Gadhafi Again Offers To Give Up Bombing Suspects

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has again offered to hand over two suspects wanted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, saying they can stand trial anywhere in the world except the United States and Britain.

“Apart from these two places, Libya will agree on any place suggested by the international community,” Gadhafi said in a speech monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp.

A total of 270 people were killed in the bombing of the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The BBC said Wednesday that Gadhafi spoke at the the Mediterranean port of Darnah to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the evacuation of U.S. military personnel from Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on June 11, 1970. However, it wasn’t immediately clear what day Gadhafi made the speech.

Libya has made previous offers to send the two bombing suspects, Abdel Basset Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, to sites outside Britain and the United States, where Gadhafi maintains they cannot receive a fair trial.

The United States and Britain have consistently rejected the offers and it was not immediately clear why the Libyan leader was repeating them now.