WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 12: Paul Hudson, whose daughter Melina was one of the victims in the Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing, holds up a banner of pictures of additional victims outside the federal court before the trial for a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that exploded the plane on December 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. U.S. officials announced that they had arrested Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi for his involvement in the bombing that killed 270 people in December 1988. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
  • Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive that brought down Pan Am Flight 103, appeared in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.
  • The Justice Department announced that Mas’ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. 
  • On December 21, 1988, in the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom, Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 270 passengers and crew. 
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