Good News On The Libyan Lockerbie Bomb-Maker In American Custody

[DTCwordfan]

But why not in Glasgow or Edinburgh as the terrorist incident occurred in/over Scotland.....?

34 years to nail the bastardbomber....why so long- but at least they have got him.

How was he 'persuaded' to leave Libya?

Family friends were involved in this as their farmland got sprayed with debris from the Pan Am plane.....

[Peter Pedant]

Presumably because I thought he had decided to travel after 34 y.

A snatch = a la Eichmann - and then putting him on trial is a no-no here. Something about respect for justice and procedure

( for the arena bomber's brother, the emigre Libyans rang up the Foreig Office and told them. ( that he was in prison back in Libya ) The clerk kinda said: oh is he?)

[barry1010]

I read somewhere that he was kidnapped and handed over to the US embassy in Libya. No idea if it is true
Jurisdiction is tricky because the Tokyo Convention states crimes in airspace are considered to have occurred in the country in which the plane is registered but Article IV of the Convention allows jurisdiction in a country affected by a criminal act commited in its airspace.

[lady-janine]

People like this, and their masters, should be returned to country where their crime was committed. *** their 'uman rights. They have none as they did not show any to their victims.

[barry1010]

That's the question, L-J. When at attack happens in airspace who has jurisdiction?
Maybe this terrorist will be tried in a US state that has the death penalty, and some people will support that decision and won't want him to be tried in a Scottish court.

[ynnafymmi]

Correct,Barry.If he was tried over here,he would be out of of our so-called prisons within a year,and then get a free house and free benefits for the rest of his life.The Yanks dont do "love and peace and multiple benefits"like us British mugs do.Let the b*s*a*d burn.

[barry1010]

No, he wouldn't

[Peter Pedant]

Hmm there is a longer thread on
if he pleads superior orders - will he get off ( answer no)

[jno]

why so long? Because they immediately decided the perpetrator must be Syrian. Later it dawned on them that Britain might have other enemies, so they widened their investigations.

The case against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man so far convicted, looked dodgy (and his co-defendant turned out to have a solid alibi).

[Buenchico]

>>> The case against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man so far convicted, looked dodgy

It looked very, very dodgy indeed. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the bombing had absolutely nothing to do with Libya at all.

To answer DTC's question though ("But why not in Glasgow or Edinburgh as the terrorist incident occurred in/over Scotland.....?"), the US government claims jurisdiction over what goes on onboard any aircraft operated by a US airline, or which is flying to the USA, other than when it's on the ground in another country with its doors open.

So, as far is the US government is concerned, if you board a British-registered aircraft, operated by a British airline, which is due to fly from (say) Heathrow to New York and you then commit a crime while that aircraft is simply pushing back from its stand at the airport, you can be prosecuted under US law. (That doesn't, however, mean that you can't be prosecuted under English law, as both countries can claim jurisdiction under such circumstances).