Posted on 02/29/2012 8:33:53 AM PST by combat_boots
Was Abdel Baset al-Megrahi wrongly convicted of being responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing?
Wednesday, December 21, 1988 was the longest night of the year, the night of the winter solstice. At 6.30pm that evening Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London Heathrow airport en route to JFK New York. On board Clipper Maid of the Skies, as it was called, were 16 crew members and 243 passengers, many of whom were carrying Christmas gifts in their luggage for family and friends.
But also in the baggage hold was a brown Samsonite suitcase, packed with new clothes and a Toshiba radio cassette player. Investigators later determined that hidden in the Toshiba were some 450 grammes of high explosive and an electronic timer. At 7.03pm as the plane was 31,000 feet over Scotland, the device exploded. A little under a minute later, 200,000 pounds of Kerosene ignited as the wings and part of the fuselage fell onto the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. All on board were killed, so too were 11 residents of Lockerbie - 270 innocent people murdered by a terrorist bomb.
Twenty-three years later, the scene changes to a small house on the outskirts of Tripoli in Libya, where the only man found guilty of causing those events lies helpless in bed. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, whom the world knows as the Lockerbie bomber, is dying of prostate cancer. For the first, last and only time he is about to give a television interview about his case - and he is to tell Al Jazeera that new evidence will prove that he was wrongly convicted.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
He’s an islamist. That’s good enough for me.
Case closed LOL.
The case was closed when Khadaffi was finally killed by his own people last year.
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi should not be alive or free.
2. There is no way that Iran would have just let this drop without some sort of payback.
3. But of course they would have wanted to cover their tracks.
4. If Libya was involved in the Lockerbie bombing, there has to have been an Iranian-Libyan connection and quid pro quo.
5. Since this has not come out, nor any other explanation of motivation, the case is not closed.
He’s not dead yet? Too bad!
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