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Convicted Lockerbie PanAm airline bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, pictured in Tripoli Central Hospital in Libya on September 9, 2009.
Monday, Aug. 29, 2011

Open quoteAl-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again. We do not hand over Libyan citizens. Gaddafi does.Close quote

  • MOHAMMED AL-ALAGI,
  • justice minister of the Libyan transitional council, saying the country will not extradite Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; Al-Megrahi was released from prison in 2009 because he was near death
Photo: Sabri Elmhedwi / EPA | Source: New York Times