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Private Eye article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie book

Posted on June 23, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article appears in the current issue of Private Eye (no. 1421): If former Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill believed his new book about the Lockerbie bombing would end the controversy surrounding the conviction of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, he … Continue reading →

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Latest Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s Lockerbie revelations

Posted on May 29, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article by me appears in today’s Sunday Herald under the headline The unravelling of Kenny MacAskill … and the case against Megrahi.   It was supposed to be Scotland’s publishing event of the year, former justice secretary Kenny … Continue reading →

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Sunday Herald article on Kenny MacAskill’s PII revelation

Posted on May 29, 2016 by John Ashton

The following article, by Peter Swindon and me, was the lead in last Sunday’s Sunday Herald. It apeared under the headline Revealed: MacAskill may have breached Official Secrets Act over Lockerbie. Former justice minister Kenny MacAskill has revealed details of a highly … Continue reading →

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Expanded version of my Scottish Review response to Magnus linklater

Posted on January 29, 2014 by John Ashton

Earlier this month, together with other supporters of the ‘Lockerbie bomber’, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, I found myself accused in the Scottish Review of being an obsessive conspiracy theorist, impervious to fact or reason. The article’s author, The Times columnist Magnus Linklater, … Continue reading →

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My response to Magnus Linklater’s Scottish Review Article

Posted on January 29, 2014 by John Ashton

The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater’s earlier article. I shall be posting an expanded version on this blog shortly. Please note that there is an editing mistake in the sentence: For reasons I am about … Continue reading →

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The Crumbling Lockerbie Case

Posted on January 26, 2014 by John Ashton

The following article by me has just been published under the above headline on the Consortium News website.   A quarter century ago, the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and later was pinned on a … Continue reading →

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Released today: the Fuisz files

Posted on December 20, 2013 by John Ashton

I am today releasing remarkable documents, which reveal that senior Syrian sources were telling a deepcover CIA agent as late as 1995 that the Syrian based group the PFLP-GC was to blame for Lockerbie. The documents feature in tonight’s Channel 4 … Continue reading →

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Press reease for tonight’s Channel 4 News Lockerbie report

Posted on December 20, 2013 by John Ashton

There follows the text of a press release issued this afternoon by Channel 4 News. I shall be releasing the documents upon which the report is based on this blog at 7.30 pm. REVEALED: Secret CIA testimony identifies true Lockerbie … Continue reading →

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Operation Bird – some words of caution

Posted on December 15, 2013 by John Ashton

Today’s media contains a number of articles about an investigation codenamed Operation Bird, which was carried out by a firm called Forensic Investigative Associates, on behalf of Abdelbaset’s defence team prior to his first appeal. The main articles, by the … Continue reading →

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