Abu Agila Masud is said to have admitted his role to Libyan officials in 2012
The US on Monday unsealed criminal charges against Masud over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people
Masud is said to have told investigators how he built the bomb used in the attack
An FBI affidavit unsealed Monday says Masud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah
He then handed Fhimah a medium-sized Samsonite suitcase containing a bomb
The suspected Lockerbie bombmaker is said to have told investigators how he avoided detection by airport scanners by positioning his explosive device near metal in a suitcase that was timed to go off 11 hours later.
Attorney General Barr announced charges against Abu Agila Masud on Monday
The former Libyan intelligence officer is accused of assembling a bomb that blew up a Pan Am flight 103 en route from London to New York in 1988
The plane exploded over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people
The charges unsealed by Barr on Monday came on the 32nd anniversary of the terror attack and marked the first US trial related to the case
Barr announced initial charges against two other Lockerbie suspects in 1991
Monday marked his final news conference before stepping down as AG
With US Attorney General Bill Barr seeking the extradition of a suspected bombmaker from Libya, we take a look at the search for answers behind an international tragedy They were going home to a Christmas they would never see. Just 38 minutes after the plane had taken off, as it prepared to wheel to port and head out over the Atlantic, an explosion ripped through a forward hold of the Boeing 747. It was two minutes and 50 seconds past 7pm on the evening of December 21, 1988. A recovered voice recorder would reveal a 180-millisecond hissing noise before Pan Am 103’s communications centre was destroyed.
How I found the Lockerbie bomber : Victim s brother pored over CIA cables, travelled to Libya and met an assassin before giving suspect s name to the FBI - now US is set to charge him
US prosecutors are set to charge Abu Agila Mas ud with making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 - killing 259 people
Charges against Mas ud stem from an investigation carried out by Ken Dornstein
Dornstein s older brother, David, then 25, was one of those killed on the flight
Ken spent six years and $350,000 tracking down Mas ud, who is thought to be serving 10 years in a Libyan jail for being Gaddafi s master bomb-maker
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