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Court!

The whole case
against them is a fiction.

It's a lie.

The entire prosecution case
rested on this

fragment of
electronic circuit board.

It was a clue,
but no one
could identify it

until a forensic scientist
at the FBI did nearly
a year later.

He matched it to timers
they'd seized

from Libyan Intelligence agents.

British forensic scientists
agreed with the FBI.

Similar in all respects.

The timers that
the fragment circuit board
came from

were made by MEBO,

a Swiss company owned
by Edwin Bollier.

Yes, we supplied Libya
with 20 of these timers.

MEBO used long delay timers,

which are manually
set to trigger

the bomb's detonator
hours in advance.

So my question is,
why put the bomb on
to two flights,

Malta to Frankfurt,
Frankfurt to Heathrow,

before it goes onto the plane
you want to blow up?

It doesn't make sense.

You run the risk
of your suitcase

being found by security
at three airports.

It's clearly a ludicrous basis
for a prosecution.

Next...

Tony Gauci.

Now he claims that Megrahi
bought from his shop

the clothes that were
wrapped around the bomb
inside the suitcase.

But a year before
he identified Megrahi,
he mentioned someone else.

Abu Talb, a terrorist with links

to Palestinian militant groups

operating out of Syria.

One of the Scottish Police's
first suspects.

The whole prosecution case

against Fhimah and Megrahi
is full of holes.

It was presented
as a foregone conclusion
from the very first day...

These men are guilty.
We will get a conviction.

Murtagh represented
the US Department of Justice.

He said that
before the trial began,
but nothing has been proven.

But if it wasn't them, then who?

Iran.

Syria.

But, Jim,
they moved on from them.

There's more.

One of the prosecution's
last witnesses

was a German Police
explosives expert.

They wanted him to destroy
the Palestinian theory.

Remember
the initial suspects,
the PFLP-GC?

Well, he did the opposite.

Flight 103 could only
have been brought down
by a PFLP-GC device

if it had been primed
or put on board at Heathrow.

And a baggage handler
at Heathrow saw two suitcases.

There was two new suitcases
lying in the container.

I didn't put them there.

Was the bomb that killed Flora
in one of those suitcases?

Was the bomb loaded
onto the plane at Heathrow?

Is Iran behind it?

Is Syria?

Did a member of the PFLP-GC
put the suitcase there?

Nothing in this whole case
adds up. Nothing.

Fhimah and Megrahi
are both innocent.

Would you give me please
your verdict

in respect of the named accused,
Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah?

Not guilty.

What?

Would you give me please
your verdict

in respect of the named accused,

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi?

Guilty.

He can't be...

He can't...

for the crime of murder
is 20 years...

life imprisonment...

and that is the sentence
that we impose.

Jim?

Jim! Quick,
get someone, please!
He's collapsed.

Please, help me.

- Please, help me.
- Can we get someone
in here?

Please get someone.

Jim, Jim, it's all right.

Jim, it's all right.

- We need a doctor!
- It's all right, Jim.

Please...

Coming to us live from New York.

Reports are reaching us
of a collision involving
a passenger plane

which appears
to have struck
the World Trade Center.

Let's go over to our
colleagues in New York.

Southern tip of Manhattan,

you're looking at
the World Trade Center.

We understand that
a plane has crashed into
the World Trade Center.

We don't know
anything more than that.

We don't know if it was
a commercial aircraft.

We don't know
if it was
a private aircraft.

We have no idea
how many were on board,

or what the extent
of the injuries are right now.

- Oh! Oh, my God!
- A second plane.

It looks like
a second plane has hit

the south tower
of the World Trade Center.

Oh, my God...

It looks to be a passenger jet.

The second plane...

Fucking terrorists.

Good luck with your appeal now.

These acts of mass murder

were intended
to frighten our nation
into chaos and retreat.

But they have failed.

These terrorists will
regard us all as targets.

The war on Muslim terror.

Forget political correctness.

- Racially profile...
- Racial factor.

- The number of hate crimes...
- Another mosque vandalized.

For attempted arson attacks
on Arab businesses.

Muslims shot dead...

Muslims threatened with gunfire.

- The target of hate...
- War on terror...

- War on terror.
- Terrorist...

Terrorism must be
fought resolutely.

We will find those who did it.

We will smoke them
out of their holes and
we'll bring them to justice.

After a year
of witnesses testifying,

al-Megrahi's appeal
against his life sentence

was refused earlier today

by a panel of five judges
at Camp Zeist,

who concluded that
none of the grounds

of his appeal were well-founded.

No surprises there.

Mr. Al-Megrahi has been
flown to Scotland,

where he will serve
his 20-year life term

here at Barlinnie Prison,

outside Glasgow.

You better fucking
watch yourself.

Youse gonna die,
you dirty rag-head!

- Welcome to Scotland.
- You're screwed, pal.

If you want room service,
just ring.

How are you, darling?

- Exhausted, sleep deprived...
- Doesn't show.

Much.

Do you mind her being in here?

Her name's Isabel, Jim.

