Date uploaded: 2022-12-11 17:37:36
A key suspect in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, the majority of them Americans, is in U.S. custody, officials confirmed Sunday.
“The United States has taken custody of alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi," A Justice Department spokesman said.
He is expected to make an initial court appearance in Washington on charges leveled two years ago in which federal prosecutors charged Masud with destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and destruction of a vehicle of interstate commerce with an explosive.
The Libyan intelligence officer is suspected of helping make the bomb that exploded aboard the Boeing 747 while it was flying over the small Scottish town en route from London to New York.
U.S. officials also believe Masud was involved in the 1986 bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in Berlin, West Germany, which killed two American service members and a Turkish woman.
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