Abu Agila Masud to appear in US courtroom for prosecution
Abu Agila Masud, a Libyan intelligence official, will face federal charges in Washington over alleged involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the U.S. Justice Department said Sunday. This comes after Scottish authorities announced yesterday that Masud had arrived in U.S. custody. The Associated Press reported today that, although he is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the U.S. in connection with the attack, he would be the first to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution. Charges against Masud were first announced by American authorities in December 2020. He was being held at a Libyan prison for unrelated crimes when the Justice Department unsealed the charges, which include destruction of an aircraft resulting in death.
Source:Libya Today
December 12, 2022 13:22 UTC
EU's Frontex 'complicit' in forced migrant returns to Libya - HRW
ROME : Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the EU's border agency Frontex is facilitating the forced return of sea migrants to Libya rather than their rescue by NGOs or other vessels that would take them to Europe. Sending back migrants to Libya, where it is known that they face "atrocious treatment", makes Frontex "complicit in the abuse", Judith Sunderland, HRW's associate Europe and Central Asia director, said in a statement. It witnessed one of the Libyan interceptions "by chance", HRW and Border Forensics said. Frontex said it liaises with "all rescue coordination centres in the region: Italy, Malta, Libya and Tunisia. Unlike what the (report) states, all four are internationally recognised rescue centres," it said.
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December 12, 2022 13:14 UTC
Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody
The US charged Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi for his alleged involvement in the bombing two years ago, a spokesman for the UK Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service told CNN. The attack killed 270 people as the bomb detonated over the Scottish town as it flew from London to New York. Al-Marimi had been in custody in Libya for unrelated crimes when charged by the US Justice Department two years ago. The UK official told CNN that “the families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told that the suspect “Mas’ud” or “Masoud” is in US custody. The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack to have taken place in the United Kingdom.
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December 12, 2022 12:22 UTC
EndeavorXR’s Amy Peck Notes Top 2023 Trends
XR Today spoke to Amy Peck, Founder and Chief Executive of EndeavorXR about the top tech trends in 2023 on the sidelines of her keynote speech at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 in Miami. Peck is also the Board Chair of Prospera Women and hosts the Future Construct podcast. Keynote 2023 Tech TrendsAmy recalled some top takeaways from her keynote speech, many of which explained the dichotomy between metaverse creation for consumer and enterprise-facing companies. Tech Trends for 2023Speaking on the emerging trends for 2023, Peck explained that sectors in social media, fashion, entertainment, and games would intersect with a “multimedia approach” to engage consumers. Digital twin technologies were rising as emerging trends, namely from major tech firms such as NVIDIA, Unity Technologies, and others.
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December 12, 2022 12:04 UTC
Rights group claims EU 'complicit' in Libya's migrants abuse
Those who survive and are caught by the Libyan coast guard and returned to the country, face an uncertain future. According to the report, Frontex began using drones to scan the Libyan coastline from a base in Malta in May 2021. The funds are intended to bolster its coast guard service with better vessels and equipment, and improve conditions for migrants in detention centers. Libya's coast guard has also profited, with members often handing over migrants intercepted at sea to militias as part of financial deals. EU members have for years fought over who should take responsibility for migrants arriving in southern Europe.
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December 12, 2022 10:56 UTC
What was the 1988 Lockerbie attack that killed 270 people, and for which a Libyan is now in US custody
The Lockerbie bombing was the biggest terrorist attack to be carried out on UK soil. How did the Lockerbie attack happen? About two years before the attack, Libya was blamed for the bombing of a Berlin disco that killed three people. With Masud in Libyan custody, though, his prosecution remained largely theoretical. US and Scottish officials pledged to work for his extradition so that he could be tried.
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December 12, 2022 10:34 UTC
Libyan Accused in Lockerbie Bombing Now in American Custody
American authorities in December 2020 announced charges against Mas'ud, who was in Libyan custody at the time. Though he is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the US in connection with the attack, he would be the first to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution. The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on December 21, 1988. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case. That affidavit said Mas'ud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah.
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December 12, 2022 09:58 UTC
Conquest Pro VR: The Ideal Spatial Audio Experience?
