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| Lockerbie conviction may be overturned | |
| 2007-06-26 | |
| A Libyan intelligence agent will learn this week if he can appeal against his conviction for blowing a Pan Am airliner out of the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988. An eight-member independent review commission will announce at noon (1100 GMT) on Thursday whether it will refer the case of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to the Scottish High Court as a possible miscarriage of justice. If Megrahi were to appeal and win, it would throw wide open the question of who ordered and carried out the bombing of Pan Am 103, which killed 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Victims' relatives, legal sources and diplomatic analysts said such an outcome could also prompt compensation demands from Libya, which has paid more than $2 billion to victims' families on the premise that Megrahi was guilty.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #3 BigEd, Why consume a perfectly good drone ? No need. Just step aboard the C130. When the correct location is reached, just ask him to step out. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-06-26 15:28 |
| #2 "miscarriage of justice"? I will tell you what.... Lets take this f**ker up on a drone to 30 thousand feet, then disable the drone so it pummets to earth with him still alive inside, and as he sees the approaching ground, he witll either be terrified or be contemplating virgins... Hopefully the former, then he can miss the carriage of his justice... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2007-06-26 15:02 |
| #1 As long as the prosecution didn't study under Lifong, all should be good...... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-06-26 14:51 |