lawyer for two Libyans calls for new guarantees to protect Lockerbie suspects

The lawyer for two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie case, Ibrahim El-Ghowil, launched an attack yesterday on the American - British initiative for trying the Libyan suspects in Holland.

El-Ghowil expressed the Libyan conditions to be fulfilled before the two are delivered for trial in the Netherlands. He said the two Libyan suspects should be allowed permanent communications with their lawyers and families, and he cited necessity of a translation group affiliated to the defense department. He added the two men should be allowed a doctor as well as a preacher to help them carry out religious rituals.

Meanwhile, El-Ghowil denied that there has been any intervention from the Libyan administration in the work of the defense lawyer team.