A former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that killed more than 250 people aboard a plane flying over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 is in U.S. custody, according to Scottish officials.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) roughly two years ago announced criminal charges against Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in relation to the bombing that killed 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed in flight on Dec. 21, 1988.
“The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told that the suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi (“Mas’ud” or “Masoud”) is in US custody,” a spokesperson for Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said in an email.
“Scottish prosecutors and police, working with UK Government and US colleagues, will continue to pursue this investigation, with the sole aim of bringing those who acted along with Al Megrahi to justice,” the spokesperson added.
The tragedy remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil, and a criminal complaint filed in the D.C.-based federal trial court charged Al-Marimi with destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and destruction of a vehicle by means of an explosive resulting in death.
Former Attorney General William Barr, who previously held the post in the George H.W. Bush administration in the years following the attack, announced the charges in his final days in the Trump administration, calling it the “product of decades of hard work” at the time.
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