Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud is a Libyan who is alleged to alleged to have played a role in the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.[1][2] The bombing is widely known by its flight number Pan Am flight 103.[3]
Mas’ud was imprisoned in Libya over unrelated charges in 2020 when US law enforcement officials began negotiating for Libya to allow him to be extradited to the United States, to stand trial.[2][4] Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation took him into custody, in Libya, on December 11, 2022.
Accoring to Adam Goldman, writing in the New York Times, Mas’ud confessed to his role in the bombing, while in Libyan imprisonment, and that legal experts suggested that confession would be ruled inadmissible.[2]
Much of the investigative work was done by Ken Dornstein, a documentary film-maker whose brother was a victim of the bombing.[4] Dornstein's documentary described how he found Mas’ud had been indicted in Germany for an earlier bombing.
References
- ↑ Adam Goldman, Katie Benner (2020-12-21). "U.S. Unseals Charges Against New Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing". New York Times (Washington, DC): p. A13. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/lockerbie-bombing-suspect.html. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Adam Goldman (2022-12-11). "Libyan Operative Charged in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing Is in F.B.I. Custody". New York Times (Washington, DC): p. A7. Archived from the original on 2022-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20221212005355/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/us/politics/masud-pan-am-bombing-libya-fbi.html. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ↑ Juliana Kim (2022-12-11). "The U.S. has taken custody of the alleged bomb maker in the 1988 Lockerbie attack". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2022-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20221212154936/https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142121111/lockerbie-plane-bombing-arrest-pan-am-flight-103. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Noel King, Mohamad El-Bardicy, Lisa Weiner (2020-12-24). "Filmmaker Details Investigation That Identified Alleged Pan Am Flight 103 Bomb-Maker". National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/949783268/filmmaker-details-investigation-that-identified-alleged-pan-am-flight-103-bomb-m. Retrieved 2022-12-12. "His brother, David, was killed in the bombing, and Dornstein has dedicated his life to searching for the truth. In his 2015 Frontline documentary series "My Brother's Bomber," he revealed links that eventually led to the indictment of Mas'ud as the suspected bomb expert."
