British police, FBI, visit Libya for talks on Lockerbie bombing investigation
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Scotland's top legal officer says Scottish police and the FBI visited Libya this week as part of their investigation of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland said Friday that a four-person team of Scottish police and prosecutors, along with an FBI delegation, met senior Libyan officials in Tripoli Monday.
The trip was not announced in advance for security reasons.
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Mulholland said the discussions "were positive and it is hoped there will be further progress as a result."
The December 1988 bombing of a Pan Am plane over the Scottish town killed 270 people, many of them American.
Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person convicted over the attack. He was released from a Scottish prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds and died of cancer last year.