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Rescue personnel carry a body away from the site of the Pan Am Flight 103 crash in the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988. Picture: REUTERS
London/Washington — A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the US, Scottish and US law enforcement officials said on Sunday.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after former US Attorney-General Bill Barr first announced the US filed charges against him.
A justice department official confirmed on Sunday that the US has taken custody of the alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker. Mas’ud is expected to make his initial court appearance in a federal court in Washington, DC.
Further details about the timing of the court hearing will be forthcoming, the spokesperson added.
The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told the suspect is in US custody, a spokesperson for Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said on Sunday.
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi speaks during an interview with Reuters TV at his home in Tripoli October 3 2011. Picture: REUTERS TV
The bomb on board the Boeing 747 en route to the US killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground, the deadliest ever militant attack in Britain.
In 1991 two other Libyan intelligence operatives were charged in the bombing: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah.
Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing and was jailed for life in 2001. He was later released because he was suffering from cancer and died in 2012. Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Scottish prosecutors have maintained that Megrahi did not act alone.
In 2020 the US unsealed criminal charges against Mas’ud, a suspected third conspirator, adding he had worked as a technical expert in building explosive devices.
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Lockerbie bombmaker accused held in US
London/Washington — A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the US, Scottish and US law enforcement officials said on Sunday.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after former US Attorney-General Bill Barr first announced the US filed charges against him.
A justice department official confirmed on Sunday that the US has taken custody of the alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker. Mas’ud is expected to make his initial court appearance in a federal court in Washington, DC.
Further details about the timing of the court hearing will be forthcoming, the spokesperson added.
The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told the suspect is in US custody, a spokesperson for Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said on Sunday.
The bomb on board the Boeing 747 en route to the US killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground, the deadliest ever militant attack in Britain.
In 1991 two other Libyan intelligence operatives were charged in the bombing: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah.
Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing and was jailed for life in 2001. He was later released because he was suffering from cancer and died in 2012. Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Scottish prosecutors have maintained that Megrahi did not act alone.
In 2020 the US unsealed criminal charges against Mas’ud, a suspected third conspirator, adding he had worked as a technical expert in building explosive devices.
Reuters
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