EXTRAIT DU JOURNAL LE MONDE (28 août 11) :
Les rebelles ont annoncé dimanche qu’ils ne livreraient « aucun
ressortissant libyen aux Occidentaux », mettant un terme aux spéculations
sur la possible extradition de l’agent libyen condamné par la justice
écossaise dans l’affaire de l’attentat de Lockerbie, qui fit 270 morts
le 21 décembre 1988 à bord d’un Boeing de la Pan Am et au sol.
Donné pour mourant, Megrahi, ancien agent des services secrets
libyens, avait bénéficié en 2009 d’une mesure de libération anticipée.
Les médecins, qui avaient diagnostiqué une cancer de la prostate en
phase terminale, lui donnaient une espérance de vie de trois mois. Il
avait été accueilli en héros par le régime Kadhafi à son retour en Libye
et a disparu de son domicile de Tripoli depuis l’entrée des insurgés
dans la capitale.
autre article dans le New York Times :
Lockerbie Planner Reported Near Death
TRIPOLI, Libya — An official with the rebel government on Sunday ruled out extraditing the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted as the mastermind of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and released from a Scottish prison two years ago on the ground that he was near death.
The hero’s welcome back in Libya for the bombing planner, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, and his failure to die infuriated the United States and other Western governments, and calls for his return had been mounting as the Libyan revolution unfolded.
The rebels’ resolve to protect the former officer may prove only briefly relevant, however. Just hours after the official spoke, CNN reported that Mr. Megrahi was near death at his villa in the capital here, broadcasting images of a frail man lying comatose in an oxygen mask.
Mr. Megrahi’s death would end the possibility of eliciting his full account of the Libyan government’s role in the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, 189 of them Americans. But it would also remove a potentially serious point of friction between the rebels’ Transitional National Council and its Western backers.
Politicians and lawmakers in the United States had begun calling for his return to finish answering for the bombing. But the justice minister of the transitional council equated an extradition of Mr. Megrahi with a betrayal characteristic of the hated and fugitive dictator, Muammar el-Qaddafi.
“Al-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again,” the minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, told reporters in Tripoli, according to Reuters. “We do not hand over Libyan citizens,” he added. “Qaddafi does.”
Less than eight hours later, Nic Robertson of CNN reported having found Mr. Megrahi at the villa, where his family said that it was caring for him without help and that he was dying.
“We just give him oxygen,” the report quoted Mr. Megrahi’s son, Khaled, as saying. “Nobody gives us any advice. There is no doctor. There is nobody to ask. We don’t have any phone line to call anybody.”
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Quel dommage qu’AF n’ait pas ouvert la ligne PARIS/TRIPOLI au début de l’année…
Rappel de la position de l’UNAC sur l’ouverture par AF de la ligne paris/tripoli
