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The Bombing Of Pan Am Flight 103: Ten Years Later
Co-sponsored by The Georgetown University National Security Studies,
The James Madison Project and the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc.
Held: December 1, 1998, Washington, D.C.

FOR RELEASE: DECEMBER 9, 1998

        THAT there is widespread support for a criminal trial of the two alleged Libyan intelligence agents to be held in the Hague, Netherlands under Scottish laws of evidence and procedure at the earliest possible date;

        THAT a criminal trial in no way obviates the need for civil actions and trials against the Government of Libya in the courts of the United States as a means for holding Libya accountable for its acts of international terrorism, particularly with regard to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103;

        THAT the United Nations Security Council should strengthen the international sanctions imposed upon Libya should it refuse the offer of the United States and  United Kingdom to hold a criminal trial in the Hague;

        THAT the United States Departments of Justice and State should proceed on the assumption that justice for the families of the victims can be achieved through civil as well as criminal means, and that a judgment obtained in the civil actions now pending in the United States against the Government of Libya should be pursued until full payment is made.
 

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*As noted by Mark S. Zaid, Executive Director. These statements do not
necessarily reflect the views of any of the sponsoring or co-sponsoring
organizations or participants.