Abdullah al-Senussi extradition unites Lockerbie relatives

[This is the headline over a report published this evening on the website of The Guardian.  It reads in part:]

The extradition to Libya of Muammar Gaddafi's spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi brought a rare moment of unity among Lockerbie relatives and campaigners normally deeply split on Libya's role in the bombing.

They agreed that Scottish police and prosecutors should make strenuous efforts to question Senussi about his links to or knowledge of the atrocity, which killed 270 people in December 1988. But they disagreed about why.

Susan Cohen, whose daughter Theodora, 20, was one of 35 Syracuse University students killed in the bombing, said it would be "excellent" if Scottish investigators succeeded in meeting Senussi. "I would thoroughly urge them to do so," she said.

In particular, Cohen said, Senussi could confirm the guilt of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the sole person convicted of the bombing, who died of cancer this summer. He could also implicate senior figures in the Gaddafi regime.

She said claims by Megrahi's supporters and other Lockerbie relatives that he was innocent and that the atrocity was committed by another state such as Syria or Iran were "goofball theories" without any evidence.

"My fear is that everybody would have put Lockerbie on the backburner and not pursue the case," she said. "I don't suspect there's some vast conspiracy and they're afraid of what might come out, but Gaddafi is dead and Megrahi is dead – it's easier to deal with the present and easier things, so they don't really want to do this.

"It's vital to interview Senussi. I would hope they will be interviewing others. I think it's extremely important that we know. We should know as much as we can and there may be other people [in Libya] who can be indicted – and if that is the case, we need to do that."

However, Jim Swire, a senior figure among the British bereaved families, is adamant that Megrahi was innocent. A leading member of the Justice for Megrahi campaign, which is discussing reopening Megrahi's appeal against his conviction with his surviving sons, Swire said there had been theories for some years linking Senussi to Lockerbie.

One allegation was that Senussi and Moussa Koussa, the Libyan former foreign minister, who fled Tripoli with the help of western agencies before Gaddafi's death, had taken control of several bombs built by a Palestinian terrorist group, PFLP-GC, that were missed in raids by German police.

Moussa Koussa agreed to be interviewed by Dumfries and Galloway police and Crown Office prosecutors early last year, but is thought to have offered very little new information about Lockerbie or Megrahi. Swire said he was sceptical about the theory, but added: "It's quite possible that Libya played a part in Lockerbie. It's very clear that Megrahi didn't.

"The two people from Gaddafi's regime who seem to be in the frame are Senussi and Moussa Koussa. Moussa Koussa clearly had a relationship with western intelligence because he was allowed to fly to Britain and then the Middle East, where he now lives the life of Reilly. [The] suspicion is that Senussi and Moussa Koussa may have set up the use of those devices for Lockerbie."

John Ashton, author of Megrahi's authorised biography, [Megrahi:] You are my Jury, said other sources believed Senussi was simply a security "enforcer" rather than a spymaster of Moussa Koussa's rank. "Megrahi never hid the fact that he was related to Senussi," Ashton said. "Although he never discussed Sennusi's alleged role in the bombing, he was convinced that Libya – and therefore Sennusi – was not responsible for it.

"Western intelligence sources and the US state department always claimed that Senussi was Megrahi's boss. If that's the case then the Scottish police should be moving heaven and earth to get to him. However, I take those claims with a huge pinch of salt, as the evidence against Megrahi is highly flawed. If the police do get to Senussi, they may well be very disappointed."

Gaddafi intelligence chief Senoussi returned to Libya

[The following are excerpts from a report just published by The Associated Press news agency:]

Mauritania has extradited to Libya Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief, according to a government statement read on national radio on Wednesday.

The statement says that Libya's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, was sent back to Libya on Wednesday morning, giving no further details. (...)

Libya, the International Criminal Court as well as France had all asked to try the former intelligence chief, who is accused of having helped orchestrate some of Gadhafi's worst crimes, including the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 (...)

Oriane Maillet, a spokeswoman for the ICC in The Hague, said the court has received no information yet from Libyan authorities on the transfer of al-Senoussi, but stressed that an international arrest warrant has been issued for him based on ICC charges.

