Lockerbie Suspect in US Custody for Plane Bombing That Killed 270
- US alleges he helped build bomb that downed Pan Am 103 in 1988
- Former US attorney says winning conviction will be a challenge
The wreckage of the Pan-Am flight which was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
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A man charged in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Boeing 747 airliner that killed 270 people is in US custody, a Justice Department spokesperson said.
Prosecutors in Scotland identified the suspect as former Libyan intelligence officer Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the Press Association news agency reported.