The court scheduled a pre-trial detention hearing on December 27 to give Mas’ud time to retain counsel. Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, seated in green, appeared in federal court in Washington, DC, on Monday, December 12. “It’s a tremendous amount of satisfaction,” she said of being at the court for Mas’ud’s initial appearance. The US charged Mas’ud for his alleged involvement in the bombing two years ago, a spokesman for the UK Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service previously told CNN. Megrahi was sentenced in 2001 to 27 years in prison, but was released from prison after being diagnosed with cancer.

Source: Libya Today December 13, 2022 16:41 UTC