Alleged Lockerbie bomb-maker due in US court
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Abu Agila Mohammad Masud (second from left) at a courtroom in Tripoli, on Nov 16, 2014.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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WASHINGTON - The Libyan accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland
Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was charged by the United States two years ago for the Lockerbie bombing, in which Americans made up a majority of the victims.
After arriving in the United States he was taken to a Justice Department facility in Alexandria, Virginia for initial processing, where his mug shot was taken.
On Monday afternoon at 1pm (2am Tuesday Singapore time) he will appear in federal court in Washington for an initial hearing.
On Sunday Scottish prosecutors announced that he was in American hands
Masud had previously been held in Libya for his alleged involvement in a 1986 attack on a Berlin nightclub.
Only one person has so far been convicted for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on December 21, 1988, which remains the deadliest terror attack on British soil.
The New York-bound aircraft was blown up 38 minutes after it took off from London. It sent the main fuselage plunging to the ground in the town of Lockerbie and spread debris over a vast area.
The bombing killed 259 people including 190 Americans on board, and 11 people on the ground.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi spent seven years in a Scottish prison after his conviction in 2001. He died in Libya in 2012, always maintaining his innocence. AFP
