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Lockerbie bombing suspect appears in US court, will not face death penalty

Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi during an initial court appearance in US District Court in Washington, DC, December 12, 2022. © Bill Hennessy, Reuters

More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.

The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground.

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