re: #43 Obdicut

Upon re-reading one of items I found this bit I missed earlier:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/lockerbie-suspect-can-still-be-brought-to-trial-1.860639

However, The Herald can reveal today that Talb is not immune from prosecution and could therefore be tried for the atrocity if Megrahi is cleared, after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission gave him leave to mount a second appeal against his conviction. A spokeswoman for the Crown Office confirmed: “Abu Talb does not have Crown immunity.”

The commission is understood to have uncovered new evidence which strengthens the line of inquiry against Abu Talb, who was allegedly funded by Iran to explode the plane in revenge, after the American cruiser USS Vincennes shot an Iran Air flight out of the sky on July 3, 1988, killing 290 people.

The SCCRC’s report refers to the recovery of new official records from various organisations in Italy, which are thought to refer to Abu Talb, who travelled between Cyprus, Rome, Malta and Frankfurt in the run-up to the bombing.

Evidence not heard at the original trial in 2000-1 also reveals the CIA thought Abu Talb was the man responsible and that the police found clothes, including a blue babygro similar to the one found at Lockerbie, when they raided his flat in Germany.

Robert Black, QC, a lawyer instrumental in arranging for the case to go ahead at Camp Zeist, said yesterday: “Abu Talb and the Iranians could form part of a new case. If there is genuinely new evidence, it seems to me that would satisfy the case for a new trial. In legal theory, there is no reason why they could not bring charges against someone else.”

They really should pursue this. Like, really really. And if Iran was behind this (as a revenge for flight 655)…