Libya: Scotland's senior prosecutor secures Lockerbie guarantees Frank Mulholland, the Lord Advocate, and Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, were in Tripoli last week to meet Abdurahim el-Keib, the Libyan prime minister. The Transitional National Government in Libya told the Foreign Office at the end of last year that it would allow police from Dumfries and Galloway to travel to the country to continue their probe into the bombing. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was freed by the SNP administration in Scotland in August 2009, remains the only man convicted over the atrocity in which 270 people died in 1988. Frank Mulholland QC, Scotland's Lord Advocate, and Robert S Mueller, director of the FBI, met with the Libyan prime minister Abdurahim el-Keib to discuss the ongoing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing. "The Libyan authorities confirmed that they fully understood the importance of dealing with the tragic issues left behind by Colonel Gaddafi and his regime, both in Libya and overseas," said a Crown Office spokesperson. The Lord Advocate expressed his desire to the Libyan prime minister that there will be a positive response to his recent request for co-operation.