The Arab League offered to handle security and travel for two Libyan suspects if they are tried in the Netherlands for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. U.S. and British officials had long demanded that the trial take place in the United States or Britain, but said this week they were considering a trial in another country.
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