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Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody two years after being charged

2022-12-12

[NYPOST] A suspect in the United Kingdom’s deadliest terror attack was in US custody Sunday morning.

Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi

...previously in our archives as merely Abu Agila Mas'ud, Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, and Abu Agila Mohammad Masud ...

was arrested for allegedly helping make the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, officials said.

The plane was en route from London to New York when it exploded, killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground in the small town near England.

Victims of the attack included 190 Americans and citizens of 20 other countries. Dozens of the slain passengers were Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after spending a semester studying abroad.

In a statement Sunday, Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said the development was a notable step in the process “to bring those responsible for this despicable act to justice.”

Masud was taken into custody two years after authorities charged him in connection with the massacre. He was being held by Libyan authorities.

The suspect is the third Libyan intelligence official charged in the attack, but would be the first to stand trial on US soil.

“At long last, this man responsible for killing Americans and many others will be subject to justice for his crimes,” William Barr, the US Attorney General at the time, said at a news conference.

It was unclear how the US negotiated his extradition.

Masud had been kidnapped from his Tripoli residence by armed men last month, and his family accused the government of not responding to the apparent abduction, according to reports by Lybian news outlets.
Sounds like the family tree needs pruning as well
The US got a breakthrough in the Lockerbie crash case in 2017 when it received a copy of a interview in which Masud admitted building the bomb with two other cohorts; Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The suspect purportedly gave the confession to law enforcement after Khadafy’s government dissolved in 2012.

Al-Megrahi and Fhimah were tried by a panel of Scottish judges sitting in the Netherlands. Al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was convicted in 2001. He is the only person ever convicted in the terror attack and died in 2012 while trying to appeal his conviction. Fhimah was acquitted of all charges.

Posted by:Fred

#6 That’s why I try to get variants together against future searches, Steve S. Not being clever enough for any sort of AI, I’m stuck with the Mark 1 brain.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-12 23:45

#5 /Too obscure?

I laffed!

...previouslyin our archives as merely Abu Agila Mas'ud, Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, and Abu Agila Mohammad Masud ...

"And this is my other brother, Mohammed." Names are a problem if you are building a handy Database of Miscreants and you want a tickle whenever your favorites shows up in the news. Pattern matching gets out of control pretty quick given the various spellings and transliterations. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a two dollar word for the whole mess. I'm wondering how some of the new AI models that do NER would fair against an army of Mohamads...

Posted by: SteveS 2022-12-12 22:36

#4 :-D

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-12 21:21

#3 روكي راكون
ruki rakun

Posted by: JHH 2022-12-12 19:27

#2 Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi
...previously in our archives as merely Abu Agila Mas'ud, Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, and Abu Agila Mohammad Masud ...

...But everyone knew him as Nancy.

/Too obscure?

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-12-12 09:07

#1 You'd think it was Hillary they were arresting, as long this took.

Posted by: NN2N1 2022-12-12 08:43

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