Gaddafi is a Freemason, Lockerbie trial told

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Gaddafi is a Freemason, Lockerbie trial told

September 27 2000 at 05:09pm

Camp Zeist, Netherlands - A Libyan double agent testifying in the Lockerbie bombing trial claimed on Wednesday that Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was a Freemason.

Under cross-examination by a lawyer for two Libyans accused of planting the bomb that destroyed a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, Abdul Majid Giaka was asked: "How did you discover that Colonel Gaddafi is a Mason?"

It was one of the few times Gaddafi's name has been evoked during the trial and Majid, a Libyan agent in Malta who turned CIA informer and defected to the United States in 1991, at first refused to answer the question.

But after the presiding judge, Lord Ranald Sutherland, instructed the witness to respond, Majid said: "I know that from a person, but I cannot divulge the identity of that person. That person is in Libya."