No, you don t understand, Sally remembered saying. He was so excited about coming home for Christmas.
In the years to follow, the Berrells, including Sally, Bob, Rob, sister Martha and their families, watched as the case vexed federal law enforcement in the deaths of the 259 people on the flight and 11 killed on the ground.
Watch Barr give remarks on the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103:
Libya resisted for years extraditing two others charged in the case, Libyan intelligence operative Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and his alleged accomplice Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, to the United States. In response, the United Nations and the United States imposed stiff economic sanctions and penalties on Libya.
Pan Am Flight 103 crash site, Lockerbie, Scotland.
Photo: FBI Archives
FARGO (KFGO) – Thirty-two years to the day, federal investigators announced charges Monday against a Libyan man accused of being a bomb-maker in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people, including a young Fargo man.
The suspect, a former Libyan intelligence officer and an explosives expert, Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi is not yet in U.S. custody and is currently in prison in Libya.
Steve Berrell, the 20-year-old son of Bob and Sally Berrell of Fargo, was part of a group of 35 students from New York’s Syracuse University who were returning from a trip to Europe when the aircraft exploded.
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