UK, US seem split on Lockerbie

London - Britain said yesterday it still wanted two Libyans to stand trial in Scotland or the United States on charges of blowing…

London - Britain said yesterday it still wanted two Libyans to stand trial in Scotland or the United States on charges of blowing up a US airliner over Scotland in 1988.

The Foreign Office junior minister, Mr Tony Lloyd, spoke to parliament without mentioning a US State Department plan, put to relatives earlier yesterday, to seek a "creative alternative" under which the men might be tried by a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands.

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