Libya PM admits role in extraditing Lockerbie suspect

One of Libya’s rival prime ministers admitted Thursday that his government was involved in the extradition to the U.S. of a former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all onboard. U.S. authorities announced they had arrested former intelligence officer Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi on Sunday.

In a televised broadcast Thursday evening, Libyan Prime Minister Hamid Dbeibah said Mas’ud’s extradition was lawful and his government was simply cooperating with an international judicial framework. The U.S. and Libya have no formal extradition agreement.