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Scottish Review article on the latest Lockerbie claims

  The Scottish Review has just published the following article by me about the the coverage of Ken Dornstein’s film My Brother’s Bomber. Lockerbie is back in the news. On 15 October the Crown Office announced that the lord advocate and … Continue reading

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Private Eye reports on the latest Lockerbie claims

  The following article appears in the latest edition of Private Eye, published today. The announcement earlier this month that the Scottish police are pursuing two new Libyan suspects over the Lockerbie bombing appeared, at first glimpse to be a … Continue reading

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More Lockerbie errors by Magnus Linklater

The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the Scottish edition of The Times under the headline Lockerbie evidence points firmly in the direction of Libya. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Mr Linklater’s writing on Lockerbie, it contains numerous distortions … Continue reading

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What Megrahi told Senussi about Lockerbie

As everyone who follows the Lockerbie knows, two new suspects have been named: alleged bomb-maker Abu Agila Mas’ud and former Libyan security chief Abdullah Senussi. In truth, neither name is new, both have been suspects for almost 25 years. (I … Continue reading

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Response to PBS Frontline ‘My Brother’s Bomber’

The following article appears in today’s Sunday Herald under the headline ‘Linking Megrahi to a new Lockerbie bombing suspect won’t work … he was innocent and his conviction is a stain on Scottish justice’.  It is my first response to the … Continue reading

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Twelve reasons to take Magnus Linklater’s Lockerbie articles with a pinch of seasonal salt

Christmas come but once a year and when it does we can be sure that Magnus Linklater will produce an error-strewn article for the Scottish edition of The Times echoing the proclamations of the Lord Advocate that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was … Continue reading

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Eight inconvenient truths about Lockerbie, which the media and authorities are ignoring

  Today, the 26th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, the media is full of articles about the case. All report the claims of Scotland’s chief prosecutor, the Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC, that a review of the case has confirmed … Continue reading

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Sunday Herald article responds to Lord Advocate’s latest claims of Megrahi’s guilt

  The Sunday Herald has today published the following article by me in response to the Lord Advocates latest claims that Abdelbaset was guilty of the Lockerbie boming. The four elephants in the room which suggest the Lord Advocate is … Continue reading

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Private Eye reports on Lockerbie and the shelving of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill

The latest edition of Private Eye (no. 1366) carries the following article. The Scottish government has quietly shelved for at least a year its controversial Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, heading off an escalating row over the need for corroboration before … Continue reading

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Response to Richard Marquise’s Scottish Review article

The current issue of the Scottish Review carries an article by the head of the FBI’s Lockerbie investigation, Richard Marquise, which critiques the three recently broadcast Aljazeera programmes on Lockerbie. The second of the programmes was originally broadcast on the … Continue reading

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