Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing: Fresh appeal launched to clear Megrahi
By Steve James
18 March 2020 Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing: Fresh appeal launched to clear Megrahi
"Relatives and supporters of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi have won the right to posthumously appeal his 2001 conviction for murder following a decision by the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC).
Megrahi was convicted of planting the suitcase bomb that in 1988 destroyed the “Maid of the Seas” Pan Am Boeing 747, PA103, killing 259 crew and passengers along with 11 residents of Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Lockerbie attack came only six months after an Iranair Airbus, IR655, was shot down in an unprovoked act of mass murder, by the US missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes. In that instance 290 passengers and crew were killed. At the time, most commentary and media coverage assumed that the Lockerbie atrocity was an act of revenge..."
18 March 2020 Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing: Fresh appeal launched to clear Megrahi
"Relatives and supporters of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi have won the right to posthumously appeal his 2001 conviction for murder following a decision by the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC).
Megrahi was convicted of planting the suitcase bomb that in 1988 destroyed the “Maid of the Seas” Pan Am Boeing 747, PA103, killing 259 crew and passengers along with 11 residents of Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Lockerbie attack came only six months after an Iranair Airbus, IR655, was shot down in an unprovoked act of mass murder, by the US missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes. In that instance 290 passengers and crew were killed. At the time, most commentary and media coverage assumed that the Lockerbie atrocity was an act of revenge..."