The announcement Sunday that a suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was in U.S. custody was greeted with relief by families of the victims who have sought closure for decades.

"This is what we've been fighting for," Kara Weipz, president of the organization Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, told POLITICO on Sunday. Weipz's brother, Richard Monetti, was a student at Syracuse University who was killed in the attack.

Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, a Libyan man, is in...

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