Documentary casts doubt on Megrahi guilt

‘Lockerbie: Case Closed’, an hour-long documentary to be aired on Al Jazeera tonight will “reveal the secret contents” of a Scottish legal review into the case of Abdelbaset al Megrahi, showing there were serious mistakes made in the forensic evidence which sent the Libyan to jail.

In 2001, a Scottish court convicted the 59-year-old cancer-stricken man of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.

Nevertheless, he was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after doctors announced Megrahi had only three months to live. He received a hero’s welcome when he arrived in Libya, which was then still under the rule of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Megrahi accused US intelligence agencies of leading the way in securing his conviction saying “I am facing my death any time, and I don’t want to accuse anyone, or any country. But the Americans led the way.”

Last December, in an interview with Scottish investigator George Thomson, he claimed that he is innocent, stating, “I am about to die and I’d ask now to be left in peace to die with my family, and they be left in peace by the media as well. I will not be giving any more interviews, and no more cameras will be allowed into my home … I am an innocent man.”

Earlier this month, members of the Justice For Megrahi group condemned politicians, lawyers, civil servants and governments for an “orchestrated desire” to keep details of his case under wraps, adding, they “either have to be dishonest or ignorant” to allow the secrecy to continue.

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