Suspect in deadliest terror attack ever on British soil has been taken into US custody

[mystery-ak]

December 11, 2022 9:42am EST
Lockerbie bombing suspect in custody
Pan Am Flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in custody, DOJ confirms

By David Spunt , Danielle Wallace | Fox News

The Lockerbie bombing suspect was taken into custody on Sunday. 

"The United States has taken custody of alleged Pan Am flight 103 bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi," a Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed to Fox News. "He is expected to make his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Additional details, including information regarding public access to the initial appearance, will be forthcoming."

The statement gave no information on how Mas'ud came to be in U.S. custody.

Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said in a statement that "the families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told that the suspect Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in U.S. custody." 

Pan Am flight 103, traveling from London to New York, exploded over Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988, killing all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground. It remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil.

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[mountaineer]

Wheels of justice, etc.

[GtHawk]

I hope the Brits aren't looking for justice, because the Brandon administration has a very skewed definition of that word, especially when it come to terrorists.

[DCPatriot]

Wasn't there another perpetrator in that bombing who was released in a swap or a judicial ruling years ago?
Same guy??

[libertybele]

Wasn't there another perpetrator in that bombing who was released in a swap or a judicial ruling years ago?
Same guy??

I don't think it's the same guy, and I thought that this incident was settled -- apparently not.

Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, the Netherlands, after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012 as the only person to be convicted for the attack.

In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack.[3] Acceptance of responsibility was part of a series of requirements laid out by a UN resolution for sanctions against Libya to be lifted. Libya said it had to accept responsibility due to Megrahi's status as a government employee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

[mountaineer]

There's a distinct possibility Biden's DOJ will let him go.