A Libyan guy accused of establishing the bomb that exploded on a civilian airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 other folks, has been transferred to U.S. custody, in line with a record from the Associated Press.
The U.S. Division of Justice first introduced fees towards Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in December of 2020 after he used to be arrested in Libya. Mas’ud will be the first particular person to stand fees in a U.S. court docket over the terrorist assault.
The Pan-Am flight took off from London on Dec. 21, 1988 and used to be headed for New York however a bomb, designed within a Toshiba boombox, exploded not up to an hour after takeoff. The crash killed all 259 other folks on board in addition to 11 other folks at the floor the place it crashed in Lockerbie, destroying properties within the house.
Because the AP notes, 190 of the folks on board had been American citizens, together with 35 scholars from Syracuse College who were spending a semester in the United Kingdom. Citizens from 20 different international locations had been additionally killed within the assault.
The Justice Division alleges Mas’ud admitted to the bombing as a member of Libyan intelligence within the Eighties. Moammar Gadhafi, the longtime chief of Libya prior to his dying in 2011 by the hands of a revolt armed forces following NATO airstrikes, reportedly thanked Mas’ud for his paintings construction the bomb that destroyed the flight over Scotland.
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