Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody

[Yonnie3]

Source: BBC

By David Cowan
Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland

A Libyan man accused of making the bomb which destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie 34 years ago is in United States custody, Scottish authorities have said.

The US announced charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago, alleging that he played a key role in the bombing on 21 December, 1988.

The blast on board the Boeing 747 left 270 people dead.

It is the deadliest terrorist incident to have taken place on British soil.

All 259 passengers and crew on board the jumbo jet bound to New York from London died while another 11 people were killed in Lockerbie when wreckage destroyed their homes.

Last month it was reported that Masud had been kidnapped by a militia group in Libya, leading to speculation that he was going to be handed over to the American authorities to stand trial.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63933837

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Other stories
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/us/politics/masud-pan-am-bombing-libya-fbi.html

https://www.scotsman.com/news/national/lockerbie-bombing-suspected-bomb-maker-behind-pan-am-103-blast-abu-agila-masud-in-us-custody-3949762

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lockerbie-bombing-abu-agila-masud-pan-am-103-us-custody-scotland-libya/

[underpants]

1. Was about to post this. Jesus. That's incredible

They stayed on this. Impressive.

[nycbos]

2. DOJ doesn't forget things like this

[Yonnie3]

3. I wasn't sure if this wasn't some recycled story

I knew there had been several trials years go. That's why I had all those pages open I added to the OP.

[IronLionZion]

7. There were several people involved, so there have been other folks on trial before

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I take some solace

in knowing that the terrorist bomber has been looking over his shoulder all this time. I hope it caused so much distress that his arrest is anticlimactic by comparison.

[former9thward]

9. He was only charged two years ago.

So, unfortunately, most of the time he has been living free and clear.

[33taw]

5. Has be been charged in Scotland or just the US? It seems a bit confusing.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I imagine the militia collected a bounty.

That's the kind of thing that gets results, but there's no control over who gets the money. It can fuel another terror cell.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Excellent news.

I passed through Lockerbie on a train maybe five years after the disaster. You could still see the scars on the land; it looked terribly raw.

[Kennah]

10. Biden is stacking them up

[CTyankee]

11. I have been saying that for a while.

While Repukes keep acting like idiots, Biden has quietly does the job and has the people who have actually DONE something make the announcement. Britney's release have brought tears to the eyes who watched her stride off the airplane. Her wife's gratitude was nothing less than heart stirring. Contrasted by the sex toy stuff. SNL couldn't top that...

[GusBob]

12. Is this the guy from Frontline?

I may be mistaken, but the brother of one of the victims set out to find those responsible, like mortgaged his home and everything to investigate and make the documentary and they found this guy. Fascinating story

[MicaelS]

13. No death penalty.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63946772

Too bad.