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Lockerbie Bomber Bids to Clear Name

Victims' relatives unimpressed with content of new website

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 18, 2009 3:36 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Lockerbie bomber has launched a website that makes available documents from an appeal he mounted before being released for medical reasons, the Telegraph reports. Relatives of the passengers on Pan Am Flight 103 say Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's site contains nothing new: “It's a lobbying effort. It's almost as if he thinks that if he says it long enough it will become true," said the president of a group that represents victims' families.

“If he wanted to prove his innocence, he should have kept his appeal going,” she added. Megrahi said in a statement that his release on compassionate grounds forced him to abandon his appeal, but Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister who authorized the Libyan’s release, has repeatedly said there was no such condition.

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, seen, in his room in Tripoli international hospital, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, seen, in his room in Tripoli international hospital, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.   (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, seen, in his room, in Tripoli international hospital, Libya, as he meets with African parliamentary delegations, not pictured, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, seen, in his room, in Tripoli international hospital, Libya, as he meets with African parliamentary delegations, not...   (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
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It's absurd that someone who has been convicted of murdering 270 innocent people has this kind of freedom. It's unconscionable and the thought of it just disgusts me.
- Kathleen Flynn, mother of a Lockberbie victim

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Tariq
Feb 16, 2010 12:35 PM CST
If he was guilty do u really think he would go through all this after all da time he has spent in prison, i dont think so, u can hide ur guilt from people but not from god. Some1 had 2 b blamed he was da best scapegoat !!!
aces08
Sep 19, 2009 3:51 AM CDT
Don't be so quick to judge this guy. Idk if he is guilty or not but the details of the case were very sketchy. Reminded me of the Rosenberg (spelling?) case.
youngblood
Sep 18, 2009 8:55 AM CDT
Didn't you die already you pig!

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