The US Justice Department has unveiled charges against the Libyan who allegedly built the bomb that exploded aboard Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland exactly 32 years ago.
Attorney General Bill Barr said a former Libyan intelligence operative, "Abu Agela Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi," helped build the explosive device that blew up the aircraft - killing 259 people, including 190 Americans, aboard the US-bound flight and 11 people on the ground.
"At long last, this man responsible for killing Americans and many others, will be subject to justice for his crimes," Mr Barr said in a press conference.
The wreckage of the bombed flight came down on the Dumfries and Galloway town on the night of 21 December 1988.
Pam Am Flight 103 was blown up by the detonation of an explosive stored in a suitcase in the plane hold.
Many believe the atrocity was committed in revenge for the downing of an Iran Air passenger flight by a US missile cruiser earlier in 1988.
The only other person ever convicted of the bombing, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, died in 2012 after being released from prison on compassionate grounds.
