New York, September 26: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi told CNN Friday he had met with some of the families of those who died in the 1988 bombing of a US jet over Lockerbie to offer his condolences.
“Yes, I met some of them yesterday. It was a friendly meeting,” the Libyan leader told CNN in excerpts of the interview released Friday. Kadhafi is making his first visit to the United Nations in New York.
“I offered my condolences for the families who lost them. They also expressed their condolences for my daughter who was killed for the American raid in 1986,” he said, speaking through a translator.
A former Libyan agent is the only person to have been convicted of the murder of 270 people in the bombing of a transatlantic flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie more than two decades ago.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was freed from a Scottish jail last month, and returned to Tripoli where he met with a warm welcome, triggering fury from the US administration and American relatives of victims of the atrocity.
–Agencies