Who is lockerbie bomber

Al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who died in , was jailed for life in after being found guilty of the murder of passengers, 16 crew and 11 residents of Lockerbie in the deadliest attack in British history. Five judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Scotland refused the appeal against his conviction. After years of wrangling and sanctions against Libya, al-Megrahi and a second man, Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima, went on trial in in the Netherlands under Scottish law.

He died three years later. A Scottish court is now considering a posthumous appeal against his conviction by his family. It says this will open a new chapter in one of the world's longest and most sprawling terrorism investigations.

The new charges are expected to be announced by outgoing US attorney-general, William Barr. He held the same position when the US announced its first charges against Megrahi and another Libyan suspect, later acquitted, in We have no higher priority," Mr Barr said at the time.

But it adds that he was jailed in Libya at one point for unrelated crimes. Mr Masud is alleged to have been a top bomb-maker for late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Neither the US justice department nor the Libyan authorities have commented on the issue.

He told the BBC at the time that the Libyan national was "a mystery figure" who was named in the initial investigation and "was said to have been a technical expert". The documentary alleged that Mr Masud had also been linked to a bombing at a disco in West Berlin in , which killed three people. It also reported that he was imprisoned in Libya over his role in the uprising that ousted Gaddafi. The jumbo jet's shattered nose, resting on its side in a Scottish field.

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E-mail to a friend. Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg del. Sound Off: Your opinions and comments. By Michael Holden. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, an intelligence officer who died in , was jailed for life in for the murder of passengers, 16 crew and 11 residents of the Scottish town in the deadliest militant attack in British history.