They are focusing on possible accomplices to released Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi.
Gee, I wonder why. So they can turn around and let them go on compassionate grounds?
<--- An aerial view of the Lockerbie bombing crash site.
From Reuters:
Police are following several lines of inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing focusing on possible accomplices of convicted former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, Scottish authorities said on Sunday. The review was part of a regular series carried out into the bombing of PanAm flight 103 over the Scottish town in December 1988, Scotland's chief prosecutor said in an e-mail sent to relatives of British victims.
The authorities were not re-opening the case into Megrahi -- who dropped his appeal against his conviction but maintains his innocence -- but would focus on who might have worked with him, the Scottish Crown Office, the country's prosecuting authority, said in a statement. "Now that the appeal proceedings are at an end a further review of the case is under way and several potential lines of inquiry ... are being considered," it said.
The Crown Office said the trial court accepted its position that Megrahi acted in "furtherance of the Libyan intelligence services and did not act alone".
Meanwhile, the Tripoli Post is reporting that a key piece of evidence used to convict Megrahi has been tampered with...
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