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To: Timelord who wrote (716)8/26/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Greywolf   of 2742
 
Libya Accepts Pan Am 103 Trial Plan

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Libya today accepted a U.S.-British proposal to try two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in the Netherlands, the Libyan Foreign
Ministry said.

Earlier, a letter was made public in which Libya asked the U.N. Security Council to delay any decision to give it more time to study the proposal, which calls for the suspects
to be tried under Scottish law. The letter represented the first official reaction from Tripoli on the plan for the Netherlands trial.

But later in the day, the Libyan ministry released a statement saying it ''announces its acceptance of ... the new position of the United Kingdom and the United States.''

Two Libyan suspects - Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah - are accused of planting a bomb aboard the flight, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing 270 people. Among the dead were 189 Americans.

The U.S.-British offer calls for the suspects to face a panel of three Scottish judges in the Netherlands. Before making the compromise, Britain and the United States had
insisted the trial be held on their territories.

Under the proposal, the suspects would not be extradited from the Netherlands. It also says that if found guilty, they would serve their sentences in the United Kingdom.

In its statement Wednesday, Libya also urged the United Nations to lift its travel sanctions against the country. By accepting this position, the Foreign Ministry ''stresses the
need to lift the sanctions.''
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