Gaddafi confidante Daad Sharab who visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi three times in prison hopes his family may finally find “justice” after the arrest of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi
Colonel Gaddafi knew the Lockerbie bomber was innocent of mass murder but let him go to prison as part of a political “deal”, according to his closest adviser. Daad Sharab, 61, visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi three times in prison in Scotland and was Gaddafi’s confidante for 22 years.
A statement from the US Dept of Justice last year claimed Megrahi met Mas’ud in Malta and instructed him to prepare the bomb. The bomb on board Pan Am flight 103 detonated over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, and killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground. Top news stories today But the Libyan leader knew “he had little chance of winning”, according to Sharab, “so he made a political deal to lift the sanctions and that involved Megrahi.”
“He thought that if they caught him alone, they might beat him and murder him. He had been in good health, he feared that he had been injected with something to give him cancer. “Gaddafi himself told me that it was not Libya who did it but Syria and Iran. And I think the British knew that but, at the time, they needed Iran and Syria because of the Gulf War.”
He died at the age of 60 after serving just eight-and-a-half-years of his life sentence, protesting his innocence to the very end. Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter Flora, travelled to Tripoli to see him before he died. “I have never dealt in my life with a suitcase that contains an offence at any airport in the world. My presence at Malta, if it were really the beginning of this crime, as claimed by the allegation, was merely to get some necessities.”
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