IN FACT THEIR NAMES ARE ABD AL-BASIT AL-MAGRAHI AND LAMIN FHIMAH. ONE OF THEM WAS A KNOWN LIBYAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE AND THE OTHER WORKED IN THE LIBYAN AIRLINE OFFICE IN MALTA. NOW, SUPPOSEDLY, THEY ARE BOTH BACK IN LIBYA UNDER GADHAFI'S PROTECTION. IS THAT CORRECT? ALEXANDER: ABSOLUTELY. HE REALLY CALLS THE SHOTS. HE CAN DETERMINE TODAY, TOMORROW THAT THESE PEOPLE SHOULD STAND TRIAL AS REQUESTED BY THE UNITED STATES AND THE U-K AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. IN FACT, IT SEEMS TO ME THIS IS A PERVERSION OF THE RULE OF LAW IF WE ALLOW THIS KIND OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE WITHOUT SOME SORT OF ACCOUNTABILITY. HOST: ACTUALLY, DAVID SCHENKER, YOU MENTIONED BRIEFLY THE BOMBING THAT FOLLOWED PAN AM 103, AND THAT WAS UTA FLIGHT 772, IN WHICH ANOTHER HUNDRED AND SEVENTY PEOPLE WERE KILLED. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE COMPLICITY OF LIBYA IN THAT TERRORIST ACT? SCHENKER: SURE. THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF GADHAFI, WHO IS HEAD OF THE LARGEST INTELLIGENCE OPERATION IN THE COUNTRY, WAS ACTUALLY IMPLICATED AND INDICTED BY THE FRENCH FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS OPERATION. AND A NUMBER OF FACTORS HAVE CONTRIBUTED LATELY TO PERHAPS A CHANGE IN HEART OF GADHAFI. IT WAS EARLIER SAID THAT THERE WOULD BE NO WAY THAT GADHAFI WOULD TURN OVER THE TWO SUSPECTS FROM PAN AM 103, BECAUSE THEY WOULD IMPLICATE THE GOVERNMENT. NOW, THERE MAY BE SIGNS THAT GADHAFI WILL GIVE OVER, OR AT LEAST TRY SOME OF THESE INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS. THERE WAS A REPORT RECENTLY THAT THE THREE TOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS, INCLUDING ABDULLAH AL-SANUSI, THE BROTHER-IN-LAW OF GADHAFI, WERE ARRESTED FOR QUOTE, UNQUOTE, DERELICTION OF DUTY. THIS SEEMS TO BE POINTING TO, PERHAPS, THAT GADHAFI IS SAYING THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE OPERATING AS A ROGUE OPERATION, THAT THE REGIME HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT HAD OCCURRED, WHICH IS VERY INTERESTING. AND THIS IS, PERHAPS, BECAUSE OF SOME DOMESTIC SITUATION IN LIBYA THAT, IN THE EIGHTIES, THERE WAS TWENTY-FIVE BILLION IN OIL REVENUES. BECAUSE OIL PRICES HAVE DROPPED, IT'S ONLY FOUR POINT FIVE BILLION IN OIL REVENUES A YEAR. ALSO, THERE WAS AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON GADHAFI IN JUNE 1998. SO HE MAY BE FEELING SOME PRESSURE. HOST: THE EVIDENCE THAT MR. FAINBERG ALLUDED TO WAS CERTAINLY CONVINCING ENOUGH TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THAT THE UNITED NATIONS HAS REPEATEDLY PASSED RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING LIBYA AND REQUIRING THEM TO TURN OVER THE SUSPECTS, PAY DAMAGES TO THE VICTIMS' FAMILIES AND TO CEASE AND DESIST FROM TERRORIST ACTIVITIES. WHAT HAS THAT RESULTED IN? ALEXANDER: I MEAN, CLEARLY,!THE MORAL WEIGHT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS VERY IMPORTANT. BUT WE HAVE TO REALIZE WHAT THE UNITED NATIONS CAN AND CANNOT DO. THEY CAN PASS RESOLUTIONS, WHICH IS USEFUL. