Tripoli: CIA chief William Burns has met Libya's interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based government said on Thursday. 'Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibeh hosted the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns' at the cabinet office in Tripoli, along with Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush and Libyan intelligence chief Hussein al-Ayeb, Dbeibah's government said in a Facebook post. Libyan media have reported that Burns would also visit the headquarters of eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar, Dbeibah's key rival. Burns, CIA chief since March 2021, visited Libya in 2014 as under-secretary of state for the Middle East. Kadhafi's overthrow and killing in the 2011 revolt plunged Libya into division and violence.
