Final preparations are underway in Holland for the hand-over of the two Libyan men suspected of the Lockerbie bombing. The trial will mark the end of a 10-year manhunt, six months of negotiations, as well as the suspension of UN Security Council sanctions against Libya that include an air and flight embargo.
Libya pledged last month to hand over the two suspects to the United Nations by Tuesday. Camp Zeist, a former US Air base near Utrecht, has been put under Scottish sovereignty for the purposes of the trial. More than 100 Scottish troops and police have been drafted in to the area.
Around a hundred police and prison officers are currently standing by at a Dutch air base awaiting the arrival of the Libyans. The man who will accompany them men from Tripoli, UN Representative Hans Correll, was understood to have taken an overnight flight from New York.
The United States and Britain say they have evidence that the two Libyans planted a bomb inside a suitcase that exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, over the Scottish village of Lockerbie. A total of 270 people were killed in the air and on the ground, most of them Americans.
