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Tag Archives: Magnus Linklater
Response to Magnus Linklater’s latest Scottish Review Lockerbie article
The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the latest issue of the Scottish Review under the headline We can be confident that the Scottish prosecutors got the right man. In it in he takes pot shots at Abdelbaset’s supporters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abouagela Masud, Ken Dornstein, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Scottish Review
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Scottish Review article on the latest Lockerbie claims
The Scottish Review has just published the following article by me about the the coverage of Ken Dornstein’s film My Brother’s Bomber. Lockerbie is back in the news. On 15 October the Crown Office announced that the lord advocate and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdallah Senussi, Abu Agila Mas’ud, Abu Elias, Berlin, CIA, circuit board fragment, crown office, Fred Burton, Frontline, Helsinki Warning, John Bedford, Ken Dornstein, La Belle, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Malta, Megrahi, Musbah Eter, My Brother's Bomber, Pan Am 103, PT/35b, Stasi, Tony Gauci, Victor Ostrovsky, ZDF
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More Lockerbie errors by Magnus Linklater
The following article by Magnus Linklater appears in the Scottish edition of The Times under the headline Lockerbie evidence points firmly in the direction of Libya. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Mr Linklater’s writing on Lockerbie, it contains numerous distortions … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Agila Mas’ud, crown office, Ken Dornstein, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, the Times
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Expanded version of my Scottish Review response to Magnus linklater
Earlier this month, together with other supporters of the ‘Lockerbie bomber’, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, I found myself accused in the Scottish Review of being an obsessive conspiracy theorist, impervious to fact or reason. The article’s author, The Times columnist Magnus Linklater, … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Libya, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Morag Kerr, PFLP-GC, Syria
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My response to Magnus Linklater’s Scottish Review Article
The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater’s earlier article. I shall be posting an expanded version on this blog shortly. Please note that there is an editing mistake in the sentence: For reasons I am about … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Libya, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Morag Kerr, PFLP-GC, Syria
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A letter to The Times and a response from Magnus Linklater
Below is an unpublished letter, which I wrote to The Times in response to Magnus Linklater’s article of 21 December (to which I responded at greater length in an open letter). It provoked a response from Mr Linklater, which I … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theorist, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, the Times
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Another open letter to Magnus Linklater
Dear Magnus, More than two months ago I wrote you an open letter and invited your response. You promised that you would, but, so far, you have not. Yesterday you wrote another commentary piece for the Scottish edition of The … Continue reading
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Tagged Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, SCCRC, the Times
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An open letter to Magnus Linklater
Dear Magnus, First of all, let’s keep this civil. People I respect assure me that you are a decent man. I don’t want to make an enemy of you, or things to get nasty. I’m writing to respond to a … Continue reading
Magnus Linklater and the ‘conspiracy theorist’ slur
Here we go again. In his column in last Friday’s Times, Magnus Linklater once again wrongly accused Abdelbaset’s supporters of alleging a grand conspiracy to convict him, involving judges, detectives and the intelligence agencies. As I’ve told Magnus before, that’s … Continue reading
Response to Magnus Linklater article
Today’s Scottish edition of the Times contains the following comment piece by Magnus Linklater, with whom I had an exchange of views at the Edinburgh Book Festival event on Saturday. My response to the paper’s letters editor is further below. … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh Book Festival, Hans Köchler, Jim Swire, John Ashton, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, the Times
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