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