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Gold/Mining/Energy : Lundin Oil (LOILY, LOILB Sweden)
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To: Tomas who wrote (1645)5/9/2000 11:37:00 PM
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Libya: Lockerbie Trial Set To Run Out Of Steam. "Embarrasing failure"
The Express on Sunday, May 7

THE Lockerbie trial could be destined to end in an embarrassing and costly failure for those behind the prosecution of the two Libyans on trial in the Netherlands.

The Sunday Express has learned the prosecution case is so shaky that, as one source put it: "The whole thing will go belly up."

One lawyer at Camp Zeist said: "The prosecution's strategy will be to spin out crushingly boring technical evidence for as long as it can - then the trial will collapse one day when the press has long stopped covering it on a daily basis."

Lawyers defending Libyan suspects Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah do not have to prove a thing. All they must do is sow sufficient doubt over the prosecution's case.

There are plenty of grey areas for them to work on. On Friday they served notice that they would blame the atrocity on the Syrian-backed Palestinian terrorists who were the original suspects. This week they will accuse CIA agents of interfering with key evidence to protect US government missions.

Lockerbie farmer Jimmy Wilson will testify that he found a suitcase which contained a powdery substance believed to be drugs. He said the evidence was snatched away by one of the American search team drafted into Lockerbie after 270 people were killed in the explosion.

Residents in Lockerbie said shadowy figures with American accents arrived in the dead of night after the explosion. Several conspiracy theories have suggested that the CIA was allowing drugs to be shipped into the US in return for help from Middle Eastern countries in releasing the Beirut hostages.

Experts also say fresh evidence will emerge suggesting intelligence agencies secretly rigged the case against Libya. They will point to the fact that Libya only replaced Syria and Iran as the prime suspect after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, when Syrian forces became allies in the fight against Saddam Hussein.

To add to the prosecution's woes, some of their star witnesses have changed their stories. One, Swiss manufacturer Edward Bollier, originally told Scottish investigators that fragments found at the crash came from a consignment of bomb timers sold to the Libyans. Now he says he made the identification from photographs and when finally shown an actual fragment last September he concluded that "these fragments were never part of our electronic equipment".
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