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Lockerbie Whitewash?

By International Association of Penal Law

Scottish authorities recently freed convicted Pan Am 103 bomber, Abd al-Basit al-Megrahi, on ?compassionate grounds,? sparking protests in America and the UK.  Magrahi has been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, and is expected to live only a few more months.   But make no mistake; Megrahi?s release was part of a deal.  I?m not speaking of some sort of trade or business deal between the UK and Libya (as others have suggested), but rather the deal by which Megrahi had to drop his appeal and related discovery request, which had been winding their way through the Scottish Courts, in order to obtain his freedom. Megrahi?s current appeal was filed in 2007, after a four-year review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Committee concluded that ?a miscarriage of justice could have occurred? in the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).