Was Freed Lockerbie Bomber a Patsy?

[Henk Elegeert]

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Het valt niet uit te sluiten, Cees. Alle partijen waren er destijds op
gebrand de onderlinge  verhoudingen snel te verbeteren. Koste, wat het
kost?

Henk Elegeert


2009/8/21 Cees Binkhorst <ceesbink at xs4all.nl>:
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> Wat zou ons nou de rechtspleging voor Lybiers kunnen schelen?
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> Groet / Cees
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> http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/08/20/was-freed-lockerbie-bomber-a-patsy.html
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> August 20, 2009 03:22 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print
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> Scotland today released terminally ill Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the man
> convicted of blowing up Pan Am 103 on December 21, 1988. The decision was
> made on the grounds of compassion—let him see his homeland one more time
> before he shuffles off this mortal coil. And not surprisingly the move has
> spurred howls of outrage (why should he get more compassion than the 270
> people killed in that terrorist attack?).
>
> But there are some who believe that al-Megrahi should never have been
> convicted in the first place, that he was, to use the Lee Harvey
> Oswald-ism, a patsy. Journalist Nathan Thrall laid out the case here in
> January, a few days after the 20th anniversary of the bombing. He wrote:
>
>    An official Scottish review body has declared that a "miscarriage of
> justice may have occurred" in the conviction of the Libyan
> intelligence officer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. The reviewers examined a
> secret document, provided to the United Kingdom by a foreign
> government and seen during Megrahi's trial by only the prosecution,
> that they said cast serious doubts on Megrahi's guilt. A new appeal of
> Megrahi's conviction is scheduled for this coming spring. The U.N.
> special observer appointed by Kofi Annan to Megrahi's trial, Hans
> Koechler, has declared that Megrahi was wrongfully convicted, as have
> the legal architect of his special trial, Prof. Robert Black, and a
> spokesperson for the families of the British victims, Jim Swire.
>
> He lists other problems with the prosecutions' case and notes that high
> ranking Libyans have pooh-poohed the admission of guilt, saying that they
> were buying peace and that was the cost. Thrall suggests Iran might truly
> have been behind the bombing. Who's right? In all likelihood, questions
> about the Lockerbie bombing will take their place in the ranks of numerous
> other American conspiracy theories.
>
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> David of MD Aug 21, 2009 00:26:43 AM
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> I am concerned that there is a growing amount of evidence that Megrahi's
> claims that he was railroaded in this trial are true and that there is
> (was) a significant chance that he could win his next appeal. I also know
> that Scottish prisons are hell holes and the Scots do NOT have a
> reputation for being soft on any criminals, but there are a growing number
> of Brits who are highly sceptical of the legal quality of this trial,most
> importantly some of the victims families.
>
> What I fear is happening is that this is not really a compassion issue but
> is a back door manouver and trade-off by the British government, to avoid
> the growing possibility that Megrahi may win his next appeal. The Libyans
> have stated officially that if Megrahi is found not guilty on appeal, they
> would consider taking legal steps to recover the $2bn reparation paid to
> victims families. In general terrorists don't offer to recompense their
> victims financially, so it remains to be determined why they really paid
> this reparation!!! Another legal fight like this would be disastrous and
> an unbearable additional suffering to the families.
>
> I am also staggered that the authorities eliminated Iran as a suspect in
> this case. After 1979, Iran had made public statements that they would
> engage in terrorist attacks against the West, in particular the US. The
> Iranians were radical Islamic Fundamentalists, the Libyans were not. The
> US had supported Iraq in the Iraq/Iran war and the US had blocked the UN
> security council from condemning Iraq for using weapons of mass
> destruction against the Kurds ( which Bush later used as a justification
> for invading Iraq.) And 6 months later the US shot down an Iranian
> commercial Airbus jet slaughtering all 290 innocent people on board. This
> is a much greater provocation and probable cause than the relatively
> smaller skirmishes that were going on between Libya and the US.
>
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