The firm reached out for a test run of its Conquest Pro VR audio headphones. Conquest Pro: Device SpecsI had the chance to peruse the colourful inner packaging of the headphone kit, which comes in a comfy protective case complete with instructions. Using the Conquest Pro VR headphones for meeting spaces like AltspaceVR, Meta Horizon Worlds, and Spatial is also an ideal use case. According to research, spatial audio deepens immersion during virtual training sessions, and Conquest VR’s solution is a perfect complement to this. Such devices will provide learners with a better contextual immersive experience by memorising sound directions with premium spatial audio.
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December 12, 2022 06:02 UTC
EU: Frontex Complicit in Abuse in Libya
Click to expand Image The drone Frontex uses to conduct aerial surveillance in the central Mediterranean Sea in front of its hangar in Malta International Airport, Malta. Frontex says there were 433 detections by aerial surveillance in the central Mediterranean in 2021 alone. Click to expand Image Flight tracks of six Frontex aircraft conducting aerial surveillance January-December 2021. Frontex should put in place effective measures to fulfill its obligation to assess whether its activities, including aerial surveillance, violate fundamental rights. In the meanwhile, Frontex, with support from the EU and all member states, should use aerial surveillance to support meaningfully rescue at sea and to prevent the risk that people will be taken to Libya.
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December 12, 2022 05:11 UTC
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Lockerbie plane bombing suspect taken into U.S. custody
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken into custody about two years after former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr first announced the United States filed charges against him. A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Sunday that the United States has custody of the suspect. The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told the suspect is in U.S. custody, a spokesperson for Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said on Sunday. In 1991, two other Libyan intelligence operatives were charged in the bombing: Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. In 2020 the United States unsealed criminal charges against Mas'ud, a suspected third conspirator, adding he had worked as a technical expert in building explosive devices.
Source:Libya Today
December 11, 2022 22:27 UTC
Alleged Lockerbie bombmaker in U.S. custody
Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was charged by the United States two years ago for the Lockerbie bombing -- in which Americans made up a majority of the victims. He had previously been held in Libya for alleged involvement in a 1986 attack on a Berlin nightclub. The U.S. Justice Department confirmed in a statement that Masud was in American custody, following an announcement by Scottish prosecutors, without saying how the suspect ended up in U.S. hands. The bombing killed 259 people including 190 Americans on board, and 11 people on the ground. In that narrative, the Lockerbie bombing was retaliation for the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by a U.S. Navy missile in July 1988 that killed 290 people.
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December 11, 2022 21:58 UTC
Fake News and Media ethics
Like many countries, Pakistan has been a victim of the soft power of the Western media but our colonial mindset accepts anything that is published in the Western media as a “Biblical statement”. However, the Western media, particularly the British media, always denies its alleged role in regime changes; nevertheless circumstantial evidence always proves that the soft power of media is being used wherever and whenever the wWstern world wants regime change. Today we find different kinds of wars around us; their natures are military wars, economic wars, political wars, social wars, and propaganda wars. Like many countries, Pakistan has been a victim of the soft power of the Western media but our colonial mindset accepts anything that is published in the Western media as a “Biblical statement”. The Western media mostly uses philosophical theories to create and fabricate new heroes and to discredit real national heroes by portraying them as villains and rogues.
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December 11, 2022 19:30 UTC
Accused Libyan bombmaker in Pan Am downing now in U.S. custody
FILE Police and investigators look at what remains of the nose of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec. 22, 1988 file photo. American authorities in December 2020 announced charges against Masud, who was in Libyan custody at the time. Though he is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the U.S. in connection with the attack, he would be the first to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case. That affidavit said Masud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah.
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December 11, 2022 18:02 UTC
Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing now in US custody
WASHINGTON — A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, the Justice Department said Sunday. American authorities in December 2020 announced charges against Masud, who was in Libyan custody at the time. Though he is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the U.S. in connection with the attack, he would be the first to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case. That affidavit said Masud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah.
Source:Libya Today
December 11, 2022 16:50 UTC
Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in U.S. custody, authorities say
A Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that blew up a passenger plane over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 is in U.S. custody, authorities in the U.S. and Scotland said Sunday. A police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. In 2001, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing at a special court in the Netherlands overseen by three Scottish judges and no jury. Another Libyan intelligence operative, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted of all charges. Mas’ud will now become the first Libyan operative to be tried on American soil in connection with the bombing.
Source:Libya Today
December 11, 2022 16:40 UTC