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The following text has just appeared on the Channel 4 News website: New documents reveal that both high-level Syrian officials and the CIA independently stated that a Syrian-based Palestinian group, not Libya, was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. An exclusive … Continue reading →

Channel 4 News will tonight reveal major new evidence about the real Lockerbie bombers. The report, by Julian Rush, which I produced, will also include a critique of the Scottish authorities by two influential MSPs and an important interview with … Continue reading →

Libya’s justice minister, Salah al-Marghani, has told ITV news that British and American authorities will be allowed to question Gadafy’s former intelligence chief Abdullah Sennusi about Lockerbie. He said: ‘What we are working on is finalising the arrangements for this … Continue reading →

A number of press reports on Operation Bird, including the original one published by Exaro news and the one in today’s Scotsman, claim that the Bird investigation would have been central to Abdelbaset’s second appeal. This is completely untrue. The … Continue reading →

Nelson Mandela visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in Barlinnie prison on 10 June 2002. Here is Abdelbaset’s account of the visit and below it a photo of the two men together and one of the inscription that Mr Mandela wrote in an … Continue reading →

On 3 October Jim Swire and I wrote to the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland QC, to ask three simple but very important questions. We have just received the response below from the head of the Crown Office’s serious and organised … Continue reading →

I am today releasing a second batch of important documents, most of which were withheld from Abdelbaset’s lawyers. All concern the forensic evidence and give a very different picture to that which the Crown presented to the trial court and … Continue reading →