OVER 400 “victims” of the Lockerbie bombing have been identified by the FBI.
Federal agents launched the international search to find anybody who had been impacted by the 1988 terror attack.
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Lawmakers are deciding how to allow victims of the atrocity to have remote access to the trial of alleged bombmaker Abu Agila Masud – no matter where they are.
The FBI launched a survey calling for anyone impacted by the bombing to come forward, BBC Scotland reports.
It asked anybody who was in or near Lockerbie when Pan Am flight 103 exploded or who suffered direct or proximate harm from the attack to respond to the survey.
It took into account any physical or emotional injury people suffered as a result of the bombing.
Relatives of the 259 passengers and crew onboard the plane or the 11 locals in Lockerbie who were killed when wreckage destroyed their homes were asked to make themselves known.
The survey identified 417 victims impacted by the horrific attack.
Around 100 victims are in Scotland, with 32 in Lockerbie.
Respondents came from a variety of countries including the Netherlands, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Canada, Mozambique, Australia and Jamaica.
A total of 244 respondents came from the US and 164 from the UK.
Pan Am Flight 103 blew up in the sky 31,000ft over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, just 38 minutes after taking off.
The attack shocked the world and prompted an investigation that has stretched over decades.
All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed along with 11 residents on the ground.
Among the victims were 190 Americans – including 35 students from Syracuse University in upstate New York who were flying home after a semester abroad.
Following a three-year investigation by local police and the FBI, two Libyans were issued with arrest warrants for murder.
In 1999 Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan leader handed over the men for trial and eventually, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life in 2001 after being convicted of 270 counts of murder.
However, the Scottish Government released him back to his homeland on compassionate grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
He died in Tripoli three years later in 2012, protesting his innocence.
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Abu Agila Masud was said to be the “third conspirator” behind the horrific act in 1988.
He has been accused of building the bomb which downed Pan Am Flight 103 and is due to stand trial in Washington DC next May.
