The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the weekend the only Lockerbie-related stories in the UK press have related to US Senator Chuck Schumer's letter to Gordon Brown calling on the Prime Minister to demand Abdelbaset Megrahi's return from Tripoli to prison in Scotland because he has survived longer that three months since his release. What is vaguely surprising is the respectful tone of the accounts that I have seen. None of them...
Jailhouselawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from prostate cancer.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Lockerbie row reignited as Megrahi exceeds life expectancy when released Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, American families of victims question medical advice Ewen MacAskill in Washington, Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent, Ian Black, Middle East editor guardian.co.uk | 20 November 2009 Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is taken from Greenock prison to Glasgow...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Three months ago today, the 'terminally ill' Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, was released from prison on 'compassionate grounds' and returned home to cheering throngs in Libya. It was said he had three months to live. So...? I mean if...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is apparently still alive Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the families of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing have reignited a row over the medical advice that allowed him to be freed early from his 27-year sentence. Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from prison...
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “said Thursday that the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber should be transferred back to a Scottish prison,” The Hill reports. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the terminally ill Libyan bomber released last summer has lived longer than the three months upon which his release was contingent. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
PRESSURE for public updates on the Lockerbie bomber's medical condition intensified last night.
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Calls for the documents, which cast doubt on the Lockerbie bomber's conviction, to be made public intensified yesterday, three months after his release. The Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Robert Brown MSP demanded full details of an investigation carried out by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. It was the SCCRC that recommended that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi should appeal his...
SNP Tactical Voting (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tomorrow marks the three month anniversary of Kenny MacAskill's speech to the world in which he announced that Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, would be released on compassionate leave. Needless to say, there is little doubt that a Scottish, perhaps even international, political storm is ready to kick off once more as this decision was based on medical reports that suggested...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE Scottish Government faces demands to release all records on Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi - 90 days after he was freed from jail on compassionate grounds.
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE Scottish Government faces demands to release all records on Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi - 90 days after he was freed from jail on compassionate grounds.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Lockerbie bomber's medical records should be released amid speculation he will live longer than anticipated when he was released the Tories have said.
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
This is becoming embarrassing – for Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. His problem is that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, is, at time of writing, still defiantly alive in Libya, when he was supposed to be dead by now. When MacAskill released Megrahi in the teeth of world opinion, it was under the humanitarian convention whereby prisoners with less than three...
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
[The following press release was sent to me by a reader. The blog post on the Doha Debate on the motion "This House deplores the release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya" can be read here .] Doha, Qatar, November 4 : Six out of 10 Arabs support the Scottish government's decision to send the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi back to Libya on compassionate grounds – but...
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