The head of the Libyan national unity government, Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba, stated that the Libyan citizen Abu Ageila Masoud Al-Maryami Who was extradited to the United States of America for trial in the bombing of ‘Lockerbie’, a terrorist accused of manufacturing explosives which killed more than 200 innocent people.
In a speech addressed to the Libyan people on Thursday evening, Al-Dabaiba stressed that it will not allow the “Lockerbie” dossier to be reopened, calling on Libyans to differentiate the “Lockerbie” dossier in terms of state responsibility, which was closed with the billions paid for by the former regime with Libyan funds, and in terms of criminal course Associated with accused terrorist Abu Ajila Masoud Al-Marimi, one of the conspirators who made the bomb and placed it in the passenger’s luggage, which resulted in the more than 200 people died in a single operation, and claimed that what he had done could not be defended.
Al-Dabaiba attacked all those who criticized the decision to extradite Bouajila to the United States of America and who spoke of a violation of Libyan sovereignty, and said that one of them is “a client who receives funding from other countries and the ‘other is a drug dealer.”
Al-Dabaiba indicated that Libya has cooperated with the US authorities in recent years in the “Lockerbie” dossier, and that foreign intelligence officers have assisted the investigation in Libya, noting that “Abu Ajila, who holds both Libyan and Tunisian nationality , was mentioned in the investigation two years ago, even before the advent of your government, and a sentence has been passed against him”. An arrest warrant from Interpol.
He added that his government has become obliged to cooperate in this file in accordance with international laws and legislation relating to terrorist operations conducted abroad, saying, “I will not accept that Libya is held again responsible for the consequences of terrorist operations a due to the presence of suspected terrorists on its soil”.
Al-Dabaiba confirmed that his government had sent a team to the United States of America to look into the case of Abu-Ajeelah Masoud Al-Marimi, and also directed the assignment of a law firm to defend him and facilitate the travel of the his family to follow him.
Interestingly, Abu-Ageila’s extradition process to the United States for trial has sparked widespread anger against Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba’s government and fears of reopening the Lockerbie case, which has been settled and closed between the two countries since then 2008, amid calls that those involved in his extradition be prosecuted.
