“I cannot talk before I see my attorney,” Mas’ud told United States Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather, speaking through an interpreter. Mas’ud, who allegedly confessed his crimes to a Libyan law enforcement official in September 2012, appeared just days after being captured in Libya. Mas’ud’s nephew, Abdulmenam Marimi, said armed men came to his family’s home in Tripoli in mid-November and took the accused bomb maker away. The family has also lodged a formal complaint with Libya’s attorney general over Mas’ud’s transfer to the US, Marimi said. Mas’ud was not formally charged by the US until 2020 when it uncovered fresh evidence revealing he had apparently confessed his crimes to a Libyan law enforcement official.

Source: Libya Today December 15, 2022 04:05 UTC