Lockerbie bomber disputes conviction with new dossier

Source: Guardian UK

Megrahi's 298-page rejoinder attempts to show judges were wrong to dismiss doubts over evidence

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has released a dossier of legal papers which he claims are proof he was wrongly convicted of the worst terrorist attack on British soil.

The documents, published online today by Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, show that serious doubts about the reliability of the key witness at his trial were raised independently by Scotland's official body, which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice.

The dossier demonstrates that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) sent Megrahi's case back to the court of appeal in 2007, after deciding that the judges who convicted him had made a series of errors about the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci – the only witness to link the Libyan to the alleged plot.

According to the commission, those mistakes were significant enough to raise substantial doubts about the safety of Megrahi's conviction of killing 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988.

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His documents also reveal detailed challenges to key aspects of the bomb plot as described by prosecutors. There was no proof that the suitcase was put on board a feeder flight at Luqa airport in Malta which went to Frankfurt airport on 21 December. There was also no evidence to prove that Megrahi had been involved in the plot, and the dossier claims that the judges had unfairly rejected defence evidence at the trial that pointed towards a different culprit: the Iranian-funded Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/18/lockerbie-bomber-megrahi-trial-dossier

Letting him go because he was dying and probably not guilty makes sense.

Many think that Lockerbie was retaliation for the U.s. shooting down the Iranian Airbus, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children; four months earlier.

That's the way they roll, eye for an eye. Iranians probably did it.

Strange world we live in.

Many people at the time speculated it may have been revenge for the Iran Air shoot-down.

Check out this theory!

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/11/vincennes-and-lockerbie-and-heroin.html

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The arms trade with Iran was sealed at a meeting between Cyrus Vance... and Dr. Hashemi, which resulted in the U.S. Air Force beginning an immediate airlift of arms to Iran, carried on even at the height of the hostage crisis the arms came from U.S. Army stockpiles in Germany and some were even flown directly from the United States with refueling stops at the Azores.

With the advent of Khomeini... opium production skyrocketed.

By 1984 Iran’s opium production exceeded 650 metric tons of opium per annum.... Iran presently rivals the Golden Triangle in the volume of opium produced.

So, perhaps Iran was no fan of Major Charles McKee.

and have no doubts about his guilt.

http://www.congresscheck.com/2009/08/15/lockerbie-links-to-franklin-dutroux-mossad-mckee/

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TIME magazine, 27 April 1992, tells us more about Major Charles McKee (Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? – TIME) According to Time Magazine, Charles McKee’s mother suspects that it was a government action that indirectly led to her only son’s death.

Beulah McKee is quoted as saying: “For three years, I’ve had a feeling that if Chuck hadn’t been on that plane, it wouldn’t have been bombed… I’ve never been satisfied at all by what the people in Washington told me.”

In Beirut, McKee was a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

An investigation by Time disclosed that: According to “an FBI field report from Germany”, the bomb probably went onto the plane in Frankfurt, not in Malta. The flight may have been targeted “because on board was an intelligence team led by Charles McKee.”

because the court doesn't seem to have it.

http://www.megrahimystory.net/

edit: Hat tip BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8264119.stm