Sunday morning, a suspect in the United Kingdom’s bloodiest terror attack was in US custody.
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was detained for reportedly assisting in the creation of the bomb that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, according to Scottish sources cited by CNN.
When the jet exploded en way from London to New York, 270 people were killed. The attack claimed the lives of 190 Americans.
Two years after authorities charged him in connection with the massacre, Mas’ud was taken into custody. He was being held by the Libyan government.
“Scottish prosecutors and police, working with UK Government and US colleagues, will continue to pursue this investigation,” a representative for the UK Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service told the news organization.
According to The New York Times, Mas’ud, an alleged top bomb-maker for the late Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy, faced two criminal accusations, including damage of an aircraft resulting in death.
A replica of the Toshiba cassette recorder equipped with explosives that exploded on Pan Am Flight 103.
The recreated remains of Pan Am flight 103 rest in a storage in Farnborough, England, on January 15, 2008.
The newspaper reported that it remained unknown how the U.S. negotiated his extradition.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is the only person ever convicted in connection with the terrorist attack.
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