tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post8124585877571276802..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Guilty of monumental hypocrisyRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-65494858486723586512015-02-10T19:48:21.785+00:002015-02-10T19:48:21.785+00:00If you could convince a court that Megrahi bought ...If you could convince a court that Megrahi bought the clothes, of course there would be a case against him. However, the clothes purchase went a while ago. Even losing the clothes purchase would be enough for an appeal to be upheld. Lose the clothes purchase and the "was at the airport when the bomb was introduced on to the plane" and there's nothing left.<br /><br />They can keep trying to assert it was some Libyan if they like, but it wasn't <i>that</i> Libyan.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-23663839577751872952015-02-09T22:47:40.261+00:002015-02-09T22:47:40.261+00:00"How many people, falsely accused of a crime,..."How many people, falsely accused of a crime, can actually provide positive proof of innocence?"<br />In a case that has reached court? Virtually nobody, or the case would not have gotten that far.<br />Bell's statement is indeed as odd as they come. Most interesting!<br /><br /><br />The thinner the case is the harder it is to falsify it. <br /><br />A politician was shot in Edinburgh and you were there at the time.<br />Nobody knows anything about what weapons you may own.<br />But during investigation it is found <br />- that you have a book about political assassinations <br />- you once said "The world would be better without this man" (<br />- somebody think they saw you very close to the crime scene<br />Include a couple of witnesses who say something in your disfavor.<br />That was always plenty for a conviction if the jury didn't like you in the first place.<br />If you were a Libyan muslim....<br /><br /><br />You think your suitcase-proof would exonerate Megrahi? <br />Not at all, but the theory would have been adjusted from the beginning. Marquise would have found a Libyan agent who traveled to London just at the right time, after Megrahi bought the clothes. It still fits perfectly. Bought the clothes...MEBO...the timer...<br /><br />There is hardly a theory that can not be thinly and selectively supported to an extent that will convince some judge who trust himself to select what is true and false.<br /><br />Megrahi's case is a perfect example.SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272238187226269250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-43602695587255190912015-02-09T14:31:30.491+00:002015-02-09T14:31:30.491+00:00You know, I think it was Ian Bell's sporadic a...You know, I think it was Ian Bell's sporadic articles over the years that kept my interest in Lockerbie simmering. He's always had a good grasp of the issues, and he's written some hard-hitting stuff. But what's this?<br /><br /><i>We don’t know, though, why Megrahi still fails to provide proof of his innocence.</i><br /><br />That's a bit of an ask, isn't it? How many people, falsely accused of a crime, can actually provide positive proof of innocence? What sort of proof is even being looked for here, and what would be accepted? According to the official theory of the crime, with the bomb starting from Luqa at a time when Megrahi was at that airport, I can't really imagine what "proof" might have been forthcoming.<br /><br />Sadly, Megrahi didn't realise that the thing to examine was the assertion that the bomb started from Luqa. Tackle that, and you find that it didn't. You find it at Heathrow, an hour before it could possibly have reached Heathrow if it had gone by the route proposed by the Crown. Megrahi was in Tripoli by then. Provably. That's what they call an alibi, in police circles.<br /><br />Megrahi could have provided absolute and complete proof of his innocence. He just didn't realise it.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206952819245786811noreply@blogger.com