[US] House [of Representatives] Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who led a delegation to the region, told reporters in Tripoli earlier this year that the US had a "particular interest (in seeing him arrested) because of his role with the Lockerbie bombing." (...)

France also quickly lobbied to get custody of al-Senoussi. He was one of six Libyans convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison in France for the 1989 bombing of a passenger jet over Niger that killed all 170 people on board, including 54 French people.

SCCRC Megrahi report

Now that there is a paywall on the heraldscotland website, it may be useful to point out that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission's Statement of Reasons in the Megrahi case is also available in full here on Scribd. 

An indelible stain on the reputation of Scotland and its justice system

[What follows is the text of a press release from The Nugget Theatre Company:]

One of the reasons Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed the Lockerbie Bomber in 2009 was to prevent Scots being murdered in terrorist reprisals.

That’s the theory in a new play about Lockerbie that’s being staged this weekend in Stirling.

“This was a brave and far-sighted decision and in my view Mr MacAskill deserves praise and thanks for it,” said Alan Clark, the author and director of The Lockerbie Bomber. I have no doubt his action prevented reprisals and a potential loss of life to innocent Scots. While Mr Al Megrahi was freed 'on compassionate grounds', I actually believe it was concern for his fellow Scots that drove that controversial decision.

“I believe he knew that if Megrahi, suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer, were allowed to die an 'innocent' man in a Scottish prison, he would be seen as a martyr by fanatics and terrorist reprisals would inevitably follow throughout Scotland. We’d already had a foretaste of that with the attempted bombing at Glasgow Airport in 2007.

“Mr MacAskill, and perhaps more importantly his Crown Office, police and civil service advisers, must also have known that, following the determination by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, a new appeal by Megrahi would be both successful and devastating. It would shine an unwelcome light into some murky corners of the Scottish criminal justice system – evidence fabricated, evidence withheld, witnesses paid millions for their testimony. So the play makes the pretty obvious point that there was more than compassion at work here: to avoid the ridicule of the Scottish legal system in the eyes of the world and prevent any bloodshed inScotland, we had to get him out of Greenock Prison and back to Libya fast. In the play, the question is asked: was freeing Megrahi 'on compassionate grounds' in fact a fig leaf to keep Scots safe and protect our justice system?”

The play is set in the present day and looks at the bombing from three different perspectives – the victims’ families, journalists investigating the case, and the UK and US security services engaged in covering up what happened. The drama, which explores this veil of secrecy, links Grangemouth, Greenock, Glasgow and Guantanamo Bay in the gritty and fast-moving 75-minute piece.

“Almost twenty-four years on, Lockerbie still looms large over Scotland and there are still unanswered questions over what happened that night and who is ultimately responsible for two hundred and seventy deaths. As one of the characters in the play says: ‘Sooner or later, to protect itself, the Scottish Government will have to cast the Crown Office adrift and abandon the fiction that Megrahi’s conviction is safe.’"

Iain McKie, a member of the Justice for Megrahi committee, has seen the drama. He said: “This is a challenging and thought-provoking play that brings the human suffering and political chicanery behind the tragedy of Lockerbie to vivid and dramatic life. It should be required viewing for every Scot as a reminder of a disaster that has become an indelible stain on the reputation of Scotland and its justice system."

The Lockerbie Bomber, performed by The Nugget Theatre Company, is on at The MacRobert Playhouse Theatre, University of Stirling, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September at 7.00pm and 9.00pm both nights. Tickets, £10 and £9 (concessions), from the MacRobert Box Office on 01786 466666 or at www.macrobert.org

[An article in the Stirling Observer about this play can be read here. A review of an earlier performance of the play can be read here.]

A stitch-up and a miscarriage of justice

[What follows is an excerpt from the transcript of an interview about the Julian Assange situation with former British ambassador and Dundee University Rector Craig Murray broadcast on 31 August on the Straight Talk programme of Occupy News Network:]

The chances of getting to Ecuador from the embassy in the middle of London without the agreement of the British authorities are limited. You can, you know, we can all think of sort of physical escape scenarios, but they’re not easy. There’s going to have to be a diplomatic solution. My guess would be that it will take a long while in coming, I think six months from now. There’s not going to be much public awareness that anything has changed, although talks will have been going on behind the scenes.

