Libya militia ‘held Lockerbie suspect before handover to US’

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in federal court in Washington (Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)

A powerful militia was involved in the clandestine detention and questioning of a suspect in the 1988 downing of a New York-bound Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, according to Libyan officials.

At around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pick-up trucks arrived at a residential building in a neighbourhood of the capital Tripoli, the officials said.