The wreckage of the airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland
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For decades, Abu Agila Mas’ud was such a shadowy and elusive figure that investigators wondered if he should be called “The Ghost”. Yet the FBI eventually tracked down the man they plan to charge with making the Lockerbie bomb, partially through the unwitting help of East German intelligence, and dogged detective work by a Lockerbie victims' brother, The Telegraph can reveal.
During years of painstaking detective work, the FBI agents felt he lived up to this other-worldly sobriquet because they had no image or reports of what The Ghost looked like, or even of his real identity.