The obvious solution is for the Swedes to agree that they won’t extradite him to the United States, but the Swedes absolutely refuse to do that, and the United States refuses to say that it won’t apply for extradition, because frankly there’s no doubt whatsoever that the United States has convened a grand jury to look at prosecuting Assange and Wikileaks and has every intention of extraditing him to the United States. So all of that is very, very difficult.

You can see a kind of Lockerbie solution. The alleged Lockerbie bomber, Mr. Megrahi, was tried in the Hague under Scottish law by Scottish judges because they didn’t want to send him to Scotland and they agreed to hold the trial on mutual [RB: presumably “neutral” is what was said] premises, and the Dutch agreed that a court in the Hague [RB: actually Zeist] could actually be in effect under Scottish law for the period of the trial. It’s not the happiest precedent, because I think the trial was itself a stitch-up and a miscarriage of justice, but it does set a precedent for somebody being tried by another state on somebody else’s territory, so there is a precedent in international law if people were looking for that.

[Quotation of Craig Murray must not be taken to imply agreement on my part with his views on the Assange case.]

Lockerbie: Case Closed – Injustice Served

This is the headline over a review of the Aljazeera documentary Lockerbie: Case Closed on the Top Documentary Stream website. The documentary can be viewed online on the same web page.  Here are a few sentences from the review:

“The documentary is focused around a report issued by the SCCRC relating to the inquiry of the Lockerbie bombing. As the documentary proves from both eye witness accounts, from officially written police statements and from scientific evidence, it becomes quite evident that Al-Megrahi was not the perpetrator in the Lockerbie case. The documentary explains how Tony Gauci changed his statements almost 3 times over the course of the investigation, it also shows how the initial artistic impression of the perpetrator of the Lockerbie disaster bore absolutely no resemblance to Al-Megrahi and the documentary also shows how scientifically it is proven that the alloy used to create the circuitry of the timer used in the terrorist attack was different from the one’s supplied to Libyan Intelligence and the one thought to have been used by Al-Megrahi in the attack.

“The documentary almost completely seals the case and proves that Al-Megrahi was innocent; it also however brings to light that injustice was indeed carried out but the most devastating part is that even when it was discovered it was kept hidden from the general public.”

Serendipity and "The Lockerbie Bomber"

Alan Clark, who wrote and directs the new play The Lockerbie Bomber, on at Stirling’s MacRobert Playhouse Theatre September 8 and 9, explains how three strange coincidences helped bring the drama to the stage.

Serendipity is defined as “happy or fortunate discoveries by accident”. “Happy” is not a word you would ever associate with the worst air disaster in British history involving Pan Am Flight 103 on a dark December night in 1988. But nonetheless three serendipitous events, occurring in quick succession, made me believe this play was meant to happen and gave me confidence to press on.

First, the play is set in a corner of the Lockerbie crash site. So for authenticity we needed real aircraft parts to form the debris. I do some work for Prestwick Airport and I knew they had an old 747 jumbo jet on the airfield which they use for fire and rescue training. I asked the Chief Executive if I could have some bits and pieces from inside the plane, and he kindly agreed. So we removed some seats, tray tables, cushions, carpets, oxygen masks and other stuff.

There are now no external markings on the quietly rusting 747 but there was a Boeing reference number above the door. A Google search showed that it was the sixty-seventh 747 to be manufactured in Seattle and it entered service in 1970 with United Airlines. So what? Well, the so what is that in 1985 it moved from United to Pan Am and remained there for six years. In other words, it was a sister aircraft to the one that crashed at Lockerbie in 1988 and, upon closer inspection, the seats and other things we now have onstage are genuine Pan Am items. An astonishing coincidence.

Another macabre footnote is that while with Pan Am, it was named “Clipper Tradewind” in honour of an earlier Pan Am aircraft…which crashed in 1963, killing all passengers on board, just like Lockerbie, and also on a dark December night, just like Lockerbie. Scary.

