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David CowanScotland’s Home Affairs Correspondent

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Lockerbie bombings were killed in 270 people in 1988.

US prosecutors claim that a Libyan man has freely admitted that he has been involved in attacks against Americans, including Lockerbie’s bombing since 1988, and an aborted attempt to kill an American politician with a bobbi -caught with Bobby.

It is said that Abu Aguila Mas’d Cire Al -Marimi acknowledged his role in the murder of 270 people when Pan Am 103 was departed over the Scottish city when he was questioned at a Libyan detention facility in 2012.

Known as Mas’d, the 74-year-old claimed that three masked men forced him to make a statement after threatening him and his family.

His lawyers are trying to stop him from being used as evidence in his Washington process next year.

In response, lawyers from the US Department of Justice said they could prove in court that the statement was “voluntary, reliable and accurate”.

The existence of Mas’ud’s alleged recognition was first discovered in 2020 when the United States announced it was accused of the building and priming the bomb used on the PAN AM 103.

Six’s father has been accused of being a former colonel at Libya’s Intelligence Service and is in the US arrest of 2022.

He was admitted that he was not guilty of the allegations and should be a lawsuit in the District Court for the Colombia District in April.

Mas’d’s lawyers are trying to stop jurors from hearing about the statement and have applied for a request to be suppressed.

They claim that it was forced after the revolution, which removed Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.

Former dictator regime members are said to have been aimed at illegal killings, abductions and torture when Masud was abducted from his home by armed men next year.

He was taken to an unofficial prison facility, where other prisoners were beaten and abused and were in a small room when three masked men had a piece of paper to him.

His lawyers told him that his manuscript content began with an order he had to admit to Lockerbie’s bombing and another terrorist attack.

“Basic terrorist attacks”

Mas’d claims that he was told to remember what he had said about the incidents and repeated it when he was questioned by someone else the next day.

Fearing his safety and that of his children, he said he felt that he had no choice but to comply.

In a response to the defense request, lawyers from the US Department of Justice said the court was asked to suppress the “extremely relevant evidence” for Mas’d’s guilt in “two major terrorist attacks against Americans.”

It is said that the version of Mas’Ud’s events is implausible and incorrect and claim that the content of the statement can be confirmed by reliable independent evidence gathered for many years.

Prosecutors claim that Masud and other former members of the Gaddafi Intelligence Service were conducted in a secret prison managed by a militia when they were questioned by an experienced Libyan police officer.

They claim that in the chaos of the period after the revolution, the facility is the “safest place” for Mas’d and other agents, given the violence and anti-gaddafi moods prevailing at the time.

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For the arrest of Aukua Makle Al-Marimed Hams in the detention of December 20222.

According to a police officer who questioned Masud, the facility was “well managed”, the prisoners were not restrained and there were no signs of torture or coercion.

The employee has said that for two days a confident and healthy mass describes his involvement in the attacks of Pan Am 103 in detail.

The FBI also claims that it has admitted that it has built a device that broke out at a nightclub in West Berlin in 1986, killing three people, including two US troops, and hurting dozens more.

He is also said to have told his role in an attempt at the life of an unnamed US Secretary of State at a Pakistan State Funeral.

Mas’d is said to have explained that someone traveling with the American politician has carried a overalls trapped.

Mas’d’s task was to detonate the device, but he chose not to do so after learning that the person who wears the coat does not know that he is on a suicide mission.

He decided “not to press the trigger”, although his chief of the intelligence service was with him at the time and asked what was happening.

US prosecutors said: “Intelligence operator wishing to unilaterally refuse to fulfill a deadly assignment while in the presence of its chief in this intelligence operation is unlikely to be particularly susceptible to coercion or pressure.”

Confession hidden for three years

It was January 2017 before the Libyan authorities provided a copy of the alleged recognition of Scottish investigators, who in turn gave it to the Americans.

The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice explained that the Libyan police officer had aware of the interviews with Mas’d and the other prisoners contain highly sensitive information.

Given the chaos and instability in Libya, he had decided to keep them with him until he found someone he could trust.

He hid the report in his home for three years until 2015 when he handed it over to a senior Libyan government official.

US prosecutors say that the version of Mas’d’s events does not withstand control and the “final remedy” should not be used.

The hearing, which will decide whether the statement should be detained by the jurors will be held in a timely manner.

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