{"id":1015,"date":"2014-01-29T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2014-01-29T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:17:23","slug":"response-magnus-linklaters-scottish-review-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"My response to Magnus Linklater&#8217;s Scottish Review Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish review has just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishreview.net\/JohnAshton142.shtml\">my response<\/a> to Magnus Linklater&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishreview.net\/MagnusLinklater139.shtml\">earlier article<\/a>. I shall be posting an expanded version on this blog shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that there is an editing mistake in the sentence:<\/p>\n<p><em>For reasons I am about to explain, the case against these alternative suspects may turn out to be as flawed as the one against Megrahi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>which should read:<\/p>\n<p><em>For reasons I am about to explain, I am not, however, as I cautioned in my book Megrahi: You are my Jury, the case against these alternative suspects may turn out to be as flawed as the one against Megrahi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net\/?p=1015\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,77,5,25,6,85,67,74],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iran","tag-libya","tag-lockerbie","tag-magnus-linklater","tag-megrahi","tag-morag-kerr","tag-pflp-gc","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My response to Magnus Linklater&#039;s Scottish Review Article - Megrahi: You are my Jury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net\/?p=1015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My response to Magnus Linklater&#039;s Scottish Review Article - Megrahi: You are my Jury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater&#8217;s earlier article. 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