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...have the foot soldier, but we do not have Gaddafi." ROSEMARY WOLF, whose stepdaughter died in the Lockerbie plane crash, after this week's conviction of a Libyan defendant...
...Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left it to others to draw further conclusions. Bert Ammerman, a New Jersey resident whose brother Tom was on the Pan Am flight, was quick to do so. "Al-Megrahi's conviction leads straight to the doorsteps of Gaddafi," he said after viewing the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast in New York with dozens of other relatives. "He is a coward. He is a rogue leader. And Libya is a rogue state...
...Gaddafi led the press to his own doorstep last week to deliver his singular reading of the verdict and the road ahead. With his arm draped over the acquitted Fhimah, he posed before the destroyed Bab Al Aziziya compound, which was bombed by U.S. planes in April 1986, killing Gaddafi's adopted daughter Hana and several dozen others. An ebullient Gaddafi challenged the verdict of the court he had vowed to respect, saying he would come forward with new evidence of al-Megrahi's innocence so compelling that the judges would be moved to "commit suicide, resign or admit...
...Beyond the court's remit lay the biggest questions, the ones that have not been subjected to the rigorous scrutiny of any judge, Scottish or otherwise, and may never be. Who besides al-Megrahi decided the plane should come down? Was Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and guardian of his country's perpetual revolution, the man who gave the nod? Might al-Megrahi and others have been set on their murderous task by others, such as the Iranians or a Palestinian terrorist group with close ties to Syria and Iran? What role if any did the realpolitik of the West...
...Some Libyan officials intimated that compensation for Lockerbie might be paid after al-Megrahi's appeal. But that was before Gaddafi said his piece on the topic. Slamming his fist against the wall of his crumbling former home, plastered with posters of mutilated children, he called for compensation for the 1986 bombings and the crippling economic sanctions that followed. Gaddafi's words, which were much more strident than the initial Libyan response to the verdict, naturally found support in Tripoli editorials the next day. The Green March daily called the verdict "an open attempt to blackmail the Libyan people...