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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/415">Alex Miller</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p><em><strong>Megrahi: You are My Jury ― The Lockerbie Evidence</strong></em><br />
John Ashton<br />
Birlinn 2012<br />
￡14.99, 497 pages</p>
<p>Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town Lockerbie in December 1988 and is usually described in the mainstream media as “the Lockerbie bomber”.</p>
<p>Readers familiar with Paul Foot’s series of penetrating articles on Lockerbie in <em>Private Eye</em> will already be familiar with the potentially problematic nature of Megrahi’s trial and conviction. But this book brings the story up to date. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51155" target="_blank">read more</a></p>