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...NETHERLANDS Lockerbie Appeal Five Scottish judges began hearing an appeal by the man convicted of planting the bomb that killed 259 people aboard a Pan Am flight in 1988. Lawyers for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi told the special court at Camp Zeist that new evidence would "tear holes" in the ruling, which jailed al-Megrahi for 20 years. They said statements from a security guard at London's Heathrow Airport showed that the bomb could have originated there, and that the trial judges had erred in relying on the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified the accused...
...Even though they were caught off guard, people here are generally very relaxed. They're disappointed that Megrahi was convicted, because they're convinced he had nothing to do with it. In fact they're puzzled that one man was convicted while the other was allowed to go free - they'd expected both men to be acquitted because of insufficient evidence, and that Lockerbie would then finally be behind them. Now there's more uncertainty about what will happen next...
...cars were on the streets, honking, with young men leaning out of the windows carrying Libyan flags and chanting anti-American and anti-British slogans. But it wasn't a big demonstration. Life appears to be going on as usual, and people are putting a lot of hope in Megrahi's appeal, hoping that he'll be freed...
...Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie have told a Scottish court they're not responsible for the atrocity - and even if Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima are convicted, few observers and family members of the victims believe that the real author of the crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various...
Libya did not immediately react to Hardie's offer. Representatives for the North African nation are scheduled to lay out their case Friday. Libya has refused to hand over Abdel Basset Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah despite crippling U.N. economic sanctions imposed...