Pan Am 103 bombing: Libya to allow investigators to question two new suspects

London: British news reports say Libyan authorities will permit questioning of two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. A National Salvation government official told BBC Wednesday that investigators can come to Libya to question the suspects, who are believed to be in prison in Libya on unrelated charges. [caption id=“attachment_2477334” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] In this Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1988 file photo, a police officer walks by the nose of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270 people. AP[/caption] Scottish prosecutors said Thursday, 15 October they have identified two Libyans as suspects in the bombing and want to interview them in Tripoli. Scotland’s Crown office said that Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch had agreed “that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and US investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing.” The two Libyans are suspected of involvement with Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the attack. He succumbed to cancer in 2012. Scottish and US. authorities have not named the two suspects, but the BBC said officials in Tripoli had identified them as Mohammed Abouajela Masud and Abdullah al-Senoussi. British authorities investigating the bombing have previously sought to question al-Senoussi, who was deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s intelligence chief. AP