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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Craig Paton and Lucinda Cameron

SHOCKING: Lockerbie suspect always high on the list says former justice secretary - You Need To See This

SCOTLAND'S former justice secretary has said a man in US custody on suspicion of building the bomb that downed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 – killing 270 people – was “always high on the list” of suspects.

US officials said on Sunday that Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi had been detained.

But the father of one of the victims said he wants to see the suspect tried before a UN court as opposed to one in the US or Scotland.

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