Libya Makes Offer on Suspects
ANKARA, Turkey — Libya’s No. 2 man said Tuesday that Libya will surrender suspects charged with blowing up U.S. and French jetliners if an international commission examines the evidence and seeks their extradition.
Staff Maj. Abdulsalam Jalloud, the most powerful man in the radical North African state after Col. Moammar Kadafi, suggested that U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali set up such a commission.
“If such an objective, legal commission is set up and it asks for (extradition), it will be accepted by us,†Jalloud said.
Jalloud arrived in Turkey on Monday on a regional tour seeking support for Libya following a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Libya surrender the accused. He met with President Turgut Ozal and Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel on Tuesday.
Britain and the United States have charged two Libyan intelligence agents with the December, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
France has charged four Libyans, including a Kadafi brother-in-law, in the 1989 destruction of a UTA jet over Niger, killing 170 people.
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