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Most recently, he has agreed to serve as an ‘objective expert’ for the legal team handling the appeal of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am flight...
...involvement with the Al-Megrahi case was decried by some even before the events of Sept. 11. Now, Dershowitz says he only expects more criticism...
...they quietly took down their trees and tinsel and began mourning the 259 passengers and 11 neighbors who were killed. Time has gradually healed those memories, and two years ago Lockerbie restored its Christmas decorations. But it was last week, with the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, that the town seemed finally at peace. "There is a sense of relief that the trial is over and the verdict given," says local councilor Marjory McQueen. "I think Lockerbie has drawn a line under what happened...
...delayed shock the following year. Still vivid to him were the two girls he found in a field still strapped into their seats. "They were clasped tightly together, their fingers crossed, and a look of horror on their faces," he says. Like others in Lockerbie, Parr muses that al-Megrahi must be "a small cog in a big wheel," but he is equally proud of the Scottish justice system and what he sees as a fair trial. He feels it is time to move...
CONVICTED. ABDEL BASSET ALI AL-MEGRAHI, former head of Libyan aviation security, of the murder of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; by a Scottish tribunal in the Netherlands. Al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. His co-defendant, LAMEN KHALIFA FHIMAH, was acquitted owing to insufficient evidence...