Scotland, U.S. say's; "Two Libyans Identified As Lockerbie Bombing Suspects"

Pan Am Flight 103

London (CNN)- Two Libyans have been identified as suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, nearly 27 years ago, Scottish and U.S. officials say.

They have asked for Libya's help to interview them.

The 259 people on New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 and 11 people on the ground were killed when it crashed 38 minutes after takeoff from London on December 21, 1988.

Afterward, U.S. and British investigators found fragments of a circuit board and a timer and ruled that a bomb, not mechanical failure, caused the explosion.

Libyan Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was the only person convicted in connection with the bombing.

Scotland's prosecution service, the Crown Office, on Thursday said Scotland's chief public prosecutor known as the lord advocate and the U.S. attorney general had recently agreed there was a legal basis for Scottish and U.S. investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the bombing.

The lord advocate has issued an International Letter of Request to the Libyan attorney general in Tripoli identifying the pair, it said in a statement.

"The Lord Advocate and the U.S. Attorney General are seeking the assistance of the Libyan judicial authorities for Scottish police officers and the FBI to interview the two named suspects in Tripoli.

"The two individuals are suspected of involvement, along with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 in December 1988 and the murder of 270 people," the statement said.

The Libyan Government should comply. Let justice be served. 

The innocent have died enough.