US and Scottish authorities say that the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in US custody. The US Justice Department announced new charges against Mas'ud in December 2020, on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing. In 2001, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing the flight. In that interview, US officials said, Mas'ud admitted building the bomb in the Pan Am attack and working with two other conspirators to carry it out. A police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

Source: Libya Today December 11, 2022 14:20 UTC