Libyan Justice Minister Al-Jleil says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing

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Libyan Justice Minister Al-Jleil says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing

2011-02-23 21:34:52 GMT+7 (ICT)

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.

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[ukrules]

I think that was quite obvious anyway.

[gotlost]

Surprise Surprise.

[janverbeem]

So finally after 23 years the children are startint throwing mud at each other.What's in it for that AL-Jleil when kadafi gets liquidated?

[Atmos]

image there won't be too many upset about this

CNN: Lockerbie bomber found close to death in Tripoli

Published on August 29, 2011

Washington - The convicted, ailing Lockerbie bomber bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found in Tripoli in a comastose state and near death, according to CNN broadcaster on Sunday.

CNN showed footage of its reporter visiting the elegant home of al-Megrahi, which was apparently built after his controversial release from Scottish prison to return to Libya to die in 2009.

In 2001, al-Megrahi, who suffers from prostate cancer, was convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, in which 270 people died. Of those killed, 189 were US citizens.

The CNN story showed al-Megrahi lying unresponsive in bed, with an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth and connected to a fluid drip. His mother sat next to his bed.

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Al-Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds in 2009, with the explanation that he only had months to live. He received a jubilant welcome on his return to Tripoli.

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Edited August 29, 2011 by Atmos

[Steely Dan]

Apparently he's in a coma according to the BBC, so the truth will never out - how convenient.

[Credo]

And if he weren't in a coma, what is it he could tell us? I doubt that the link between this guy and the Quadaffi is a direct one.

[maidu]

Why would he pick that specific flight? Or perhaps he just gave an order, something like, "I want a large jet full of people going the USA blown up."

P.S. there's another main bomber (besides the one who was apprehended), and there must be Libyan middle men who had a part to play in the mass murder - and subsequent cover up.

[organic]

"To hide this, he did everything in his power to get Megrahi back from Scotland."

How would this hide anything? Megrahi had already long been convicted.