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The Pan Am 103 Trial of Al-Megrahi, his conviction and second Appeal

Edinburgh, 27th April 2009 - Second Appeal begins. Al-Megrahi appears to have decided that a man's honour is more important than the narrow interests of the British government.  He has instructed his solicitors to proceed with his appeal. He will watch the courtroom activities via a CCTV link. The scope of the second appeal will be wide ranging. It will, however examine two key items of evidence.  Over the last nine years, since the original trial began in 2000, we have challenged the verdict based on these two issues: 1. The identification: In an extraordinary development in 2005, Maltese shopkeeper Toni Gauci was exposed as an unreliable witness by the man who in 1991 indicted Megrahi, former Scottish Lord Advocate Peter Fraser. 2. The Dr Hayes alleged bomb fragment: Strong suspicious attach to the fragment, its finding, its labelling, and the CIA  background under which it emerged in Calder Forest.  Was it planted to frame Libya for the crime?

TERRORISTS WHO BOMBED Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie on 21st   December 1988 murdered 270 passengers, crew, and townsfolk of a quiet Scottish town. Among the dead was Flora Swire, aged 24. Two Libyan agents - Abdel Bassett Al-Megrahi and Khalifah Fhimah - were targeted by the CIA and FBI as the guilty men. In a  trial held in Holland Fhimah was acquitted, Al-Megrahi was convicted. Much of the world believed that that was where the story ended. Yet only after twenty years campaigning by Jim Swire, Professor Bob Black, and Tam Dalyell and others is the sensational truth beginning to emerge.

Two personalities central to the investigation and trial were . . .

Vincent Cannistraro - CIA task force officer in the brutal Nicaraguan campaign at the heart of the mid-1980s Oliver North Iran-Contra scandal.  Anti-Libyan propaganda chief at the White House.  Helped arm the Afghanistan Mujahadeen anbd Osama Bin Laden. Head of the CIA Lockerbie team. Dr Thomas Hayes - Over the 1970s and early 1980s, progressed to Head of Department at the British Royal Armaments Research Establishment at Fort Halstead, in the United Kingdom. His testimony was central to the verdict. Yet false and incomplete evidence supplied by him and two colleagues in the 1976 alleged IRA Maguire family trial cast serious doubts on his credibility as a forensic witness.

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Another former CIA agent, Robert Baer. CIA Middle Eastern specialist. Worked on the early stages of the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing. Has repeatedly claimed that there was in 1989 "Grade A intelligence" held by America to prove that Iran requested and paid for the Lockerbie bombing. If Baer is correct, then the bomb timer fragment which pointed to Libya must have been planted. More...

Baer

Lord Peter Fraser, Scotland's Chief Law Officer during the investigation and indictments. Claimed in 1991 that witnesses would "prove the case beyond reasonable doubt." Then in 2005 admitted to journalists that his chief witness Gauci was highly unreliable. More...

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Links Professor Robert Black Professor Paul Rogers, Bradford Daniel Ellsberg Website Professor Noam Chomsky Professor Hans Koechler

Times

Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister 2003 - 2006. Has twice said in radio and television interviews that Libya was not responsible and reluctantly paid $2.7 billion compensation only "to buy peace and move forward." More...

AFP

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