U.N. Security Council Continues Libya Sanctions as Allies Threaten Sanctions for Failure to Extradite in Pan Am 103 Bombing

On August 13, 1993, the United Nations Security Council voted for the fourth time to continue its own sanctions against Libya for refusing to surrender two suspects, both of whom have been indicted in connection with the explosion of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. Meanwhile, the United States, Britain and France issued a new warning to Libya, giving it until October 1, 1993 to extradite the two suspects in the bombing in which 270 people died…[more]