They have identified two Libyan suspects thought to have been involved with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270 people in December 1988. Representatives from both countries have said they want to interview Mohammed Abouajela Masud and Abdullah al-Senussi over the atrocity.
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Dornstein said it’s heartening to know the Scottish and US governments are pursing the bombing suspects, a task he acknowledged isn’t easy given the state of affairs in Libya. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, head of security with Libyan Arab Airlines, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in January 2001.
The relative of a young woman who was killed in the Lockerbie bombing has spoken following the naming of two further suspects in the killings. The crimes they have been charged with in Libya are not related to the Lockerbie bombing.
The Tripoli government confirmed the names, but said the attorney general’s office had not been officially informed yet.
Ma’sud greeted Adelbaset Al-Megrahi on his return to Libya in August 2009 after his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds.
Al-Megrahi’s conviction was largely based on the testimony of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified him as having bought a shirt, scraps of which were wrapped around a timing device discovered in the airliner’s wreckage.
Scotland’s Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC recently met the US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, to review progress in the ongoing investigation.
On Thursday, days after the final installment aired, US and Scottish investigators announced they’ve identified two new Libyan suspects in the bombing.
She told ITV News: ‘They’ve [the two suspects] probably been around for years and nothing has been done so we think it’s high time a real effort was made to get to the rest of the truth and to get to those involved’.
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 blew up in the sky over Lockerbie, in south-western Scotland, after a bomb concealed in a suitcase exploded, resulting in the deaths of all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.
Dr Swire always argued al-Megrahi was used as a scapegoat and that Libya was a side issue; suspecting Iranian involvement. That’s only something we will need to wait and see. He reportedly searched files kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the former East German police and a jail in Libya to come up with a list of eight to 10 names of individuals who seemed to have played a role in the bombing, but have never been indicted.
“He is too hot in Libya”.
In 2003, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi accepted his country’s responsibility for the bombing and paid compensation to the victims’ families, but he did not admit personally ordering the attack on the aircraft.
Gadhafi also agreed to dismantle all of Libya’s weapons of mass destruction and joined the U.S.-led fight against terrorism.
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Rosemary Wolfe, whose step-daughter Miriam was among 270 people killed when Pan Am flight 103 went down over the Scottish town in 1988, said she had little hope that there would be “an enlightened moment” from any interview with the two men.
