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.

Source: Libya Today December 11, 2022 21:58 UTC