Abdelbaset al - Megrahi dies
Abdelbaset al -Megrahi died on Sunday. He was a Libyan secret service agent and the sole person convicted of the Pan Am Boeing 747 flight 103 bombing which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people in 1988.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Abdelbaset-al-M...
Megrahi was convicted in 2001 in a court in the Netherlands by Scottish judges and served his sentence in a Scottish jail . In 2009 he was released on compassionate grounds causing an an international outcry particularly
from the United States government and the Gaddafi regime portrayed it as a victory geeting him on his return.
In his last interview in 2011 Megrahi insisted that he was innocent and that evidence would transpire which would exhonerate him. His conviction was contreversial because it depended on circumstantial evidence and Meghrai's links to Malta. The case hinged on a small strip of fabric wrapt round a piece of the detonator which was alledged to have come from a shirt bought in Malta. Commentators point to inconsistencies in the evidence provided. Some even wonder if Libya was the source of the plot. Few doubt that Meghrai could have acted alone.
Before the 9/11 events in America which effectively launched Al Qaeda on the international scene Lockerbie was the worst international terrorist incident and remains Britain's worst terrorist killing in terms of the numbers killed in a single incident.
Al Jazeera TV's discovery and airing of Gaddafi's tapped conversations with his henchmen indicates their ruthlessness and that evidence is still available in Libya. However there was no mention of Lockerbie as Gaddafi had more pressing problems to deal with. Megrahi is being buried today in Tripoli but the controversy over his conviction and who was ultimately responsible for the Lockerbie bombing will continue.
from the United States government and the Gaddafi regime portrayed it as a victory geeting him on his return.
In his last interview in 2011 Megrahi insisted that he was innocent and that evidence would transpire which would exhonerate him. His conviction was contreversial because it depended on circumstantial evidence and Meghrai's links to Malta. The case hinged on a small strip of fabric wrapt round a piece of the detonator which was alledged to have come from a shirt bought in Malta. Commentators point to inconsistencies in the evidence provided. Some even wonder if Libya was the source of the plot. Few doubt that Meghrai could have acted alone.
Before the 9/11 events in America which effectively launched Al Qaeda on the international scene Lockerbie was the worst international terrorist incident and remains Britain's worst terrorist killing in terms of the numbers killed in a single incident.
Al Jazeera TV's discovery and airing of Gaddafi's tapped conversations with his henchmen indicates their ruthlessness and that evidence is still available in Libya. However there was no mention of Lockerbie as Gaddafi had more pressing problems to deal with. Megrahi is being buried today in Tripoli but the controversy over his conviction and who was ultimately responsible for the Lockerbie bombing will continue.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Abdelbaset-al-M...