Taken

The U.S. announced charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago. The bomb on board the Boeing 747 killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground, ...

12, 2012, interview of Mas'ud conducted by a Libyan law enforcement officer while he was in custody there. At the time of the bombing, U.S. A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Sunday that the United States has custody of the suspect. He was later released because he was suffering from cancer and died at his home in Tripoli in 2012. The handover of Mas'ud for trial in the West prompted infighting among Libyan politicians, who are split between a parliament based in the east of the country and a Government of National Unity in Tripoli. At a Scottish trial before a court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing and was jailed for life in 2001.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people, including 190 Americans, and launched a decades-long international manhunt for the attackers.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that Megrahi and Fhimah were tried in Scottish court in 1992. and British governments charged Megrahi and Fhimah, the two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of working with Mas'ud. The bombing was the single deadliest terror attack in the history of the United Kingdom, and the second deadliest for Americans after Sept. He was joined in Malta by two other Libyan intelligence agents, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, according to the Justice Department. Investigators interviewed more than 10,000 people around the world and analyzed the largest crime scene in recent history — about 845 square miles of scattered debris. [breakthrough ](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-senior-libyan-intelligence-officer-and-bomb-maker-muamar-qaddafi-regime-charged)in the case — they discovered that Libyan authorities had apprehended Mas'ud, a former Libyan intelligence operative, and interviewed him about his involvement in the bombing. The department says he will make his initial court appearance in the U.S. Mas'ud and the two others returned to Libya, where former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, thanked them for carrying out the operation, according to federal officials. Of the 190 Americans who died, 35 of them were students from Syracuse University in upstate New York who were returning home for the holidays after a semester studying abroad. In 1991, U.S. The U.S. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded into pieces over Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb was placed in the cargo area of the plane.

Nearly 34 years after 270 people, including 190 Americans, died in the bombing of over Lockerbie, Scotland, the bomb-making suspect has been taken into ...

In his 2020 news conference, Barr noted that the breakthrough that led to the new charges against Mas'ud arose when law enforcement learned in 2016 he had been arrested after the collapse of the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi and interviewed by a Libyan law enforcement officer in September 2012. In 2001, Megrahi was convicted of his role in the bombing by three Scottish judges sitting in a special court in the Netherlands. Mas'ud allegedly gave the suitcase to Megrahi and the other Libyan operative, who both worked at the Malta airport, according to the affidavit. "This would not have happened without the top levels of the government and their commitment to bringing this individual to justice." District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the DOJ. Attorney General William Barr announced the charges against Mas'ud in his final week at the Justice Department. 21, according to the criminal affidavit. The explosion ripped the aircraft into countless pieces that scattered across 840 square miles, nearly the entire width of Scotland. "That is as it should be." custody,” a spokesperson for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland’s public prosecution service, said in a statement to ABC News. service members were killed and 229 people, including 79 Americans, were injured custody in a phone call from federal authorities before dawn Sunday.

Abu Agila Masud is accused of building the explosive device that killed 270 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in British history.

The decision to release Megrahi was taken in the face of strenuous objections from American officials, including then US president Barack Obama. At 19.02, a loud sound was recorded on the cockpit voice recorder. A bomb had been detonated. The Scottish government said it did not comment on criminal cases. His second appeal was ultimately dropped US officials told Reuters that Masud could soon make an initial appearance before a federal court in Washington.

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr first announced the United ...

Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing and was jailed for life in 2001. A Justice Department official confirmed to Reuters on Sunday that the United States has taken custody of the alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker. The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told the suspect is in U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr first announced the United States filed charges against him. A man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after former U.S.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people, including 190 Americans, and launched a decades-long international manhunt for the attackers.

and British governments charged Megrahi and Fhimah, the two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of working with Mas'ud. The bombing was the single deadliest terror attack in the history of the United Kingdom, and the second deadliest for Americans after Sept. Investigators interviewed more than 10,000 people around the world and analyzed the largest crime scene in recent history — about 845 square miles of scattered debris. He was joined in Malta by two other Libyan intelligence agents, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, according to the Justice Department. [breakthrough ](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-senior-libyan-intelligence-officer-and-bomb-maker-muamar-qaddafi-regime-charged)in the case — they discovered that Libyan authorities had apprehended Mas'ud, a former Libyan intelligence operative, and interviewed him about his involvement in the bombing. Mas'ud and the two others returned to Libya, where former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, thanked them for carrying out the operation, according to federal officials. The department says he will make his initial court appearance in the U.S. Of the 190 Americans who died, 35 of them were students from Syracuse University in upstate New York who were returning home for the holidays after a semester studying abroad. In 1991, U.S. The U.S. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded into pieces over Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb was placed in the cargo area of the plane. There, Masud was instructed to prepare the timer inside the suitcase so that an explosion would detonate exactly 11 hours later.

The Lockerbie plane bombing remains the single deadliest terrorist attack ever carried out in the 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." custody and would make an initial appearance in the U.S. custody," a spokesperson for Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said Sunday, according to - Mas'ud was also involved in the 1986 bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in Berlin, which killed two American service members and a Turkish woman, according to U.S. - "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 U.S.