Scottish Police Talk to Libyan Defector

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Scottish prosecutors and police have interviewed Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister who last week defected to Britain, in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, a Crown Office spokeswoman said.

Last week, U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Mr. Koussa, won't be offered immunity from British and international justice.

Officers of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, supported by the Crown prosecution service, Thursday met Mr. Koussa in relation to the ongoing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing, a spokeswoman said in a statement.

The spokeswoman declined to comment further.

Scottish prosecutors have kept the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing open since former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Baset al-Megrahi became the only person convicted of the bombing of a Pan Am airliner as it flew over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

Mr. Koussa has at times been alleged to have had a role in the bombing. The regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi always argued it had nothing to do with the attack, which killed 270 people, and that Mr. al-Megrahi was innocent. Mr. Koussa also played a role in negotiating the release of Mr. al-Megrahi on Aug. 20, 2009.

The interview could shed more light on the orchestration of the Lockerbie bombing—something that many family members of Pan Am Flight 103's victims have long desired. Victims groups in both the U.K. and the U.S. have called for authorities to further investigate the incident.

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