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Darling's answer: a Scottish importer...
...despite the prosecution's 1,100 witnesses, the defense plans to implicate other terrorist groups. A recantation from one of the prosecution's witnesses could hurt. When an FBI agent in 1990 showed Edwin Bollier, a Swiss electronics maker, photos of a fingernail-size fragment found in the Scottish woods six months after Pan Am 103 went down, Bollier said it could have come from timers he had made for the Libyan army. But he now tells TIME that after finally seeing the actual fragment, he believes it is not the same piece that he saw pictured--and that...
Back in their Scandinavian homeland, the Vikings' descendants also united into kingdoms, ultimately establishing Norway, Sweden and Denmark and pursuing a history no more or less aggressive than that of any other Europeans. The transfer of the Orkney Islands from Danish to Scottish control in 1468, for example, came not as the result of a bloody battle but as part of a royal wedding dowry...
...Travis, Scottish sensations du jour, took to the stage first, a somewhat odd fact given that their most recent album (The Man Who) outsold the main act's. Except for their opening song (the much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came...
...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...