Word: megrahi
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...bound for New York City from London, the only man ever convicted of the attack may be headed back to court for an appeal. On Thursday, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) announced that it referred the case of former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi back to the country's High Court system. The SCCRC said Megrahi, currently serving a 27-year minimum sentence, is entitled to a new appeal because he may have suffered a miscarriage of justice in 2001 when he was convicted by a panel of three Scottish judges for the 270 murders...
...nations depended on that country turning over its Lockerbie suspects in 1999, and then, after the trial, accepting responsibility and compensating the victims' families, a settlement hammered out in 2002 and 2003. Libya agreed to pay out $2.7 billion for the bombing. But only one of the Libyans, Megrahi, was convicted - a verdict several parties have disputed, including a U.N.-appointed observer who complained of a "political aura" at the initial trial...
...Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people. A New York law firm claimed the money would be offered in exchange for lifting sanctions and for the removal of Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism. Libya has consistently denied involvement in the bombing, even after Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former member of the Libyan security organization, was found guilty in 2001. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Killing Fields Aid workers in Kisangani reported that Rwandan-backed rebels in eastern Congo have carried out mass executions in revenge for an uprising two weeks before. The bodies of at least...
...Wall Street Journal editorial page, a strong conservative influence, scorned Dershowitz and questioned his patriotism for involving himself with the Al-Megrahi case...
...notes that because of disputed evidence in the case, the United Nations monitor for the trial as well as many family members of the victims questioned whether Al-Megrahi was really the bomber...