/ 24 May 1999

‘GADAFFI ORDERED LOCKERBIE BOMB’

LONDON’S The Sunday Times claims it has evidence that Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi played a direct part in ordering the 1998 Lockerbie bombing of a PanAm jet. The paper said it is unable to publish full details of its evidence after Treasury Solicitors said that unless certain information is removed from the report, they will seek an injunction banning its publication. The newspaper said that a British intelligence operation has “produced clear evidence of Gadaffi’s personal involvement in the bombing of Pan Am 103”. According to the weekly, the Libyan leader ordered his Eternal Security Organisation to bomb an American airliner in retaliation for the United States attack on Tripoli, which killed Gadaffi’s adopted daughter.