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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr<\/a> says the Lockerbie bombing suspect must face the death penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barr was U.S. Attorney General when he announced charges against Abu Agila Mohammad Mas\u2019ud Kheir Al-Marimi on Dec. 21, 2020. That date marked 32 years since a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103<\/a> over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas\u2019ud had been taken into U.S. custody. Mas\u2019ud appeared in federal court on Monday, charged with an act of international terrorism<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas\u2019ud was the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LOCKERBIE VICTIM’S WIDOW SPEAKS BEFORE PAN AM FLIGHT 103’S ALLEGED BOMBMAKER MAKES FIRST COURT APPEARANCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In an interview with the BBC published on Tuesday, Barr said it was appropriate that the trial take place in the U.S. given that 190 of the 270 Lockerbie victims were American.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said he wanted the first trial \u2013 which took place in the Netherlands in 2000 \u2013 to be held in the U.S. In that earlier trial, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi \u2013 was eventually found guilty of murder. His co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I wanted it to be tried in the United States as well. And I wanted to pursue the death penalty in the United States,” Barr said. “I didn\u2019t want to proceed to Scotland, partly because Scotland would not impose the death penalty.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: “Personally, I think terrorists who commit these kinds of atrocities should be executed.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said in court that they would not be pursuing the death penalty because that punishment was not available for those specific crimes when the bombing occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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