U.S. charges Libyan in 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270, including a Fargo native No amount of time or distance will stop the United States and our Scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case, Barr told a news conference Monday.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr participates in a news conference to provide an update on the investigation of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, at the US Department of Justice in Washington on Dec. 21. Michael Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Reuters) The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, mostly Americans.
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A police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded on Dec. 21, 1988. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat
The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people.
The Boeing 747 exploded and killed 190 Americans. “No amount of time or distance will stop the United States and our Scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case,” US Attorney General William Barr told a news conference Monday.
The suspect, Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, a former senior Libyan intelligence official, is charged with two criminal counts related to the bombing. He is in Libyan custody, Barr said Monday, and US officials are hopeful that Libya will allow Masud to be tried in the United St
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WASHINGTON The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people.
The Boeing 747 exploded and killed 190 Americans. “No amount of time or distance will stop the United States and our Scottish partners from pursuing justice in this case,” U.S. Attorney General William Barr told a news conference Monday.
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The suspect, Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, a former senior Libyan intelligence official, is charged with two criminal counts related to the bombing. He is in Libyan custody, Barr said Monday, and U.S. officials are hopeful that Libya will allow Masud to be tried in the United States.
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Police and investigators look at what remains of the nose of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 22, 1988, a day after the crash. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) Thirty-two years to the day of a 1988 jet bombing that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Justice Department unsealed charges Monday against a third conspirator.
Abu Agila Masud, of Libya, is accused of having helped build the bomb that was hidden in a portable cassette and radio player stowed aboard a suitcase on Pan Am Flight 103.
The Boeing 747 plane was en route from London to New York at 31,000 feet when it exploded over Lockerbie, killing all aboard and 11 on the ground. Of the 190 Americans on board, 35 were a group of study-abroad students from Syracuse University returning home to spend Christmas with their families.