Libyan Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is suspected of making the bomb that detonated inside of the U.S.-bound Pan Am flight over Scotland.
A police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb exploded on board, killing a total of 270 people on Dec. 21, 1988.LONDON — U.S. and Scottish authorities said Sunday that the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in U.S. custody.
Pan Am flight 103, traveling from London to New York, exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988, killing all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground. It remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil. “At long last, this man responsible for killing Americans and many others will be subject to justice for his crimes,” William Barr, the attorney general at the time, said at a news conference.In 2001, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing the flight. He is to date the only person convicted over the attack. He lost one appeal and abandoned another before being freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds because he was terminally ill with cancer.
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