London/WashingtonA man charged with building the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in U.S. custody, Scottish and U.S. law enforcement officials say. said on Sunday.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was detained nearly two years after former US Attorney General Bill Barr first announced that the US had indicted him.
A Justice Department official confirmed to Reuters on Sunday that the United States has detained a suspected Pan Am Flight 103 bomb maker.Mas’ud will appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. It’s a schedule.
Details about the timing of the court hearings will be announced soon, the spokesperson added.
Families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing are said to have suspects in U.S. custody, a spokesman for Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said Sunday. rice field.
The BBC was the first to report Masood’s arrest.
A bomb aboard a Boeing 747 on its way to the United States killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Ramen Khalifa Fima, were charged with the bombing.
Megahi was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to life in prison in 2001. He was released from prison after suffering from cancer and died in 2012.
Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Scottish prosecutors insist Megrahi did not act alone.
In 2020, the United States unsealed criminal charges against Masoud, an alleged third co-conspirator, adding that Masoud worked as a technical expert to manufacture explosive devices. – Reuters
