The website of the International Herald Tribune reports that the life sentence for terrorist offences being served in Sweden by Abu Talb, who was the subject of a special defence of incrimination lodged by the accused at the Lockerbie trial (ie a claim that he, not the accused, was the true perpetrator) has been reduced to one of thirty years. The article begins:
"A Swedish court ruled Wednesday that an Egyptian-born Palestinian found guilty of terror attacks against U.S. and Jewish targets in the 1980s can have his life sentence turned into a 30-year prison term.
"The decision means Mohammed Abu Talb could be released in two years because he started serving his term in 1990 and prisoners in Sweden are normally released after having served two-thirds of their sentences.
"Abu Talb was sentenced to life in prison for a Synagogue bombing and an attack against a U.S. airline office in Denmark that killed one person and left several injured in 1985.
"He was also found guilty of involvement in the bombing of an Israeli airline office in the Netherlands.
"Abu Talb, who came to Sweden in 1983, was an early suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. But prosecutors abandoned the theory that Palestinians were responsible and turned their attention to Libya.
"He later testified in the trial in that case."
The full story can be read here.
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