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Article: Agreement With Libya Reported; Arab League to Take 2 Bombing Suspects; Extradition Expected
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- March 24, 1992
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Yielding to the threat of a U.N. arms and air embargo, Libya
apparently has agreed to hand over to the League of Arab States the
two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over
Lockerbie, Scotland.
Although details of the reported plan remain sketchy with many
aspects still to be worked out, diplomats said the arrangement calls
for the Arab League to give the two suspects to U.N. Secretary
General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who would later hand them over for
trial by the United States or Britain.
One point yet to be clarified is the venue for the trial,
because Libya has continued to press its demand that the suspects,
Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, be tried by ...