84027741 Libya has refused to continue to investigate the bombing over Lockerbie
Libya will not execute the request of the Scottish prosecutors looking for new clues that could help in investigating the explosion of an airliner over the town of Lockerbie in 1988. According to Reuters, the Minister of Justice, the National Transitional Council, Mohammed Al-alag, told reporters that he considers the matter closed. In an interview with Agence France-Presse Minister said that the only person convicted of the bombing over Lockerbie Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi has already spent in custody few years. "We should not punish twice for the same ", – said al-alag. The Minister added that the request for assistance in investigating terrorist attacks at his disposal yet. Earlier, Scotland September 26 prosecutors referred to the National Transitional Council's request to provide documents and give access to the witnesses that could help investigators to find other organizers of the explosion. Among the latter, in particular, could prove to be a former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and some officials of his government. American Airlines plane blew up Pan Am in the sky over Lockerbie December 21, 1988. The victims of the attack were 270 people. In 1999, Libya has given the UK a suspect in the bombing of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. Soon, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and in 2009 released a terminally ill terrorist homeland. In Libya, al-Megrahi was a hero. In August 2011 it was reported that a terrorist is in a coma in a hospital in Tripoli, but no information about his death has not yet been reported.
