The arrest of a man known as Mas'ud represents a moment of hope for many of the victims' families of the people on board Pan Am Flight 103 — brought down over the Scottish town of Lockerbie — who have long campaigned for justice to be done on American soil.
A frail-looking 71-year-old — who is a little unsteady on his feet — will be asked to enter a plea in a Washington DC court next week, charged over what's considered one of the worst terrorist attacks in US history.
"It was like a rushing and screaming noise," one man told the television crews that rushed to the town in the following hours.Reverend Alan Neal — the rector of the local Anglican church — heard something "loud and terrible".Soon, they came to the shocking realisation that a piece of a plane had landed about 30 or 40 metres away.
When her mum came home a little later, she had to break the news that the plane her son, Rick, was travelling home on was missing.Rick Monetti was one of 35 students from Syracuse University in New York state on Pan Am flight 103.All 259 passengers and crew on the flight — and the 11 people on the ground — died.It was considered the most significant terrorist attack on America until September 11, 2001.
Shreds of clothing and a fragment of a circuit board eventually led them to Malta and the conclusion that Megrahi and Fhimah had conspired to place a bomb concealed in a Toshiba tape recorder in an unaccompanied suitcase. "But Scotland, that was the site where the crime was committed, and they had a very strong argument it should be a Scottish case."
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