It has been reported that a person accused of making the bomb placed on the plane in connection with the Lockerbie Disaster, which detonated 34 years ago and killed 270 people, while passing over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland, was detained in the USA. Scottish authorities informed the families of those who lost their lives in the Lockerbie Disaster that the suspect Abu Agila Muhammed Mesut was detained in the USA, and an official from the US Department of Justice told the press that Mesut, who is alleged to be the bomber of the Lockerbie Disaster, was detained. confirmed receipt. Mesut’s first hearing is expected to be held in a federal court in the capital, Washington DC.
In 2020, the USA charged Mesut, which he suspected was the third person in the attack, and stated that Mesut worked as a technical expert in the construction of explosive devices.
LOCKERBIE DISCHARGE
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Pan Am Airlines Boeing 747-121 type aircraft with flight number 103, flying from Heathrow Airport in London, the capital of England, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, USA on December 21, 1988, as it passed over the town of Lockerbie. it exploded in the air. In the attack, all 259 people on the plane and 11 people in the town lost their lives, a total of 270 people.
In 1991, Libyan intelligence agents Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah were indicted for the bombing. Megrahi was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001. Megrahi was released by Scotland in 2009 due to cancer. Meghari passed away in 2012.
Fhimah was acquitted of all charges, but Scottish prosecutors argued that Megrahi did not act alone in the attack. Claiming that he did not order the said attack, Libya’s ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi admitted that Libya was responsible for the Lockerbie Disaster in 2008 and decided to pay compensation to the families of those who lost their lives in the attack. (UAV)