The Department of Justice confirmed that the Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody over the 1988 Lockerbie explosion.
Fox News' Alexandria Hoff reports breaking news that the Lockerbie bombing suspect is in U.S. custody and will be appearing in a U.S. court."The United States has taken custody of alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi," a
Of the victims, 35 Syracuse University students were killed while returning home from studying abroad. "U.S. officials had to know that he was possibly being released. And it probably has to do with the limitations in that particular host country in terms of sentencing and the amount of time that someone serves," former assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker said on Fox & Friends Weekend."So knowing that this person, they just couldn't let him go, they made that decision to go ahead and render him back to the United States.
The U.S. Justice Department announced new charges against Mas'ud in December 2020, on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing. 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.
In that interview, U.S. officials said, Mas'ud admitted building the bomb in the Pan Am attack and working with two other conspirators to carry it out. He also said the operation was orderedand that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
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