Page 2 - Libya External Security Organization News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Alleged Lockerbie bombmaker due in US court

An alleged former Libyan intelligence agent accused of making the bomb that blew up a Pan Am jet over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, appeared in a US court Monday to face charges for the deadliest-ever terror attack in Britain.Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir al-Marimi, who allegedly worked as an intelligence operative for the regime of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi between 1973 and 2011, faces three counts related to the Lockerbie bombing.

A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S.

After the announcement of the Scottish public prosecutor's office, the American authorities confirmed, on Sunday, to detain Abou Agila Mohammad Massoud, suspected of having assembled and programmed the bomb of the Lockerbie attack,...

Police and investigators look at what remains of the nose of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 22, 1988, a day after the crash. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — Thirty-two years to the day of a 1988 jet bombing that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Justice Department unsealed charges Monday against a third conspirator.  Abu Agila Masud, of Libya, is accused of having helped build the bomb that was hidden in a portable cassette and radio player stowed aboard a suitcase on Pan Am Flight 103.  The Boeing 747 plane was en route from London t...