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The two men were tried in 2000 by a special Scottish court set up on neutral ground in the Netherlands.
The following year, a court acquitted Fahima and sentenced al-Megrahi, the only one convicted of the attack, to life in prison before commuting his sentence to at least 27 years in prison.
But al-Megrahi was released from prison in 2009 for medical reasons and died after three years in his country.
In 2003, the Muammar Gaddafi regime officially acknowledged responsibility for the Lockerbie attack and paid $ 2.7 billion in compensation to the families of the victims.
After the assassination of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime in 2011, American and Scottish investigators traveled to Libya to follow up on this case and find out if there were other suspects in it.
That day, British media said investigators returned on behalf of Masoud and Abdullah Al-Senussi, the former Libyan intelligence chief.
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US investigators suspect that Masoud, who at the time of the attack was a member of the intelligence service of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and who was about 32 years old, took over the task of assembling the bomb that exploded aboard the plane.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the suspect is being held in Libya and will be handed over to the United States for trial.
The bomb exploded on December 21, 1988, as the Boeing 747 flew over the village of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board, including 190 US citizens, in addition to 11 people who were on the ground.
In 1991, the US and Scottish courts charged two Libyan intelligence agents, Abdul Basit Ali Muhammad Al-Megrahi and Amin Khalifa Fahima, accused of participating in the attack.
The two men were tried in 2000 by a special Scottish court set up on neutral ground in the Netherlands.
The following year, a court acquitted Fahima and sentenced al-Megrahi, the only one convicted of the attack, to life in prison before commuting his sentence to at least 27 years in prison.
But al-Megrahi was released from prison in 2009 for medical reasons and died after three years in his country.
In 2003, the Muammar Gaddafi regime officially acknowledged responsibility for the Lockerbie attack and paid $ 2.7 billion in compensation to the families of the victims.
Following the assassination of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime in 2011, American and Scottish investigators traveled to Libya to follow up on this case and find out if there were other suspects in it.
That day, British media said investigators returned on behalf of Masoud and Abdullah Al-Senussi, the former Libyan intelligence chief.
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