A commentary on the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am 103 disaster.
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
Saturday 27 October 2007
Juval Aviv
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/secret-agent-sc.html
For a somewhat different view of Aviv, see http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/lockerbie/resources/story_aviv.html
Friday 26 October 2007
Wikipedia and Lockerbie
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/russmag.html
Is Washington With Us?
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/28863.html
Monday 22 October 2007
Convicted Bomber of Pan Am Flight 103 May Have Been Wrongly Sentenced
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/46864