The lawyer for families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing fears the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's opposition to a compromise plan could be a "major stumbling block" to a trial. Colonel Gaddafi has attacked a proposal by the United Kingdom and the United States to try two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case in the Netherlands, saying Washington and London planned to use the Netherlands as a "transit point" before transferring the suspects on to Britain, which Libya rejected.
Dr Jim Swire, the families' lawyer and spokesman, says he believes it is right that the suspects should serve sentences in Scotland if convicted.
"If Colonel Gaddafi is now saying that he will not abide by that, then he is going against the agreement to hold the trial under Scottish law," he says.
Colonel Gaddafi is taking a tough stand, but has not rejected the US-British offer outright, say analysts.
Source: Flight Daily News