U.S. authorities have told the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government that Abu Agila Masud, a former Libyan intelligence officer suspected of being the Lockerbie bomb maker, was taken into custody “lawfully”. Masud appeared in a federal court in Washington on Monday accused of building the bomb that downed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. “I simply repeat that Scottish prosecutors and law enforcement stand ready to afford all possible co-operation to our US partners in accordance with the rule of law,” she added. It is unclear how how the US negotiated Mr Masud’s extradition from Libya. Reports have said he was kidnapped by militia groups in Libya last month.

Source: Libya Today December 13, 2022 21:50 UTC