An East German colonel was a key informant in the 30-year hunt for the alleged Lockerbie bomb maker. The FBI were able to identify the suspect from details given by the army officer who defected to the West.
He said a man he believed killed two US soldiers in a west Berlin nightclub in 1986 was a dark-skinned Libyan called Abu Agila Mas’ud.
The soldier said investigators discovered the name from hotel records where he had stayed. For years the FBI were unable to identify the bomb maker nicknamed The Ghost.
US prosecutors are poised to file an extradition request to Tripoli where he is serving a 10-year term for bomb-making. It would be the first US trial for the 1988 downing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town that killed 270
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