Lockerbie appeal. Lack of media interest.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I can see a renewed interest in the Lockerbie case from the powers that be. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8324512.stm
Unfortunately, I don't think it has anything to do with 'justice' or anything so grand but a way to manouver Iran into their sights to justify a smack down by any means of the little upstart country from getting ideas that it can run it own show independent of the Anglo-US aims. No doubt Megrahi will still need to be blamed (as they don't want to find him innocent) but he will be found to be working with others with links to Iran. A new examination of the evidence will, I am confident, find these new links. Stay tuned....

Since Megrahi's return to Libya, the original "let's blame the Libyans" scenario has been publicly revealed as untenable tosh.

So, TPTB are busily constructing another cover story for MSM to sell to the masses. This may or may not include blaming Megrahi.

I suspect They may decide to resurrect the Iran-sponsored-Syrian-backed-Palestinians-to-do-it version, especially if They need some more "ammo" to blacken Iran and the non-Abbas Palestinians as conflagration breaks out in the Middle East...

[Magda Hassan]

The last thing they want is to open the can of unattractive worms which would have been opened if Megrahi's appeal went ahead. I think he will be relegated to 'bit player' and it will soon be 'recently deceased former bit player'. To the relief of some.

In the mean time it looks like you are suggesting they may try to get two birds for the price of one stone :2in1:

[Danny Jarman]

Libya discovers cure for cancer!

Well, not really...we all knew the real story. :dong:

[Magda Hassan]

Alex Salmond calls for release of Lockerbie files

Mr Salmond said the documents would vindicate the Scottish government
The Scottish first minister has called on the UK and US governments to publish all of their documents relating to the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
Alex Salmond said US authorities had not wanted Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi to be released from a Scottish prison.
But he claimed they said it would be preferable for Megrahi to be released on compassionate grounds rather than under a prisoner transfer agreement.
He said the documents would "vindicate" the Scottish government's actions.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Salmond emphasised that the Scottish government had made public all of its own documents relating to the release of Megrahi in August last year.
He said the UK and US governments had refused to grant permission for some of the correspondence they had with the Scottish government ahead of Megrahi's release to be published.
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The Sunday Times has claimed to have seen a letter in which the US administration advised the Scottish government that it would be "far preferable" for Megrahi to be released on compassionate grounds than to jail him in Libya under the prisoner transfer agreement.
Mr Salmond did not explicitly confirm the existence of the letter.
But he said: "I think that a fair description of the American government's position is they didn't want al-Megrahi to be released.
"However, if he was to be released, they thought it was far preferable for compassionate release as opposed to the prisoner transfer agreement.
"Presumably the reason that they were so opposed to the prisoner transfer agreement is on roughly the same grounds as the Scottish government had for opposing that agreement - because it was signed initially at the same time as an oil deal was being signed in the famous Deal in the Desert."
Last week, President Barack Obama told a White House press conference that the US had been "surprised, disappointed and angry" about Megrahi being released.
The Scottish government has refused to send any representatives to a US Senate committee hearing into Megrahi's release, which is due to be held on Thursday.
The committee, which is to be chaired by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, wants to establish whether oil giant BP influenced the decision.
Mr Menendez is also understood to have requested that the correspondence between the Scottish and US governments be published.
Former UK Home Secretary Jack Straw has also declined an invitation to appear before the committee.
Megrahi was jailed after being convicted by a Scottish court of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, in south west Scotland, in 1988.
The majority of those who died were US citizens.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10754690

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/E...3-10-15-15

"I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an interview with Expressen, a Stockholm-based tabloid.

and

Abdel-Jalil told Expressen that Gadhafi gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing.

The reference to the interview in swedish is here. Google translation here.