一份据称是利比亚被告在38年前制造导致美国客机在洛克比上空坠毁的炸弹的供词副本可在其审判中使用，美国法官已作出裁决。
A copy of an alleged confession by the Libyan accused of building the bomb that brought down an American airliner over Lockerbie 38 years ago can be used at his trial, a US judge has ruled.
74岁的阿布·阿吉拉·马斯乌德·赫尔·马里米声称，他在利比亚被关押期间被三名戴面具的男子迫使其作出虚假供词。
Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, 74, has claimed he was forced by three masked men into making a false confession while in custody in Libya.
马斯乌德的律师曾向华盛顿的联邦法院提出请求，要求提前裁定该所谓供词在明年1月其审判期间不可被采纳，因为它不是原件。
Masud's lawyers asked a federal court in Washington to rule the alleged confession inadmissible in advance of his trial in January next year as it was not the original document.
但法官达布尼·弗里德里希驳回了该请求，意味着该供词可作为证据使用。被告身穿绿色囚服出庭，通过翻译聆听了庭审过程。
But Judge Dabney Friedrich denied the motion, meaning it can be used in evidence. The accused, dressed in a green prison jumpsuit, was in court where he listened to proceedings through an interpreter.
马斯乌德否认自己制造并引爆了导致泛美航空103号航班于1988年12月21日在洛克比上空坠毁、造成270人死亡的炸弹。
Mas'ud has denied building and priming the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, killing 270 people.
他坚持称，戴面具的男子命令他记忆有关泛美航空103号航班毁灭以及另一起恐怖袭击的信息。
He has insisted that the masked men men ordered him to memorise information about the destruction of Pan Am 103 and another terror attack.
马斯乌德称，在那些男子威胁其家人之后，他在胁迫下向一名利比亚官员重复了他所学到的内容。
Mas'ud said he repeated what he had learned to a Libyan official, under duress, after the men threatened his family.
他还声称，自己在“一次在深夜进行的暗中行动”后被非法从利比亚移送至美国受审。
He has also claimed he was illegally removed from Libya to stand trial in the United States after "a cloak and dagger operation conducted in the dead of night".
该所谓供词的细节首次在五年前被公开，当时美国司法部宣布将对马斯乌德因洛克比爆炸案提出指控。
Details of the alleged confession were first made public five years ago, after the US department of justice announced it was charging Mas'ud over the Lockerbie bombing.
联邦调查局编制的一份刑事诉状摘要称，他在2012年被拘留期间承认自己在袭击中扮演了关键角色，此前一年卡扎菲政权已垮台。
A criminal complaint summary compiled by the FBI claimed he had admitted playing a key role in the attack when he was in detention in 2012, following the collapse of Colonel Gaddafi's regime the previous year.
联邦调查局表示，2012年记录马斯乌德供词的利比亚官员已准备好出庭作证。
The FBI has said the Libyan official who noted Mas'ud's confession in 2012 is prepared to give evidence at his trial.
在该客机上遇难的259名乘客和机组人员中，有190人来自美国，马斯乌德的案件将在美国受审。
Of the 259 passengers and crew who died on board the airliner, 190 were from the United States, where the Mas'ud case will be tried.
迄今为止唯一的洛克比审判发生在2000年5月至2001年1月之间，当时三名苏格兰法官判定利比亚情报特工阿卜杜勒巴塞特·阿尔-梅格拉希在阴谋中扮演了关键角色。
The only Lockerbie trial so far took place between May 2000 and January 2001, when three Scottish judges convicted Libyan intelligence agent Abdulbasset al-Megrahi of playing a key role in the plot.
梅格拉希被判处终身监禁，但2009年因被诊断出患有绝症，苏格兰政府出于人道主义考虑将其释放。三年后，他在的黎波里家中去世。
Megrahi was jailed for life but released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government in 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He died three years later at home in Tripoli.