Monday, September 14, 2009

Was the 'Lockerbie Bomber' Framed?

By Morgan Strong
September 14, 2009

And what if Mr. Al-Megrahi is innocent Mr. President?

Read on.
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4 comments:

Patrick Haseldine said...

Libyan compensation for the Lockerbie bombing amounted to $2.7 billion (or $10 million to each of the families of the 270 victims).

Lawyers deducted about one third of the pay-out in contingency fees, so each family actually got some $6.66 million in compensation.

If Megrahi's second appeal against conviction had gone ahead, and had not been dropped so that he could be repatriated to Libya on compassionate grounds, the expectation was that Edinburgh's High Court of Justiciary would have overturned the conviction. The compensation money would then have had to be refunded. Can you imagine the US lawyers paying back their $900 million fees to Libya?

Mon Sep 14, 03:13:00 PM 2009
Buster Stronghart said...

The issue is not whether or not Megrahi is guilty. He was not freed because he might have been wrongfully convicted. He was released because of his illness.
He is convicted--and until the conviction is reversed he belongs in prison. He should die in prison as a convicted terrorist killer -- until it is proven that he is not guilty and the conviction is overturned.

Mon Sep 14, 05:25:00 PM 2009
Anonymous said...

This is interesting. Are we saying that Scottish Judicial system erred in punishing a man on flimsy grounds? A robust legal system would have "corrected" any aberration or miscarriage of justice. One wonders why no faith was reposed in Scottish Judicial system, instead of creating a (thin)smoke and mirror argument of compassion. Do we know why his second appeal did not go through??

Mon Sep 14, 06:31:00 PM 2009
Anonymous said...

This is interesting. Are we saying that Scottish Judicial system erred in punishing a man on flimsy grounds? A robust legal system would have "corrected" any aberration or miscarriage of justice. One wonders why no faith was reposed in Scottish Judicial system, instead of creating a (thin)smoke and mirror argument of compassion. Do we know why his second appeal did not go through??

Mon Sep 14, 06:54:00 PM 2009

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