Three Michigan toddlers and their mothers, a former Detroit schoolteacher seeking to surprise her family for Christmas, local Army veterans, teens and executives were onboard when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Now, 32 years later, outgoing Attorney General William Barr has announced charges against another suspect in the bombing that killed 270 people, including 16 people with Michigan ties.
Abu Agila Muhammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is accused of making the bomb used in the attack on the New York-bound flight from London amid the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
Two Libyan intelligence officers, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were previously charged in a special Scottish court in the attack. Al-Megrahi was convicted but Fhimah was acquitted.
Fauci Urges Calm Over CCP Virus Variant, Advises Against UK Travel Ban
Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House pandemic task force, said on Monday that he does not recommend imposing a travel ban on the United Kingdom, where a new mutant strain of the CCP virus is prevalent.
During an interview with CNN, Fauci said the U.S. government should “without a doubt keep an eye” on the situation in the UK, but also not to “overreact.”
“Follow it carefully, but don’t overreact to it,” Fauci added.
British health officials warned over the weekend that the virus mutation “can spread more quickly” and was responsible for 60 percent of new infections in London. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control also said that preliminary analysis suggests the new variant is “significantly more transmissible,” although there is so far no evidence that it is more lethal.
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Passengers flying from Britain to New York with British Airways or Delta will have to first test negative for coronavirus, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday.
Later on Monday evening, Virgin Atlantic also joined with the measures introduced by the BA and Delta, requiring a negative virus test result from all passengers boarding any New York-bound flight.
The airlines agreed to the measures over growing concerns about the fast-spreading variant of Covid-19 that has prompted more than more than 40 countries to suspend flights from the UK. Starting tomorrow @British Airways will require passengers on UK flights to NY to show a negative Covid test before departure, Mr Cuomo tweeted, later adding that Delta had agreed to the same.
Cuomo Orders NY Hospitals to Test for UK Strain; NYC Warns ‘Our Room for Error Is Even Less According to the CDC, the new strain could already be circulating in the U.S. undetected; scientists have sequenced genetic coding from less than 0.3% of U.S. cases, so it could easily have slipped through unnoticed
Published December 22, 2020 •
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 1:58 am
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