Listening to him, I was reminded of a libel suit he filed against The Sunday Telegraph in the 1990s. Seif told me he didn’t know the full truth about the Lockerbie bombing, which has been shadowed by many competing claims and gaps in the evidentiary trail. (Seif helped negotiate a multibillion-dollar settlement to victims’ families but repeatedly suggested that Libya was being falsely blamed.) He said his father had stopped riding his horse after the humiliation of the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986 and resumed riding it after the Lockerbie bombing. One morning in May, I drove with a Libyan friend named Tahir to an area just outside Tripoli called Yarmouk.

Source: International New York Times July 30, 2021 03:56 UTC