• A Libyan man suspected of constructing the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103.
• Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service claimed Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in US prison.
• Scottish prosecutors and police will continue this inquiry.

A Libyan man suspected of constructing the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 is in US custody.

Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service claimed Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in US prison.

The Crown Office noted, “Scottish prosecutors and police, working with UK and US colleagues, will continue this inquiry.”

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing the flight in 2001.

Mas’ud was arrested in 2022, 32 years after the attack that killed 270 people, including 190 Americans.

At the time, US Attorney General William Barr said, “Finally, this man will face justice for his crimes.”

Mas’ud will appear in court in Washington, DC. A US Department of Justice official said more details will be released soon.

The Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground. It’s Britain’s bloodiest strike.

Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah were accused in 1991.

Only Al-Megrahi has been convicted of the attack. He lost one appeal and abandoned another before being released in 2009 on compassionate grounds.

Still protesting his innocence, he died in Libya in 2012.

Scottish prosecutors said al-Megrahi didn’t act alone, notwithstanding Fhimah’s acquittal.

In 2020, the US unsealed criminal accusations against Mas’ud, stating he built explosives.

US officials had a breakthrough in the inquiry in 2017 when they acquired Mas’ud’s interview with Libyan law enforcement.

This happened in 2012 after Muammar Gaddafi’s government collapsed.

Mas’ud admitted manufacturing the bomb in the Pan-Am attack and working with two others, US authorities said.

According to an FBI document, he said Gaddafi praised him and other team members after the attack.

Mas’ud is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the US in connection with Lockerbie, but the first to stand trial.

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