AL refuses U.K after Lockerbie

Arab league secretary general Esmat Abdl Meguid has said there would be no point in sending Arab and African observers to a possible trial in Scotland of two Libyans indicted for the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

"Attendance of Arab and African observers at the trial will not be useful because they do not have the power to remark on the procedures and progress of the trial "Megid said.

British foreign secretary Rabin cook told parliament on Tuesday he was asking UN secretary general Kofi Annan, Abdl Maguid and his counter -part in the organization for African unity to send teams to see Scottish legal system in action with the hope of breaking a deadlock preventing the trail.

Al Ahrar daily said today November 3.