British police had eight other Lockerbie suspects: reportBritish police investigating the Lockerbie Lockerbie (lŏk`ərbē), village (1991 pop. 3,892), Scotland, site of a 1988 airplane crash. On Dec. 21, 1988, a New York–bound Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight as a result of a terrorist bomb and crashed in and around Lockerbie. bombing wanted to investigate eight other potential suspects, a former head of the probe told The Scotsman newspaper Monday. However, they were never interviewed, said Stuart Henderson, a former detective chief superintendent Chief Superintendent is a senior rank in police forces organised on the British model. United Kingdom In the British police, a Chief Superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "Chief Super") is senior to a Superintendent and junior to an Assistant Chief Constable (or a who led the Lockerbie Incident Control Centre from 1988 until 1992. His comments came as Scottish police said they were re-examining the evidence surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. the 1988 bombing as they seek new suspects in connection with the attack. Detectives are reviewing the case to establish who might have acted with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded ex·plode v. ex·plod·ed, ex·plod·ing, ex·plodes v.intr. 1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people. "We submitted eight other names of people that we wished to interview that were strong suspects. Unfortunately, we never got that opportunity," Henderson told The Scotsman. "I am delighted they are making moves to see if there is anything further, because no matter what anybody says, we did not ever say it was just Megrahi we were after. We never said that. "We were after his bosses." The suspects were thought to be all male, The Scotsman said. The newspaper quoted an unnamed source as saying Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi "wouldn't release anybody. "Without going over the top, we are talking about some high-level people. When you have high-level people, they have immunity immunity, ability of an organism to resist disease by identifying and destroying foreign substances or organisms. Although all animals have some immune capabilities, little is known about nonmammalian immunity. , so it is very difficult." Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. on Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. that the investigation "was not formally closed and that's why it's wholly appropriate if there are grounds for taking new steps, that they should be taken." Meanwhile Kadhafi said relations between Tripoli Tripoli, city, Lebanon Tripoli (trĭp`əlē) or Tarabulus (täräb`  l and London were now "very good", in an interview with Sky News television out Monday.
The British government denies it put pressure on the Scottish authorities to release Megrahi in order to smooth key trade deals with Libya. "We have economic relations, investment relations, British companies, banks and, indeed, investments over there," Kadhafi said. "Economic relations were good even during the time of Lockerbie between our two countries. They were never affected. "Even during the time when we had no diplomatic relations, when diplomatic relations were cut off, British companies were working in the oil sector and British banks were dealing with Libyan banks and we had commercial ties." 
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