Libyan Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud is accused of making the bomb in the deadly terrorist attack.
Rescue workers and crash investigators search the area around the cockpit of Pan Am flight 103 in a farmer's field east of Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 23, 1988.
After a decade-long investigation, US authorities arrested alleged bombmaker Abu Agela Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the Department of Justice said in a statement to BuzzFeed News on Sunday. The jet’s crash in Lockerbie, Scotland, was the deadliest attack on UK soil in history, and families of the victims — who included 190 Americans as well as people from 20 other countries — have sought accountability for decades.they had filed criminal charges against Mas’ud for his role in the bombing.
The Pan Am flight from London to New York was destroyed in an explosion less than an hour after takeoff, and it crashed onto UK soil on December 21,1988. Among the victims was a group of 35 Syracuse University students, who were returning home to the US after studying abroad.A man looks at a memorial stone in memory of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 2018.
According to the affidavit, Mas’ud met with Fhimah and Megrahi at Luqa Airport in Malta to deliver the bomb, which was placed on board a flight to Frankfurt in what was then West Germany. They planned to transfer it onto the Pan Am flight at Heathrow Airport in London.
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