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About the truths of who ordered this attack. my own family as my three small children and i were awaiting for the arrival of santa and for their daddy john to come home from a london business trip. and then four days before christmas, john among 259 passengers and crew boarded pan am 103. and lives were shattered. and thousands of victims' loved ones from 21 nations were left to pick up the pieces. >> that's some important context. i'm join by cnn's nic robertson and july yet khiyam. nic, to you first, the 34 years later, one of the suspects, one of the masterminds, allegedly, will be brought ...

Victoria, her husband john was killed in the pan am flight 103 bombing and she's the founder of the lockerbie legacy foundation. what does this moment, what does today and this news mean to you and your family? >> well, the u.s. apprehension and arrest of libyan terror suspect masud, is the first tangible made by the department of justice in 34 years to hold any suspect accountable in u.s. courts. you know, that u.s. federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute crimes on board u.s. flagged aircrafts regardless of the location. so aside from issuing the 1991 criminal indictments against two li...

Business trip and then four days before christmas, john, among 259 passengers and crew, boarded pan am 103, which was a u.s. flagged boeing 747 flying from london to new york. and like you said, 38 minutes into the flight, at 31,000 feet, the terrorist bomb exploded and scattering the 259 souls, the airplane content and debris over a 845 square mile area on the serene country sooiside and tow lockerbie, scotland. at that moment 275 lives were shatter and thousands of victims from 21 nations were left to pick up the pieces. we really want to make sure that justice is served in order to avoid fu...

Making the bomb that killed 270 people on pan am flight 103 is in custody. i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the man is a former libyan intel operative. d.o.j. said he set a timer so the bomb would explode the next day and held it off to a c co-conspirrator. >> it has been 34 years, the man accused will fasz justice. abu agila mohammad mas'ud kheir al-marimi had been in prison for a separate sentence.

For his alleged role in blowing up pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, 38 minutes after it took off from the u.s. from london. killing everyone on board. and 11 people on the ground. the u.s. first charged the man for his involvement in the attack two years ago. while he was already in custody if libya for unrelated crimes. >> it is alleged in the criminal complaint in the indictment that at that time all co-conspirators work together to arm the explosive device in the suitcase. >> for years the other person convicted was al magrahi. a former intelligence it was accused along with anot...