Libyan Muslim man charged with making a bomb in the terrorist attack that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 — killing 270 people — is in United States custody, the Justice Department announced Sunday. Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi allegedly made the explosive that brought the airliner down as it traveled from London to New York.
NY Daily News The explosion over Lockerbie killed 259 people in the air, as well as 11 on the ground, officials say. The victims included 190 Americans, 35 of whom were Syracuse University students returning home for Christmas after studying abroad.
Mas’ud faces two criminal charges, which were announced in 2020. He will appear in a Washington federal court, the Justice Department said.
The U.S. previously charged fellow Libyan Muslim intelligence officers Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah in 1991 in connection with the explosion. Neither has faced those charges in a U.S. court, however. In a 2012 interview with Libyan authorities, Mas’ud claimed to deliver the bomb in a suitcase during a meeting with al-Megrahi and Fhimah, with the explosive set to detonate in 11 hours, according to an FBI affidavit.
Fhimah was acquitted by a panel of Scottish judges in the Netherlands, while the panel sentenced al-Megrahi to life imprisonment in 2001. He was released in 2009 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in Tripoli in 2012.
“Scottish prosecutors and police, working with U.K. government and U.S. colleagues, will continue to pursue this investigation, with the sole aim of bringing those who acted along with al-Megrahi to justice,” Scotland’s Crown Office said Sunday.
That also led to the demise of an iconic airline.
Yes, it did. I loved Pan Am.
I wonder if this will have any sort of meaning under this depraved administration?
Show trial, sent to a cushy “prison” or house arrest with all the cosy attributes of a Western lifestyle until the day he dies.
Wait and see ..!
Ah those were the days. You could carry a bomb to an airplane and the stewardess would be like; “Coffee or tea, Sir {sic}
I hope you’re on such a plane some day.
Biden might let stay in the nice awarm and feed in the white House
I had no knowledge that Libya was part of the Jihad against the West.
Now 2011 developments make more sense.
I had even forgotten that Muslim terrorists were behind the attack.
All moslems are part of the jihad against Western Civilization.
GREAT! Now Biden can let him go
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit 🤢