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IN A PRACTICAL WAY YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CONCRETE RESULTS. IT TOOK TEN YEARS EVEN FOR GADHAFI TO SAY YES, WE'RE WILLING TO COOPERATE. AND NOTHING REALLY HAPPENED. I BELIEVE THAT UNLESS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WOULD UNDERTAKE SOME STRONGER MEASURES TO ISOLATE LIBYA COMPLETELY AS A PARIAH NATION AND PERHAPS TO USE AS A LAST RESORT EVEN FORCE, I DON'T THINK THAT GADHAFI WOULD BE WILLING TO COOPERATE FULLY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. SO IT'S A SIMILAR CASE, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE DIFFERENCES, WITH IRAQ, WITH SADDAM. YOU MUST CARRY A BIG STICK AND SOMETIMES USE IT IF THERE ARE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES. HOST: OF COURSE THERE ARE SANCTIONS ON LIBYA NOW. AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS PASSED AND THE PRESIDENT SIGNED OVER A YEAR AGO THE IRAN-LIBYA OIL SANCTIONS ACT. DOES MORE NEED TO BE DONE THERE, MR. SCHENKER? YOU MENTIONED THE DECLINE IN OIL PRICES, WHICH MAKES THE LIBYAN REGIME PERHAPS MORE VULNERABLE. CAN MORE BE DONE WITH THOSE SANCTIONS? SCHENKER: LIBYA STILL HAS BEEN ABLE TO SELL OIL. IT'S PRIMARILY THE DECLINING PRICES PER BARREL THAT HAVE REALLY HURT THEM. RECENTLY A REPORT CAME OUT THAT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PAY THEIR GOVERNMENT WAGES. THIS IS TRULY GOING TO HURT THE REGIME. THE BORDERS ARE, FOR THE MOST PART, NOT SANCTIONED LIKE IRAQ. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S POROUS. THERE IS OPEN TRADE OF GOODS AND SERVICES GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TUNISIA AND LIBYA. HOST: LET ME TURN TO THE OTHER SUBJECT THAT IS IN THE NEWS NOW AND THAT IS THE POTENTIAL TRIAL OF THE SUSPECTS. THE UNITED STATES FOR A LONG TIME INSISTED THAT A TRIAL BE HELD EITHER IN THE UNITED STATES OR GREAT BRITAIN. ONLY RECENTLY DID THE UNITED STATES CHANGE ITS POSITION TO SAY THAT A TRIAL IN THE HAGUE WITH SCOTTISH JUDGES MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE. WHY DID THE UNITED STATES CHANGE THAT POSITION, AND WAS IT THE RIGHT THING TO DO, YONAH ALEXANDER? ALEXANDER: IN A PRACTICAL WAY, WE ARE REALLY MARKING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS TERRIBLE INCIDENT AND IT TOOK THAT LONG EVEN TO FIND SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE. WE CANNOT WAIT TO EXECUTE JUSTICE INDEFINITELY. SO THE POINT IS, THE UNITED STATES AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENTS DECIDED THAT PERHAPS THIS IS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE. UNFORTUNATELY, WE SEE THAT LIBYA SAYS WELL YES, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. AND THEN IT'S NOT BEING DONE. SO, I THINK AGAIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO GADHAFI THAT THE UNITED NATIONS CANNOT ACCEPT THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR AND TRY TO FIND SOME SORT OF SOLUTION AND NOT HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER TEN YEARS IN ORDER TO BRING THESE PEOPLE TO TRIAL. SCHENKER: IT APPEARS THAT IT'S ACCEPTABLE FOR THE UNITED STATES TO HAVE THESE PEOPLE TRIED IN THIS TYPE OF SITUATION. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THEY HAVE TO BE PUNISHED ACCORDING TO WESTERN STANDARDS. THE LIBYANS HAVE AGREED TO HAVE THE TRIAL, BUT THEY DON'T WANT THESE TERRORISTS INCARCERATED IN EUROPE FOR FEAR THAT THEY WILL EVENTUALLY IMPLICATE THE LIBYAN GOVERNMENT AT A HIGH LEVEL IN THIS TERRORIST ATTACK. SO, AS LONG AS GADHAFI REFUSES TO LET THESE PEOPLE BE TRIED AND PUNISHED, IF NEED BE, IN EUROPE THERE WILL BE NO DEAL. HOST: SO HIS SEEMING AGREEMENT HERE COULD BE A PLOY TO JUST STRING THIS THING OUT AND LET THE FORCES UNDERMINING THE SANCTIONS THAT ARE IN PLACE WEAKEN