Lockerbie evidence not disclosed

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Scottish police had information that might have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial, a BBC TV programme has learned.

The information could have affected the credibility of key evidence, but was not passed to the defence team.

Libyan national Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi is serving life for killing 270 people in the 1988 bombing.

A prosecution witness had seen a picture linking al-Megrahi to the bombing before he identified him.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7573244.stm

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For the avoidance of doubt this is LBN. Was headline in our BBC TV news this evening.

[vinylsolution]

1. For more info on this case....

... read "Trail of The Octopus" if you can find a copy.

The guy rotting in a Scottish jail did not plant the bomb on PanAm 103.

What's arabic for Oswald?

[clarence swinney]

2. Lockerbie Reagan Fiasco

It was Payback for Bombing of Libya.

Reagan told Thatcher we would hit only military targets.

First bomb hit civilian Palace.

Thather was furious and read Reagan riot act.

Libya was blamed for Disco Bombing in Berlin by Reagan.

Only evidence was phone call intercept with no details on conversation.

Later--Red Brigade in Germany was accused of the bombing.

[TomInTib]

3. And then there was that CIA/Turkey/heroin business.

Matching suitcases.

[Billy Burnett]

4. That thought popped up in my mind also.

:shrug:

[HamdenRice]

5. The South African angle -- entire apartheid delegation changed planes; Namibia administrator killed

Lockerbie was so bizarre because there were so many people on that plane that someone else wanted to kill, that it would be funny if it weren't tragic. It was like murder on the Orient Express.

South Africa was going to turn over Namibia to international, UN control. The entire South African delegation plus the UN appointed administrator to take over, Bernt Carlsson, a socialist politician from Scandanavia, were booked on the plane.

The South Africans suddenly changed planes avoiding being killed. Carlsson was killed in the crash. This postponed South Africa turning over Namibia to the UN for some time.

If they didn't do it, it sure seems like they knew it was going to happen.

[Zhade]

6. Verrrrrrrrrry interesting indeed.

KICK

[Judi Lynn]

7. Wow. Familiar sentiments, by now, unfortunately.

From the article:

Martin Cadman, whose son Bill died in the disaster, told the programme: "The truth has not come out. I think the investigation found what it was told to find".

Thanks for the information.

[AntiFascist]

8. Former Mossad agent claims Israeli security played a role...

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990811/1999081125.html