The United States, adopting an old Libyan offer to end the dispute over the Lockerbie bombing, said on Tuesday it was looking at how a Scottish court could sit in the Netherlands to try two Libyan suspects. Libya, under U.N. sanctions for failing to hand over the men accused of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, offered the same solution years ago. The U.S. and British governments have previously demanded the suspects face trial in Scotland or the United States. “It’s a creative alternative that serves the exact same purposes and will call (Libyan leader Muammar) Gaddafi’s bluff if indeed he doesn’t turn them over,” said State Department spokesman James Rubin, speaking after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger put the proposal to relatives of the Lockerbie victims.