THEM? SCHENKER: I THINK THAT'S A GOOD ASSESSMENT. AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT HE WILL DO IS TRY AND PROVE DOMESTICALLY THAT THIS WAS A ROGUE OPERATION AND TRY AND UNDERCUT ANY POTENTIAL TIES TO THE REGIME. HOST: OKAY. MR. FAINBERG, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEN YEARS, AND WITHOUT REVEALING SECURITY INFORMATION, ARE YOU MORE CONFIDENT TODAY THAT THE AWARENESS OF POTENTIAL TERRORIST ACTS HAS REACHED THE LEVEL THAT THIS KIND OF THING -- AS YOU SAY, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE -- BUT TO MAKE IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT IS POSSIBLE. FAINBERG: I THINK IT'S A LOT MORE DIFFICULT TODAY THAN IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO TO DO SOMETHING OF THIS SORT AGAINST U.S. OR WORLD CIVIL AVIATION. IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND YEARS, IT WILL GROW PROGRESSIVELY MORE DIFFICULT. HOST: WHY? FAINBERG: FIRST OF ALL, SINCE 1989-1990, WE HAVE INSTALLED A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF SECURITY MEASURES AND SECURITY PROCEDURES. WE HAVE IMPROVED THE INTELLIGENCE FLOW, FOR EXAMPLE, BETWEEN F-A-A AND THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS A PROBLEM BEFORE. SO WE HAVE VERY GOOD COMMUNICATIONS NOW AND WE KNOW FULL WELL IN REAL TIME WHAT OTHER PEOPLE KNOW IN THE GOVERNMENT. WE'VE PUT FEDERAL SECURITY MANAGERS AT MANY OG OUR MOST IMPORTANT ! AIRPORTS AT HOME, AND CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY LIAISON OFFICIALS OVERSEAS AT SOME TWENTY LOCATIONS. PERHAPS MOST INTERESTING AND MOST VISIBLE IS THAT WE HAVE BEGUN IN THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS DEPLOYING A LARGE NUMBER OF PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, OF TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH CAN DETECT BOMBS IN VARIOUS WAYS. AT DOMESTIC AIRPORTS, WE HAVE DEPLOYED OVER THREE HUNDRED OF THEM IN THIS PAST YEAR AND WILL DEPLOY MANY MORE IN THE TIME TO COME. OVERSEAS, OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALSO DEPLOYED THE SAME THING. WHAT I'M REFERRING TO -- THESE THREE HUNDRED ODD DEVICES -- ARE CHEMICAL SNIFFERS, AND PEOPLE AT U.S. AIRPORTS HAVE SEEN THEM FROM TIME TO TIME GOING THROUGH GATES AT CHECK-IN. CHECKED BAGGAGE IS BEGINNING TO BE SCREENED BY OUR EXPLOSIVE DETECTION EQUIPMENT, WHICH WAS ONLY CERTIFIED SOME FOUR YEARS AGO AND WHICH IS NOW BEING DEPLOYED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. AND OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE BOUGHT THE SAME EQUIPMENT AND DEPLOYED THEM OVERSEAS. CLEARLY, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WHERE THEY ARE, BUT I CAN SAY THAT RIGHT NOW THERE ARE WELL IN EXCESS OF SIXTY OF THEM AND WE'RE HEADING TOWARDS OVER A HUNDRED IN THE NEAR FUTURE DOMESTICALLY. HOST: SO, THERE'S A THOROUGH APPROACH. I'M AFRAID THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE THIS WEEK. I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR GUESTS -- YONAH ALEXANDER FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY; DAVID SCHENKER FROM THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY; AND ANTHONY FAINBERG FROM THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION -- FOR JOINING ME TO DISCUSS THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING AND U.S. POLICY. THIS IS ROBERT REILLY FOR ON THE LINE. 18-Dec-98 1:31 PM EST (1831 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .