A commentary on the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am 103 disaster.
Friday 23 November 2007
Some blogs we have been reading
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2007/11/some-blogs-we-have-been-reading.html
Thursday 22 November 2007
The town, nineteen years on
After the YSP session, I took the opportunity to visit Lockerbie and to spend the night there -- the first time I had been back in my home town for a few years. The town seems to be thriving and the population expanding, with lots of new residential building in evidence. The disaster of 21 December 1988 has certainly not been forgotten, but it does not occupy the foreground of people's lives: the people of the town have resolutely got on with the business of living. This was entirely to be expected: one of my clearest recollections of the days and weeks following the tragedy was the descent upon the town of a team of "trauma counsellors" to provide support and assistance to such of the townsfolk as felt the need for it. The counsellors sat in glorious isolation. A close-knit Lowland Scottish country town like Lockerbie is not fertile ground for the counselling industry.
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Libya Comes in From the Cold
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2991.cfm
Bollier visit
Monday 19 November 2007
This week
At the procedural hearing on 11 October, the Crown was given six weeks to lodge written answers to the defence's petition for disclosure by the Crown of a document emanating from a foreign government (not the USA) relating to timers, the non-disclosure of which to the defence was included by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission among the six grounds upon which Megrahi's conviction might have constituted a miscarriage of justice. That six week period expires on Thursday, 22 November. If the document has not already been handed over to the defence (which the Crown indicated would happen if the foreign country agreed to its release) the Crown's written answers will require to be lodged on or before that date. Thereafter, a further procedural hearing will need to be fixed for the Court to hear the submissions of the parties and decide whether to order the Crown to hand the document over.
Thursday 15 November 2007
The Clinton-Bush air disaster cover-up plan
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58693
Wednesday 14 November 2007
An anniversary
Monday 12 November 2007
Robbie the Pict and Hans Koechler
(1) From: I.P.O.
To: RtP
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:14 PM
P/RE/20727
Dear Robbie!
I have received your message concerning the remains of the aircraft.
I agree with you that all forensic evidence, including the aircraft remains, has to be stored in a safe place where it can be assured that it will not be tampered with.
From here in
With best regards,
Hans Koechler
(2) Greetings Gentlemen,
With best regards,
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Lockerbie: "Tampered evidence"
http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/4418427/
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Son of Qaddhafi: Strange Bedfellow?
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1385216
When are the Americans going to wake up and smell the coffee?
Here is another article (in French) from a Saif admirer:
http://www.temoust.org/spip.php?article3820
Friday 2 November 2007
Paul Gauci
This is from Malta Today at
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/midweek/2007/10/31/n1.html
I have not been able to find the story on The Scotsman news website, but that is doubtless due to my own incompetence.
[A kind reader informs me that the reference is probably to the story in Scotland on Sunday http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=1641412007
which was mentioned on this blog on 14 October.]
Thursday 1 November 2007
A prison visit
I will not be disclosing the content of my discussions with Mr Megrahi, but I can say that he now speaks English with a fine Scottish accent (his first words to me were "Thank you for visiting me on such a dreich day") and that his taste in mints is impeccable.
["dreich" in relation to weather means dreary, cheerless, bleak. See http://www.dsl.ac.uk/]
Tuesday 30 October 2007
Lockerbie - Time for the Truth
This is an excerpt from an article by Julian Worker on suite101.com subtitled "Revenge was the reason but the wrong country was blamed". See
http://middleeasternaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/lockerbie_time_for_the_truth
Monday 29 October 2007
US confidence
"We are looking very interestedly at what is happening with the appeal," she said.
"Of course we have full faith and confidence in the Scottish judicial system to resolve the remaining questions."
Seehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7067085.stm
19 years on and Lockerbie plane debris is rotting away in a scrapyard
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490284&in_page_id=1770
An assiduous blogger, however, got there two months before the Daily Mail:
http://thesplund.blogspot.com/2007/08/graveyard-of-flight-103.html
The story has now been picked up by various organs of the press, including the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302007/news/worldnews/lockerbie_junk_pile.htm