Given Libya’s instability, that may be a remote prospect.
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“The Lord Advocate has today, therefore, issued an worldwide Letter of Request to the Libyan Attorney General in Tripoli which identifies the two Libyans as suspects in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103”. They believe the suspects were involved along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person ever convicted of the bombing.
Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, 38 minutes after take-off from London.
Most of the victims of the explosion over Lockerbie were Americans on their way home for Christmas.
Megrahi was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He also pledged to dismantle all weapons of mass destruction and joined the U.S.-led fight against terrorism.
The case is still open, and after the 2011 fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Britain asked Libya’s new rulers to help fully investigate. But the country has since been wracked by chaos and political violence, stalling efforts to collect evidence and interview suspects.
“We continue to seek more information, as well as access to those who might have been involved in the planning or execution of the bombing”, said Marc Raimondi, the Justice Department’s national security spokesman.
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scottish police are now seeking permission to interview both Libyans in Tripoli, according to the BBC. He has not been named by USA or Scottish officials as a suspect.
The documentary that named the suspects last month was the result of a 25-year investigation by Ken Dornstein, whose brother died in the attack.
The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing reiterates his call for Megrahi to be released.
Records showed that a week before the Lockerbie bombing, Agela entered Malta, where the bomb that blew up Flight 103 was believed to have originated.
In 2007, a probe identified six areas where a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.
Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (C-L) arrives with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam (C-R) in Tripoli late on August 20, 2009.
“I would welcome the trial, but I think the prospects of a conviction are minimal”.
A man who was originally accused of the bombing alongside Megrahi, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, was found not guilty.
Al Megrahi died in Libya in 2012 after being released from prison on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi maintained his innocence right up until his death in Libya in 2012.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – DECEMBER 21: Candles burn for the victims of the Lockerbie bombing during a service of remembrance to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster at Westminster Abbey on December 21, 2013 in London, England.
