Two new Libyan Lockerbie bombing suspects identified by The — Breaking News

Amin Khalifa Fhimah stood trial with Megrahi, but was acquitted.

Was Megrahi really to blame? He hasn’t been named by USA or Scottish officials as a suspect. Scottish judges ruled that the action should not be allowed.

He has previously said the idea that Megrahi acted alone was “risible”.

Mulholland has requested that Libyan authorities assist in interviewing the two suspects. Any punishment is at the discretion of the court.

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. Any prison sentence would be served in Scotland.

On December 21, 1988, a bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated on a Boeing 747 about 38 minutes into the flight traveling from London to New York City.

The flight was on its way to the Big Apple when it exploded in southern Scotland, above Lockerbie, killing 11 people and everyone on board on the floor.

July 1990 – The British Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Investigation Branch officially reports that an explosive device caused the crash of Pan Am Flight 103. The two suspects are suspected of being involved with Abdelbaset Ali Modmed Al Megrahi. The men are accused of being Libyan intelligence agents.

Dornstein said he was able to track down Mas’ud to a jail in Libya where he says he was serving a 10-plus year sentence on bomb-making charges for booby-trapping the cars of those opposed to Gadhafi.

If they wish to pursue these two suspects, Scottish and American investigators have their work cut out for them.

In 2013, two years after the end of the Gaddafi regime, the Crown Office announced that Scottish police officers had been given permission to visit Libya and conduct inquiries there.

Sally and Bob Berrell lost their son Steve, one of 270 killed in the terrorist attack.

As for Libyans, Jawad says they recognize the tragedy of the Lockerbie bombing, yet it’s hard for them to care about it.

“Many of us believe that Libya wasn’t the only nation involved”.

June 28, 2004 – The United States resumes direct diplomatic ties with Libya after 24 years.

But he said any prosecution would “need to be supported by very much better evidence” than that used against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – the only person so far convicted over the attack.

Family members of the victims welcomed the development. Each family received about $10 million, paid in installments between 2004 and 2008. He was released three years earlier by Scotland’s government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. BP has denied such claims.

Colonel also vowed to continue tracking down Megrahi’s accomplices.

Al-Senoussi is a brother-in-law of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, while Mas-ud was originally treated as a suspect but never charged.