Libyan Justice Minister Al-Jleil says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing

by BNO News on February 23, 2011

LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil on Wednesday told a Swedish newspaper that Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people.

Al-Jleil told Stockholm-based newspaper Expressen that Gaddafi was the person who gave the order to bomb Pan Am Flight 103, a daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

"I have evidence that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing," Al-Jleil was cited as saying by Expressen. "To hide this, he did everything in his power to get Megrahi back from Scotland."

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of being behind the Lockerbie bombing, but was released in 2009 on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya.

4 Responses to “Libyan Justice Minister Al-Jleil says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing”

SarahM Says:
23. February 2011 at 2:52 pm

“I have evidence that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing,” Really.
So why announce this now? Why did this little man sit idly by with this “evidence”?

Franklin Delano Flintstone Says:
23. February 2011 at 4:18 pm

Gee, imagine that. Who would’a thought?

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