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Dec 2022
49m 3s

Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody

Bbc World Service
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The US has confirmed it has taken custody of the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed an American plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. It gave no information on how Abu Agila Masud entered US custody. 270 people died when the Pan Am flight from London to New York was blown up. Also in the programme: NASA's uncrewed Orion cap ... Show More
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