Trial testimony

January 8, 2001 -- Testimony ends when lawyers for the two defendants, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, close their case after calling just three witnesses.

December 5, 2000 -- Defense opens its case by challenging the testimony of a Maltese shopkeeper who said he sold clothes that were allegedly used to help conceal bomb in a suitcase to Al Megrahi on a rainy day. A retired meteorologist testified that it was unlikely that there was any rain in the area that day.

November 20, 2000 -- Veteran American journalist Pierre Salinger testified about an interview he conducted with the two Libyan suspects. Salinger said he knew who was responsible for the bombing and complained that he was not allowed to tell the court.

November 16, 2000 -- Prosecutors question Libyan secret service agent Mansour Omran Ammar Saber about a 1998 arrest in Dakar, Senegal, after authorities allegedly found explosives and timers in his baggage. Authorities alleged Saber and other Libyan agents supplied the materials used in the bombing. Saber denied any knowledge of the bombing.

November 10, 2000 -- Mohammed Abu Talb, a Palestinian man convicted of bombing Jewish and American targets in Sweden testifies that he was not involved in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

October 6, 2000 -- In an effort to pre-empt the defense, prosecutors call Iranian Parviz Taheri, who had flown on TWA flight 800 from Frankfurt, Germany, to London, England, and disembarked before the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The defense had planned to call Taheri to help prove its theory that Palestinian terrorists were responsible for the bombing.

October 5, 2000 -- Scottish court rules that the diary of Libyan Lamen Khalifa Fhimah is admissible, despite the defense's claim that it was seized illegally. The diary allegedly had many entries to co-defendant Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi along with an entry after the bombing which read: "Take/collect tags from Air Malta." Next to it was the annotation: "OK"

September 26, 2000 -- Abdul Majid Giaka, a former Libyan spy and key prosecution witness, testifies to have seen the two Libyan defendants take a Samsonite suitcase through customs in Malta without having it inspected. The defendants allegedly loaded the suitcase, filled with explosives, onto a plane in Malta, which then flew through Frankfurt, Germany, to be delivered to the Pan Am plane in London.

The defense brands Giaka as a liar who made up information under pressure from the CIA, who, according to cable dispatches, threatened to cut off his payroll payments if he did not come up with information on the case.

August 28, 2000 -- In an unprecedented move, the CIA releases to the Scottish Courts restored, secret dispatches between the U.S. intelligence agency and Abdul Majid Giaka, a CIA spy. The cables, released almost in their entirety, were filed between August 10, 1988 and August 31, 1989 and contain information relevant to the December, 1988 bombing.

August 23, 2000 -- Maltese police inspector John Ellul, testifies that during a 1996 murder investigation, he came across three metal biscuit boxes containing wires and the plastic explosive Semtex, wrapped in Libyan newspaper.

Ex-double agent, Abdul Majid Giaka, who lives in the United States under the federal witness protection program, is scheduled to testify for the prosecution on Monday, August 28. He has requested to be hidden from the court by screens and voice distortion.

Prosecutors say CIA officials are expected to declassify censored debriefings.

August 22, 2000 -- Though the Scottish Court has no jurisdiction over the CIA, they have asked the America intelligence agency to declassify blacked-out sections of several wire cables the defense says is essential to its case. The prosecution claims the sections bear no relevance to the case and were censored for reasons of U.S. national security.

July 18, 2000 -- In testimony, Air Malta official Martin Baron confirmed the authenticity of immigration cards that show Fhimah and Al-Megrahi entered Malta on December 20, 1988, and left the country on December 21, the same day that Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Two Toshiba Corp. employees testified that a Libyan state firm took delivery of 20,000 stereo cassette recorders in 1988 similar to the one authorities say was used to hide the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103.

July 17, 2000 -- Maltese travel agents testified that Al-Megrahi frequently checked in luggage at Malta's Luqa Airport on behalf of passengers.

July 14, 2000 -- Luqa Airport Ground Operations General Manager Wilfred Borg testified that security was tight at the airport and that the chances of smuggling a bomb aboard a plane were "extremely remote."

The defense introduced a record showing that Mohammed Abu Talb, a Palestinian serving a life sentence for terrorist bombing, had reservations on a return flight to Malta from Stockholm that was valid until November 1988.

July 12, 2000 -- Trial is forced to adjourn after a group of Malta airport workers refused to testify. The court does not have authority to summon non-British witnesses.

July 11, 2000 -- A Maltese shopkeeper testified that he sold Al-Megrahi clothes that authorities say were packed around the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103.

June 29, 2000 -- The designer of the timer suspected of setting off Pan Am Flight 103 bomb testified that he thought the owner of his company was selling them to the East German secret police.

June 28, 2000 -- Former officers in the East German secret police testified that the owner of the Swiss company that made the timer allegedly used in the Lockerbie bombing sold similar timers to them along with lie detectors and other espionage tools. They testified that they suspected the company also had ties to the IRA, the ETA and other terrorist groups.

June 19, 2000 -- A co-owner of Zurich electronics firm MEBO began several days of testimony in which he said his company made timers like the one allegedly used to set off the Pan Am Flight 103 bomb. Edwin Bollier said that he sold at least 25 of the timers to Libya in 1985 before the bombing and wrote a letter to the CIA that said Libya was to blame for the attack. The defense accused Bollier of making up the story to hide his connections to East Germany, Syria and a number of terrorist groups.

June 16, 2000 -- A co-owner of Swiss electronic firm MEBO testified that his company got a rush order for timers from the Libyan Army a few weeks before the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Erwin Meister testified that he was unable to provide the timers Libya requested and that the army rejected the Olympus timers his company tried to sell them. He said one of the rejected timers was set for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 went off shortly after 7 p.m. on a Wednesday.

June 9, 2000 -- Attorneys for defendants Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima complained that their clients were not being given complete translations of witness testimony. The mistake could be grounds for an appeal if the two men are convicted.

June 8, 2000 -- Two CIA agents described bomb-making paraphernalia seized in West Africa that they said could link Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima to the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. British investigator William Williamson testified that the timers confiscated in Senegal matched a fingernail-sized circuit board fragment that was recovered from the plane's wreckage.

May 9, 2000 -- Detective Duncan McInnes testified about how wreckage was collected after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Under cross-examination, McInnes said that there was too much evidence to label every piece and that it would be impossible to say where a particular piece of wreckage was found and who found it.

May 3, 2000 -- Trial of Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima opens at Camp Zeist, Netherlands. The prosecution's first witness was an air traffic controller at London's Heathrow Airport, who described how Pan Am Flight 103 disappeared from his radar screen.