magrahi dead.........

[excelsior-1]

your thoughts on this matter?

[237SJ]

My thoughts on Magrahi being dead are that he is dead. There`s not much else to say though. I`m not sure he was guilty. I always thought the Scottish powers that be knew more than they were letting on which is why they released him to go home to Libya to die. If he was guilty, he for sure was a frontman and wasn`t working alone. I disagree with Sqad`s comment that Jim Swire knew more than most. He was a member of the public (who lost a family member) but in the world of airline terrorism he is one of many and would never be party to sensitive information. There is a group of parties who meet regularly (I can`t remember whether it is monthly or quarterly) and they shall remain nameless. They investigate and report on threats to the airline world. I was party to one of their reports last year (they predicted a few things that were going to happen and more importantly, where the threats would come from). If anyone knows about Magrahi, they would. And they would never make that info public so speculation will always abound. I don`t think we`ll ever know who brought down Pan Am 103.

[ummmm]

Chap really needs to improve his/hers debating skills. End of!!!

[Mick-Talbot]

I can't believe people are suggesting he is innocent.

[ummmm]

Why?

You don't think it's possible he could have been used as a scapegoat?

[emmie]

none, whether guilty or not, he is now laid to rest.

[jake-the-peg]

Really Mick

Have you looked at the evidence?

His identification was rather dodgy

You think thatit's a coincidence it happened a matter of months after the Americans shot down an Iranian airliner?

[Mick-Talbot]

Was he picked up off the streets of Libya whilst walking his dog ?



He was involved somehow, he is now dead ....god riddance.

[Mick-Talbot]

Good

[FredPuli43]

I'm sure he was wrongly convicted; whether or not he did it , is another matter; the conviction was unsafe.

The governmernt knew that the conviction would be quashed if he pursued an appeal, with embarrassment all round, not to mention what might emerge in the appeal. So his being ill was grasped as a good way out; he agrees not to make trouble like that and he can go home to Libya, the government can say how humane the Scottish justice system and government are, everyone wins. So long as he's not held up constantly as a hero of the people, nobody is embarrassed, and he wasn't greeted any more extravagantly than a sick man, who happens to be from a significant tribe, would be on being brought home. And he has died quietly, not as soon as expected; explained by the difficulty of predicting; of cancer.

Would be nice to know who did it, specifically and in the wider sense, how it was organised and on what authority, but we can guess the broad picture easily enough, and we can say with confidence that nobody in power really wants an inquiry to make the details public!

[ludwig]

The decision to release him was ridiculous in my opinion.

[chaptazbru]

And ummm really needs to get a grip. He/she is never happy unless having a go at someone. End of !!!!!!

[karenmac60]

The main evidence against him was a piece of a shirt which was identified as being bought by Megrahi by a shop owner in Malta, some 13 years after the event. Now I have good memory, but I'd be hard pushed to identify a one time customer 13 days later - never mind 13 years. And cross race identification is a lot less reliable than same race identification. All very flimsy.

[237SJ]

I`m not sure. He worked for Libyan Arab airlines in Malta and whoever did it had inside knowledge of the loopholes within the baggage transfer process. It is possible an outsider would have known but equally the whole thing could have been an inside job.

[DTCwordfan]

Now maybe I can put my statement down for which I got suspended after a spatz with the Russian Count, this in a different usage of the word.

That word is "Good"

However, I will temper this with there are an awful lot of questions to be answered and he may well be not guilty. In my days around the ME, there was a lot of opinion (and apparently the bomb construction itself) that suggested it was Syrian, grace of the Iranians.....in revenge to the US shooting down their plane - and similar number of deaths.

[askyourgran]

I agree, the evidence was flimsy, even if he was guilty I don't think he was the only one involved, but there were no others jailed as far as I remember. He never pointed the finger at anyone else.

[maggiebee]

[]testing again[]

[maggiebee]

Damn - back to the drawing board.