Merged Lockerbie bomber alive after 9 months

Megrahi's (first) appeal was actually in progress when the 9/11 attacks happened. He described (in John Ashton's book) being utterly shocked by what had happened, but also realising in despair that the authorities would never acquit him now, because he was a Moslem accused of aircraft-related terrorism.

I don't know to what extent that is true, but it's certainly the case that there's a lot of blatant apologetics, plus fingers-in-ears-and-humming-real-loud, in the Opinion of the appeal court judges. Lord Osborne went from observing that it appeared it was impossible that an unaccompanied suitcase could have travelled on flight KM180, to endorsing a report that just said, well it must have happened anyway, "we have to bear in mind the Crown's case was that this was a criminal act". That one has always astounded me. You mean, it's fine for a court to decide something happened for which there is no evidence (and a lot of evidence saying it didn't happen) so long as we make sure we're alleging it was done by an unspecified "criminal act". What, really?

It also seems to be the position of everyone who got to know Megrahi personally that he was a normal guy and not a wild-eyed terrorist of any description. That was why he was moved from Barlinnie to Greenock - the high-security solitary confinement environment at Barlinnie was seen as absolutely incongruous for this obviously low-risk prisoner.

Rolfe.
 
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I see someone changed the title, which seems a bit pointless and unnecessary. Reminds me of the article RevStu put up on the day Megrahi's death was announced, though.

BREAKING: Lockerbie bomber still alive

RevStu said:
Because, y’know, it wasn’t Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who died today.



Perhaps one day we’ll know the truth, though.
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Hopefully we'll hear soon if there are any competent moves to apply to the SCCRC for a third appeal into this farce of a conviction.

ETA: Just noticed this part of Giz's post.

Giz said:
.... perhaps eulogizing him like he's Nelson Mandela might be a bit much....
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Giz, do you realise that Nelson Mandela was (is) one of Megrahi's strongest supporters? He campaigned on his behalf back in the 1990s and visited him in prison in 2002. I have a photo in a book (not on line) of them together in the prison visiting area, with Megrahi clasping Mandela's hand. Also of the inscription Mendela wrote in Megrahi's copy of Maldela's autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom. It reads "To Comrade Megrahi, Best wishes to one who is in our thoughts and prayers continuously. N. Mandela, 10-6-2002."

I think there are a lot of people making assumptions about this affair which are simply not warranted.

Rolfe.
 
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I see they changed the title back. Sensible, really.

It's true, Nelson Mandela was a convicted terrorist. I imagine that's part of why he has always been so supportive of Megrahi. He knows what it's like to be unjustly imprisoned, in his case for 27 years. He made it through. Megrahi didn't.

I think Mandela actually did what he was convicted of doing, though. He really did bomb and sabotage quite a lot. He really did blow things up. It's just that we now believe he was justified in what he did.

The bombing of Pan Am 103 can't be justified by any possible reasoning. It was an appalling, atrocious act of mass murder. It's just that Megrahi doesn't ever seem to have been politically active, or to have been involved with any sort of violent action, and the so-called "evidence" linking him to Pan Am 103 is risible.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
This may be unwise, but what the hell. I mentioned in a thread in the CT forum that I had a late-draft PowerPoint presentation on Lockerbie, aimed at interested people who don't have a detailed understanding of the case. It's accessible (for now) as a PDF file, no animations and the narration printed under the slides.

www.vetpath.co.uk/lockerbie/ppt.pdf

I would be interested in feedback from anyone who cares to take the trouble to read it. Including ALT+F4.

Rolfe.
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Thanks. I've read half in detail and half in less detail. It's very clear and easy to read.
 
Thanks.

It's not ideal of course, because it's meant to have the narration read over the slides, with a little bit of animation on some of the slides. But I haven't figured out how to do that and put it on the net, yet.

What annoys me is people who refuse to read even the most basic explanation of the issues in the case, but like to come to threads to denounce this evil murderer and pooh-pooh any suggestion that actually he wasn't the evil murderer at all.

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe said:
It's not ideal of course, because it's meant to have the narration read over the slides, with a little bit of animation on some of the slides. But I haven't figured out how to do that and put it on the net, yet.
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"Use Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser."

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12033

hope this helps
 
I'll investigate later, thanks. I did have a thread in Computers and the Internet asking about it, but not everybody reads that section. It does sound ideal - I want a presentation format that's entirely passive, that is the viewer has no opportunity to edit the presentation, even by doing a "save as".

Then all I need to do is get Tilda Swinton or somebody like that to do the audio track, rather than me... :D

Rolfe.
 
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