A man charged in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Boeing 747 airliner that killed 270 people is in U.S. custody, a Justice Department spokesperson said.
Prosecutors in Scotland identified the suspect as former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the Press Association news agency reported.
The U.S. has charged Mas’ud as a third alleged conspirator in the attack, citing “his role in building the bomb” that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Everyone aboard and 11 people on the ground were killed.
