Lockerbie Doubts

This blog has long campaigned against the miscarriage of justice over the Lockerbie bombing that led to the conviction of Libyan Mohmed al-Megrahi. Well, OK, I once wrote a post about it. Now the whole thing's resurfaced:

Evidence against the Lockerbie bomber was fabricated and manipulated on both sides of the Atlantic, according to leaked defence documents which appear to undermine the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.

Investigators for Megrahi claim to have compelling new evidence of widespread tampering with evidence, missing or overlooked statements, and a concerted attempt to lead investigators away from the original Iranian-backed suspects and towards Libya.

Hundreds of new documents and photographs examined by Scotland on Sunday appear to show many aspects of the Lockerbie prosecution were at best incompetent and at worst amounted to an attempt to pervert the course of justice.

By an extraordinary coincidence the affair of the Benghazi six, sentenced to death for supposedly infecting about 400 children with HIV, is now reaching its denouement:

Libya's Supreme Court says it will rule on 11 July on the final appeal of six foreign medical workers condemned for infecting 438 children with HIV.

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor say they are innocent of giving tainted blood to the children.

The court is expected to uphold their death sentences but may leave a final decision to the High Judicial Council.

The sentences may be commuted in exchange for a compensation package for the children's families.

Bulgaria has consistently refused any compensation package, claiming that to agree to such a deal would be to admit guilt.

Maybe other deals are possible though.

Comments

[IanCroydon]

I'd think again before aligning yourself with the Lockerbie "truthers", you only need to take a quick check at the comments on that Scotsman story and see who you are aligning with.

Paul Foot, the acclaimed investigative journalist; but never mentioned is his obvious political bias, from being a stalwart SWP supporter to planting the seeds of what is now the RESPECT coalition, not to mention his associations with Robert Maxwell.

You can add to Lockerbie and anti-MMR, the Hanratty case, which even after an exhumation and positive DNA test, Foot was still convinced he was innocent.

I've been reading his crap in the back of Private Eye for decades, it is sheer unadulterated political posturing and is better suited in the pages of Socialist Worker, it is not the investigative journalism he was praised for in the past, he is in the same school as Fisk, Pilger, et al, who, whilst fingering the government for leaving out vital information, use precisely that to embellish their own reporting, and are just as guilty for their own hidden political agendas.

Since Foot's death, the campaigning in Private Eye has been taken up by his little team of Respect'ers, and hence the usual bi-weekly diatribe of anti-PPP, anti-police, anti-Americanism, anti-Tory, etc.