the first tangible step made by the u.s. department of justice in 34 years to hold any suspect accountable in u.s. courts. today s arraignment that will happen against massoud in the courthouse in washington, d.c. is the first significant step to begin to address this three-decade long miscarriage of justice. justice delayed is justice denied. joining me now, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and molly hunter. ken, first to you. what do we expect from the suspect s first court appearance? it s not an arraignment. there won t be a plea. we get to learn how they got him. some of the families claim he was released from a libyan jail or captured from a libyan jail after so many years. was there any cooperation with
charges on american soil and be extradited physically to the united states. we have a picture of him taken yesterday from the alexandria, virginia sheriff s office, it s a mug shot. he s accused of making, as you said, that bomb that killed 270, 259 on the plane and 11 on the ground in scotland, and more details how he was caught and eventually extradited. one of the victims, a syracuse student rickmanetti, there were 30 students, 190 were americans, here is rick s sister this morning. one of the goals that we have all had is to seek the truth, and hold those who are responsible accountable. and i think this takes us a step closer to doing that. again, this is just one more person who is responsible. in 2020, then attorney general bill barr announced charges against massoud, and
federal court in washington dc and he will appear before a federal judge tomorrow on american soil after two year negotiation to getting here and a summer 21st 1980, pan am flight 103 to fight headed to new york city blue up over lockerbie scotland averaging off from london heathrow airport and massoud is accused of making the bomb that exploded and two others were charging the 1990s but whatever actually extradited to the united states and he is the first to face barges in this crime on american soil anton member men was just 30 old when he died in flight 103 this him there and it was coming home from a business street trip survive by his wife carolyn and two daughters casey and joe we spoke to his brother earlier today who credited the white house with the latest development but in the same thing, believes there s more to the story involving iran.
under scottish law in a court in the netherlands. he served time in scotland before he was released because he suffered from cancer and ended up dying back home in libya a couple years later. so that happened a while back. so the dent identity of massoud been a focus of the fbi, because he was very serious. some of the detective work that went into this is unbelievable. they also believe he was behind the 1986 disco bombing in west berlin, germany, which killed a couple of american servicemen in that case. so this has been getting him into a u.s. court to face these charges has been a long time in the making. certainly it focuses on the justice department and fbi inves investigators. he was tunisian born but libyan citizenship. evan perez, we ll check back in