US judge sets January 2027 trial for Lockerbie bombing suspect

A US federal judge scheduled a January 2027 trial for Abu Agila Masud, the Libyan intelligence operative accused of constructing the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988. The trial date is set more than a year out, indicating complex pretrial proceedings. This is a long-delayed prosecution of a decades-old terrorist attack, with the suspect in US custody since 2022.