Mr. Mas’ud was the third suspect charged in the Pan Am 103 case. Mr. al-Megrahi died in 2012; his family posthumously appealed his conviction in Scotland. After Colonel el-Qaddafi’s fall in 2011, Mr. Mas’ud was arrested and imprisoned in Misurata, Libya, before being moved to Al-Hadba prison in Tripoli. said it first received a copy of Mas’ud’s confession with the Libyan law enforcement officer in about 2017 and sought more information. interviewed the Libyan law enforcement official this year and learned that he had taken the confession from Mr. Mas’ud in September 2012.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2020 22:52 UTC