A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 made an initial court appearance in Washington, DC.
Though Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was informed by US Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather of the three criminal counts he’s been charged with by the government and read his rights, he did not enter a plea, citing the need to retain counsel before proceeding in the case. The court scheduled a pre-trial detention hearing on December 27 to give Mas’ud time to retain counsel.
” Bernstein’s husband, Michael Stuart Bernstein, was the assistant deputy director of the DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting Nazis. “It’s a tremendous amount of satisfaction,” she said of being at the court for Mas’ud’s initial appearance. “He is the first person responsible for the death of my husband to actually be tried on US soil.” Authorities in the US and Scotland announced Sunday that Mas’ud was in US custody.
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