STOCKHOLM -- Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya's ex-justice minister claims Muammar al-Qaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.
Expressen on Wednesday quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Qaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie." He didn't describe the proof.
Abdel-Jalil stepped down as justice minister to protest the violence against anti-government demonstrations.
Qaddafi was quite the rogue leader before Reagan attacked him. He toned down extremely after that.
(An aside: 30 years ago the news people spelled his name as Kaddafi. Now I see that they spell it as Gaddafi.)
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