8.28.2011

New leaders in Libya 'won't handover' Megrahi



The leaders of the forces which deposed Col Gaddafi in Libya have said they do not intend to allow the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber.

Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi was the only person to have been convicted in connection with the 1988 airliner bombing.

He was released from a Scottish prison two years ago on health grounds.

There have been calls for him to be returned to the UK, or to be tried in the United States.

Mohammed Al-Alagi, a spokesman for the new leadership in Tripoli, said: "We will not hand over any Libyan citizen to the West.

"And from points A, B and C of justice, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi has already been judged once, and will not be judged again.

"We will not hand over any Libyan nationals, it's Gaddafi who hands over Libyan nationals."


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