Second, I like to use music where possible to add atmosphere and mood. In the play, the actress playing a bereaved mother talks to the audience as she imagines her ten-year-old son, a passenger on the plane, falling through the dark night sky after the explosion. She grieves for him, wishing she had been there for him to save and protect him. I thought that a piece of appropriate music would work well under her monologue but I was stuck for the right piece.

I was doing the weekly shop in Asda with my wife and noticed they were selling Kate Bush’s new album, “50 Words for Snow”. I’m not even a fan of hers but on a whim I bought it. Track 1 starts with her voice but is replaced by a young boy who starts speaking. The words absolutely rooted me to the spot. He says:

Now I am falling.
I want you to catch me.
Look up and you’ll see me.
You know you can hear me.

It turns out the voice is that of her young son. I just had to use it and it appears towards the end of the play. Again, scary.

And lastly, another serendipitous musical thing. I wanted a piece of music to run under the final scene and had some ideas but they weren’t quite right. I rarely listen to Radio 3, BBC’s classical music station, but one day in the car I tuned in…and came in halfway through a melancholic piece that was absolutely perfect for what I needed. It was Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and I subsequently found it was voted “the saddest classical work ever”. When we do the play, and it runs under the last speech, it makes the hairs go up on the back of my neck every time.

So three eerie, fortuitous events that came to us from nowhere and helped shape this play. Just extraordinary.

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killed 270 people and was the worst terrorist atrocity in the UK. The play is set in the present day and looks at the bombing from three different perspectives – the victims’ families, journalists investigating the case, and the UK and US security services engaged in covering up what happened. The drama, which explores this veil of secrecy, links Grangemouth, Greenock, Glasgow and Guantanamo Bay in the gritty and fast-moving 75-minute piece.

Almost twenty-four years on, Lockerbie still looms large over Scotland and there arestill unanswered questions over what happened that night and who is ultimately responsible for two hundred and seventy deaths. As one of the characters says: "Sooner or later, to protect itself, the Scottish Government will have to cast the Crown Office adrift and abandon the fiction that Megrahi’s conviction is safe."

The Lockerbie Bomber, performed by The Nugget Theatre Company, is on at The MacRobert Playhouse Theatre, University of Stirling, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September at 7.00pm and 9.00pm both nights. The cast is Carol Clark, Rhona Law, Jim Allan, Brian Paterson, Craig Murray and Alan Clark. Tickets, £10 and £9 (concessions), from the MacRobert Box Office on 01786 466666 or at www.macrobert.org

Assurances sought on Lockerbie investigation

[This is the heading over an item published today on the website of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.  It reads as follows:]

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP has asked Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC for assurances that the “book has not been closed” into the Lockerbie bombing after it emerged that Scottish police officers have yet to visit Libya. A re-investigation announced in October 2011 saw the Lord Advocate travel on a mission to Libya in April this year to discuss the investigation with the Libyan National Government.

In a letter to the Lord Advocate, Mr Rennie said that the relatives of those in the Lockerbie bombing and the Scottish public need assurances that the live investigation is still being fully resourced and supported in its efforts to uncover any new lines of inquiry which will bring to justice others involved in the bombing.

Commenting on the letter, Mr Rennie said:

“I have written to the Lord Advocate to seek assurances that the book has not been closed on the renewed Lockerbie bombing criminal investigation. Earlier this year the First Minister rejected calls for an independent inquiry into the Lockerbie prosecution, which could have shone a light on the extent of Megrahi’s involvement or even pointed towards others being involved.

“In denying that independent inquiry the opportunity to get the answers so deserved by relatives of the Lockerbie bombing was left to the criminal investigation. It’s therefore hugely disappointing that Scottish police officers have yet to visit Libya to undertake their investigation.

“With the passing of each month it becomes less and less likely that any existing evidence can be found. The Crown’s position that Megrahi did not act alone is all very well, but it brings neither justice nor answers to those who need it most.

“It is essential that the Crown Office does all it can to pursue new lines of enquiry. The Lord Advocate must provide assurances that the book has not been closed on the Lockerbie bombing investigation.”

[Mr Rennie’s earlier interventions on Lockerbie, including his support for an independent inquiry into the prosecution and conviction of Abdelbaset Megrahi, can be accessed by typing “Willie Rennie” into this blog’s search facility.

