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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Monday that the world had been deceived over the Lockerbie bombing, defying U.S. and British demands that he accept responsibility for the attack.
He repeated that neither the Libyan state nor Libyan secret agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted last week of the Pan Am airliner bombing, bore any guilt for the attack that killed 270 people over the Scottish town in 1988.
The Libyan leader attacked prosecution evidence against al-Megrahi in his Monday address, but offered no specific new revelations on the case.
He called al-Megrahi a “hostage, not a convict” but also dismissed rival theories that it was Syrian or Palestinian agents who carried out the Lockerbie bombing.
