Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered the 1988 bombing of Pan Am
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a former Libyan cabinet minister
was quoted as saying by a Swedish newspaper on Wednesday.
Former
Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil, reported to have
resigned this week over the violence used by the government against
protesters, told the tabloid Expressen he had evidence Gaddafi ordered
the bombing that killed 270 people.
"I have proof that Gaddafi
gave the order for (the) Lockerbie (bombing)," Expressen quoted Al
Jeleil as saying in an interview at an undisclosed large town in Libya.
The newspaper did not say what the evidence of Gaddafi's involvement in the bombing was.
A
Libyan, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was tried and jailed in Scotland for
the bombing, and Gaddafi, in power since 1969, was branded an
international pariah for years.
In 2009, the Scottish government
freed al-Megrahi on humanitarian grounds after doctors said he had
terminal prostate cancer, a decision strongly criticised by the United
States. He returned to Libya and is still alive.
"In order to
conceal it (his role in ordering the bombing), he did everything in his
power to get Megrahi back from Scotland," al Jeleil was quoted as
saying.
"He (Gaddafi) ordered Megrahi to do it."
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