Talk:Abdelbaset al-Megrahi/Archive 1

Background
I moved the background section to the top, to improve the sequential flow of the story, which I expanded a bit. But I am wondering about Megrahi's very early back story, seems a lot is missing there


 * There is no mention in the article of his father or any siblings. It doesn't say whether his upbringing was rich or poor, or what academic qualifications he holds. Any biography should cover such basics. Crime researcher (talk) 19:50, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

US charges
I think that this article goes into far too much detail concerning the US eg. putting him on the FBI wanted list, etc at the expense of discussing the Scottish aspect. After all, it was in Scotland, not the US, that he was eventually brought to trial.

X damr talk 22:31, 3 February 2007
 * Indeed. It's rather  solipsistic atm.  Hakluyt bean 18:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)(UTC)

Latest news is astonishing: 'A Swiss businessman on Monday said that a key piece of evidence in the Lockerbie trial was faked, following a French press report that one of his employees had lied to Scottish investigators. ... In fact, Mebo employee Ulrich Lumpert has now admitted that the device he handed over to Scottish investigators was one he himself had stolen from the company, rather than part of a batch delivered to Libya in the 1980s.

"The exhibits were manipulated and used to make a link between Libya and the attack," Bollier said. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=21895

Brian Souter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.15.226.132 (talk • contribs) 07:47, September 3, 2007

Inconsistent name
The subject's name as given in Arabic (Abdelbaset Mohammed Ali Al Megrahi) in this article does not match his name as given in the Latin alphabet (Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi). I do not know which version is in error in order to correct it. If someone who does know reads this, please attend to it. Might I add that the name when read correctly in standard Arabic would read Al Meqrahi, colloquially in some Arab countries the q (or k) sound is pronounced as a hard g, a suggestion is that when meqrahi is typed in on search it is redirected to this page. 66.41.209.16 (talk) 20:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The Scottish Court in the Netherlands invariably used the Latin alphabet version (see for example Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi). Newspapers in the United States and Britain use all sorts of variations including that in the title of this article: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. The Arabic version is seldom, if ever, used.PJHaseldine (talk) 08:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Megrahi’s appeal
Story in today's Sunday Times:

It emerged last week that Lord Fraser, the former lord advocate who charged Megrahi, was unaware that a fragment of circuit board linked to the bomb had allegedly been moved to an FBI lab in Washington for analysis ahead of the trial and conviction of Megrahi.

Fraser said he would not have agreed to the step because it could have left the crown open to accusations at the trial that the circuit board could have been damaged or tampered with.

It will be for the Appeal Court to determine the significance of the alleged movement of the fragment in 1990, which may form part of Megrahi’s appeal. --Mais oui! (talk) 08:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Release
It's being reported today that Megrahi is likely to be released on compassionate grounds in the next few days due to his having terminal cancer. I've started a section on this subject currently headed 'Release' although a different heading may be more appropriate. Parts of the article also need updating since they were written at a time when significant events were expected to occur, but haven't been followed up. TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * "Suffering from terminal prostate cancer, with less than three months to live" should read "Suffering from terminal prostate cancer and expected to live less than three months", as there's no way to know at this point whether or not he has three months to live; that number is merely an estimate. (I'd edit it myself, but the page is locked to anon edits.) --76.121.3.11 (talk) 05:01, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Kenny MacAskill stated yesterday that Megrahi has less than three months; some media sources have stated (less than / about) three months. If that was stated this month by a doctor who has examined him, that should be stated in the article. Life expectancy is impossible to precisely determine, but if a doctor said < 3 months, it is almost certain he will die this year. Crime researcher (talk) 10:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)