© Provided by News 360 Archive - The Prime Minister of Libya's unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibé - Fabio Frustaci/POOL/LaPresse via / DPALibya's unity Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibé announced Thursday that he has dispatched a government team to follow the case of the alleged bomber who destroyed a Pan Am airliner with 270 people on board over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Abu Agila Mohamed Masud Masud Jeir al Marimi, a Libyan national, is in custody in the United States after proceedings were launched in 2020 to try him for the deaths of the 169 U.S. citizens on the plane. Dbeibé has ordered Thursday to assign a law firm and facilitate the travel of the family of the implicated to the United States. The Libyan unity prime minister explained that, following his classification as a terrorist and after an arrest warrant was issued against him, it was the duty of the internationally recognized authorities to extradite him in order to "cleanse" the country of terrorism, as reported by 'The Libya Observer'. According to the profile published at the time by the Justice Department, the defendant worked for Libyan Intelligence, including as a technical expert in the construction of explosive devices from approximately 1973 to 2011.

Source: Libya Today December 15, 2022 21:12 UTC