Word: libyans
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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...
...come forward with new evidence of al-Megrahi's innocence so compelling that the judges would be moved to "commit suicide, resign or admit the truth." Al-Megrahi, still in custody in the Netherlands until his expected appeal is heard, is likely to be among those wondering why the Libyan leader didn't speak up sooner...
...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...
...name on Dec. 20 and his association with Edwin Bollier, the Zurich electronics expert the court believes manufactured the timer for the bomb, was enough to dispel any reasonable doubt as to his guilt. The judges felt the prosecution's case was insufficient against Fhimah, former station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta. Though entries in his diary suggest he gave Air Malta luggage tags to al-Megrahi, the court wasn't convinced he was "necessarily aware" that they would be used to spirit a bomb onto a plane; nor did the prosecution present evidence that Fhimah...
...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...