The Press Association news agency's report on Willie Rennie's letter to the Lord Advocate, which has been run on a number of news media websites, can be read here. The best treatment of the story, in that it goes beyond the news agency report, is in The Huffington Post.]

"Bizarre and evidence-free" claim Libya behind Lockerbie

[The following paragraph is taken from an article headed Syria and Bahrain – what’s the difference? published yesterday on Peter Hitchens’s blog on the Mail Online website:]

Syria stayed out of the West’s bad books even after it was pretty clear that Syrian-sponsored terrorists had been involved in the Lockerbie mass murder. That line of inquiry was dropped because Syria was ‘helpful’ to the West during the first war against Saddam Hussein. It is this but of politics that is the origin of the bizarre and evidence-free subsequent claim that Gadaffi’s Libya was behind that bomb. Amazing what people will believe and continue to believe, when it suits them.

[Earlier Lockerbie-related comments from Peter Hitchens can be read here and here.]

Officers yet to visit Libya in fresh Lockerbie inquiry

[This is the headline over a report by Lucy Adams in today’s edition of The Herald.  It reads as follows:]

No Scottish police officers have visited Libya as part of the reinvestigation into the Lockerbie bombing more than a year after the Gaddafi regime was toppled, it was revealed.

A fresh inquiry into the bombing was announced last October.

Much has been made of the "live" investigation and the Crown Office's plans to unearth new documents and evidence following the collapse of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

However, the high-profile plans to re-investigate the Lockerbie bombing now appear to have stalled with the revelation that the Metropolitan Police have travelled to Tripoli to investigate the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher but no visas for Scottish officers have been issued.

In May, The Herald revealed that Frank Mulholland, the Lord Advocate, had been on a secret mission to Libya to pave the way for further investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

He travelled to Tripoli with FBI director Robert Mueller to meet Libyan Prime Minister Abdurahim el-Keib and other officials, including the justice minister Ali Hamiada Ashour.

It was thought the Libyan Transitional Government had agreed that UK and Scottish police could begin work in the country.

But while officers from the Met travelled to Libya in July to progress the investigation into the policewoman's murder, no Scottish officer has been granted access.

Dumfries and Galloway Police, the lead force on Lockerbie, said it continued to assist the Crown and US authorities.

Detective Superintendent Mickey Dalgleish, said: "The investigation into the involvement of others with Megrahi in the Lockerbie bombing remains open and Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary continues to work with Crown Office and US authorities to pursue available lines of enquiry."

Assurances have been given to the new Libyan Prime Minister by the Crown Office about the terms of the fresh Lockerbie investigation following initial claims that no treaty existed for UK police to visit Libya.

A number of the relatives of the Lockerbie bombing have expressed concerns about the validity of information to be found in Libya following the collapse of the old regime.

Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter died in the bombing which killed 270 people, said: "Their plan to gather more evidence in Libya to pin on Megrahi is based on shifting sands.

"Megrahi was not guilty, but that does not mean there was involvement by the higher echelons in the Libyan regime."

Lockerbie victim

[This is the headline over a letter from Neil Sinclair published in The Scotsman on Thursday, 16 August, which has just come to my attention.  It reads as follows:]

It will soon be the third anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

At the time of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi’s release the pious justice secretary Kenny MacAskill spoke of how “Mr al-Megrahi now faces a sentence imposed by a higher power”.

However, on his return to Libya, Megrahi did not live for the predicted three months but for 33 months.

So this “higher power” 
decided to defer the death 
sentence on Megrahi, perhaps 
as a message to the Scottish 
Government to open an inquiry into the whole Megrahi affair, from his “sole” responsibility for the Lockerbie bomb to his early release.

There were 271 victims of the Lockerbie bomb: 270 people and then Scottish justice itself. 

[An interesting post on the forgetmenot525 blog on the same subject can be read here.]

Lockerbie bomber’s cancer ‘a gift from God’ for Scottish government

[This is the headline over a long report on the Megrahi keynote session at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. It reads in part:]

The cancer that killed Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted for the Lockerbie bombing, was a “gift from God” to establishments with something to hide, according to the Libyan’s biographer.

