Man convicted of Lockerbie bombing released

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Originally Posted by Platapus

There may be something to this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/...tain_lockerbie



Is this true? I hope there was more to the evidence than this.

The shopkeeper is the one and only link between the suitcase bomb and Meraghi. His testimony was unreliable at best. Even the guy who wrote the indictment for Meraghi back in 1991 has since said that the shopkeeper was not a reliable witness. For one thing, he had seen a picture of Meraghi in a newspaper speculating that he was behind the bombing shortly before he was asked to pick out a picture of the man he had seen buying the clothes.

The link between the bomb and the shopkeeper was also pretty weak. The link was some charred clothes found near Lockerbie that were traced to the guy's shop. But the charred clothes were mishandled and poorly labeled by the police. The judges at the trial were highly critical of the testimony surrounding the clothes.

There were a lot of strange things at the trial, and it wasn't just from the prosecution. Meraghi's defense team also acted very strangely. Reading about it reinforces my belief that there is still a lot about this crime that we don't know.