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- WORLD, Page 40World NotesTERRORISMNarrowing the Suspects List
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- Four months after Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb
- concealed in a radio-cassette player, nobody has been charged with
- the crime. But U.S. Government sources say it is now believed that
- the bomb was carried onto the Boeing 747, apparently unknowingly,
- by a passenger who died in the explosion.
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- The U.S. sources say the investigation has narrowed down to
- between five and ten passengers. One of these is Khalid Jaafar, a
- Lebanese-American student en route from Frankfurt to Detroit to
- visit his parents. They say he could not be the unwitting bomber,
- as a photograph taken before his departure shows him carrying only
- a soft-sided bag. Still, Jaafar could have been given another
- suitcase, one containing the bomb, before boarding the doomed
- flight at Frankfurt.