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.

Source: Libya Today December 12, 2022 12:22 UTC