John Ashton made the claim last Saturday at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which also featured other high-profile critics of the controversial case.

Megrahi died from prostate cancer in May in Libya after being released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds.

Ashton said this week: “Megrahi’s cancer was a gift from God for everybody involved that had something to hide. It allowed his release, it allowed the final stages of the rapprochement between the UK and Libya, and it allowed the Scottish government to allow him out of prison on a legal basis that wasn’t one laid down by the hated government in Westminster.”

The course of events was a “political fix”, he told the audience at the venue in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.

“It was a tragedy for Megrahi but I think everybody else was punching the air.”

He added: “The judges got it wrong, for whatever reason, and the Crown Office withheld evidence.

“I’m sure they did so in good faith but their behaviour was utterly incompetent and shameful.”

Hans Köchler, the UN observer at the trial in the Netherlands, told the audience he could not understand why Megrahi was found guilty but his alleged co-conspirator was not.

Claiming that the trial was politically motivated, Köchler said: “Eight senior Scottish judges got it wrong, but the question is why? It is not because of a lack of intellectual skills.”

The cover of the biography, Megrahi: You are my Jury, carries a quote from Megrahi saying: “I know that I’m innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain’s worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release. Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury.”

Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, was also present at the event. Swire demonstrated his anger and frustration surrounding the case, speaking of his meeting earlier this year with the Lord Advocate who claimed did not know why evidence was withheld by the Crown Office in the original trial, specifically the evidence surrounding a break-in at Heathrow airport around the time Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London.

Swire believes that a bomb was taken on board in London.

“During the whole trial we did not know that Heathrow airport had been broken into 16 hours before Lockerbie happened, it seemed to me very likely that was the technology that had been used,” he said. “The whole concept that the thing came from Malta via Megrahi’s luggage or anyone else’s seemed, to me, far-fetched.” (...)

“What I say is, first and foremost, that the judges got it wrong, for whatever reason, and the Crown Office withheld evidence,” Ashton went on to say.

The great Linklater-Raeburn Lockerbie debate

Today's BBC Radio Scotland Good Morning Scotland programme featuring the "crazy conspiracy" debate between The Times's Magnus Linklater and The Firm's Steven Raeburn is now available on the BBC iPlayer. The segment starts 1 hour,   22 minutes, 50 seconds into the podcast. 

Lockerbie unlikely to be subject of first Scottish double-jeopardy retrial

[What follows is the text of a report in today’s edition of The Scotsman:]

Prosecutors have revealed that they plan to launch a double-jeopardy case within the coming months.

However, Anthony McGeehan, procurator fiscal in Glasgow, would not be drawn on when the application might be brought, nor who it might aim to convict.

The murders of Surjit Singh Chhokar, Amanda Duffy, and teenagers Helen Scott and Chistine Eadie, as well as the Lockerbie bombing, which claimed the lives of 270 people, are all being investigated to see whether a new trial can be brought.

The Scottish Government’s Double Jeopardy Act 2011 allows prosecutors to try people twice if certain new evidence comes to light.

However, Mr McGeehan would not be drawn on which of the cases might be brought first.

“But I would not expect it to be the last one,” he said.

[As I wrote on this blog on 27 November 2011:]

I would be astounded if prosecutors sought to re-indict Lamin Fhimah.  The Crown Office is just as aware as the rest of us are that the astonishing thing about the Zeist trial was not the acquittal of Fhimah but the conviction of Abdelbaset Megrahi.  Any "new evidence" that has emerged since 2001 points clearly towards the innocence of the accused Libyans rather than their guilt, as the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission amongst others has pointed out.

Linklater and Raeburn on tomorrow's Good Morning Scotland

Magnus Linklater, Scotland editor of The Times and Steven Raeburn, editor of Scottish lawyers' magazine The Firm will be debating their divergent views on the Lockerbie case tomorrow (Saturday) on the BBC Radio Scotland programme Good Morning Scotland, which starts at 08.00. This segment of the programme is expected to start shortly after 09.00.  Mr Linklater's previously-expressed views can be read here; and Mr Raeburn's here.