The man accused of being the bombmaker in the Lockerbie terrorist attack is now in US custody, authorities in Scotland have said. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was said to be the …
The man accused of being the bombmaker in the Lockerbie terrorist attack is now in US custody, authorities in Scotland have said.
A spokesman for the Crown Office said: "The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told that the suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in US custody. The bombing of Pan Am flight 103, travelling from London to New York on December 21 1988, killed 270 people in Britain's largest terrorist attack.
At the time, he was said to be in Libyan custody and Mr Barr said US authorities would work "arm in arm" with their Scottish counterparts.
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