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...idea in this case with the poisoning is that people were fortunate that they didn’t have enough that could have killed them. They had enough that they were having some adverse effects, but not enough to be lethal,” she said...
...Police confirmed on Sunday that they would take a fresh look at the evidence in the bombing case after a British newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph, reported that family members had received an e-mail from the Crown Office, Scotland's prosecuting authority, saying police were looking into several possible new leads. The paper said authorities decided to look into the case again after al-Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, dropped his final appeal before the Scottish government released him in August. (See pictures of Lockerbie 20 years...
...Police are keeping quiet on whether there is any new evidence in the case or whether the FBI will be involved, as it was in the original investigation. But in the e-mail that the Crown Office sent to family members in September, Lindsey Miller, a senior prosecutor, suggested that investigators had been examining forensic evidence and that several leads showed promise. "Please be assured that this is not simply paying lip service to the idea of an 'open' case," she wrote...
...Other issues may also hamper the fresh probe. Richard Marquise, who was the FBI special agent in charge of the U.S. investigation into the bombing, tells TIME that the inquiry may be hindered by the fact that most of the investigators in the original case, him and Henderson included, have retired. He says "fresh eyes" can often uncover leads that were missed the first time around, but adds, "I have always believed that police and prosecutors often err when not using 'old eyes' in addition to new ones." (Read "Was Oil Part of a Deal for the Lockerbie Bomber...
...daughter Theodora would have been 41 next month had she not died on the flight - says al-Megrahi's trial was "narrow in its scope, and it's right that we now look further." Although she's frustrated that it has taken so long for another review of the case, she's not worn out by the protracted search for justice. "You can never be too exhausted when searching for the murderers of your child," she says...