Libyan Man Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Attack

A Libyan man accused of involvement in the 1988 bombing of a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, pleaded not guilty to three charges in a US federal court on Wednesday.

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in the US District Court in Washington, DC, wearing a green prison uniform and face mask. He is charged with two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and one charge of destruction of a vehicle used in foreign commerce by an explosive, resulting in death.

The attack on Pan Am Flight 103 killed 270 people – 259 aboard the Boeing 747 and 11 on the ground – when a bomb detonated on the flight over Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988.

Mas’ud’s public defender, Whitney Minter, entered a not guilty plea on his behalf and requested a jury trial on the three federal counts. The trial date has not yet been set.

The US Department of Justice has been investigating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 for more than 30 years. Mas’ud is the fourth person to be charged in the attack. The other three were convicted in 2001 and 2009.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history. The US Department of Justice is committed to bringing those responsible for the attack to justice.