Libyan expected to make first court appearance in D.C.
The Justice Dept. says Abu Agila Mohammad Masud was taken into custody by U.S. officials. He's charged in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103.A key suspect in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, the majority of them Americans, is in U.S. custody, officials confirmed Sunday.
At the time the charges were announced, then-Attorney General William Barr, who helped lead the initial investigation during his first stint as attorney general, said a"breakthrough" in the case came in 2016, when federal investigators learned that Masuda, a long-suspected co-conspirator, had been arrested and interrogated by Libyan authorities in 2012 after the collapse of the Moammar Gadhafi regime.
According to court documents, the operation had been ordered by Libyan intelligence officials, and Gadhafi thanked Masud for"the successful attack on the United States."
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