It's a bit odd,
but I know why
you've done it.

I want this room used again.

How are you, Dad?

Oh, you know...

No, I don't.

It's very difficult, obviously.

Megrahi lost his appeal.

He's in prison now
over two months.

Shall we go downstairs,
let her sleep?

But trying to get
any information

about how he is,
is proving impossible.

You're still convinced
of his innocence?

Of course.
You only have to look
at his failed appeal.

All kinds of new evidence heard,

new information about
the shopkeeper, Heathrow...

You know there was a break-in.

He has to appeal again.

- He has to...
- Jim! Jim! Jim, please.

- Hello?
- Hey, Jim. Good news.

I've just heard Megrahi

is being granted application
for a second appeal.

Oh, that is fantastic.

He's also got rid
of his legal team,

hired a new lawyer,
Roddy McGill.

He was with Fhimah's
defense team.

Yeah, well,
Megrahi is obviously
hoping for the Midas touch.

Also, Jim, I found a detective

who was on
the original investigation.

He wants to talk.

Oh, I've gotta go.

Bryan?

What the hell
are you doing here?

- I said no.
- You phoned me.

Aye, then I thought
better of it.

Now, fuck off.

Look, I remember talking to you
a few weeks after Lockerbie

about the FBI, CIA.

Possible interference
in the investigation.

Evidence tampering.

I can't speak to you.
I'm still with the force.

Why call me out of the blue
14 years later?

You know there's been
a cover up, don't you?

You're looking
in the wrong place.

What do you mean?

Bryan...

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

Your source pan out?

Uh, no.
He got spooked.

But I'll give it
a couple of days

and try again.

I'd drop it, Guthrie.

There are bigger things
going on.

Mr. McGill.
I've got a Jim Swire here.

It's very good to meet you,
Mr. McGill.

Congratulations on
getting Fhimah off.

Well, we're hoping
for a repeat performance.

Shona Randall,
my senior associate.

John Ashton, our researcher.

As you can see, we're
targeting the prosecution's
weak spots.

Tony Gauci being a big one.

I see you have
Robert Baer's name there.

Ex-CIA case officer who was
based in the Middle East.

You certainly need
to talk to him.

What he says in that book
about Iran being
behind the bomb

is potentially game-changing.

Yeah, I know.
But I've had no response
from him or his publisher.

I do know he happens to have
a book tour coming up.

What are Megrahi's chances?

I'd say it's pretty good.

But it's up to
the Scottish Criminal

Cases Review Commission, not us.

I will never understand it.

The prosecution built
its entire case

around the claim
that they acted together.

I mean, even the UN observer
and the trial

questioned how the judges
came up with guilty
in one case

and not guilty in the other.

Well, we need to make sure
the Review Commission
sees the absurdity of that.

It's a total miscarriage
of justice.

As you can see, Dr. Swire,
we're in the midst of doing
exactly that.

I want to visit Mr. Megrahi.

I fought long and hard
for that trial.

I want to meet him.

All that blood on his hands.

How can you, of all people,

be able to be
in the same room as him?

Did you kill my daughter?

No.

I did not.

Forgive me.
I had to hear you say it.

Sometimes...

it is best to be direct.

You must have other questions.

Ask.

How are you?

I will spend 20 years
in a foreign jail

for a crime I did not commit.

My family have had to move
to this foreign country

where they are abused
and attacked daily.

I can't imagine
what it must be like for you,
being in here.

With your family having
to suffer there.

Especially knowing
what I know now.

What do you know now?

That the case against you
is a sham.

A travesty of justice.

And I will do everything
in my power
to help you, Mr. Megrahi.

Get your conviction overturned.

I am intrigued.

It is to absolve your guilt?

Like I said, Dr. Swire,

sometimes it's best
to be direct.

You are here partly
because of my actions.

Not a day goes by

without my bitterly
regretting that.

I was led to believe that

the evidence against you
was watertight.

Incontestable.

Yes, they did their best.

They lied, deceived.
They succeeded.

Dr. Swire...

my country Libya
is paying for my legal fees.

I have new legal team
after the failure

of my first appeal.

So, please tell me,

why do I need you to help me?

What do you
expect, Dr. Swire?

I would embrace you
as my savior?

No, that's not what
I expect at all.

I have to do something.

Because if you do not...

you may never find out
who killed your daughter.

Yes.

So in truth,
it's not about me at all,
is it, Dr. Swire?

Perhaps not.

Not entirely.

I wear this badge
for my daughter.

And now I wear it also
for you, Mr. Megrahi.

And simply for what it says.

The truth must be known.

Please...

call me Baset.

I thought I might find you here.

You're hard
to get hold of these days.

Good to see you, Jim.

How long has it been?
Nearly a year.

Something like that.

You on your way to Skye?

I visited Barlinnie
this morning.

You never cease to amaze.

What if I got you
an interview with Baset?

- Baset?
- I can arrange it.

I can speak to him,
speak to his appeal team.

Megrahi's not news, Jim.

The last time
I wrote anything
about Lockerbie,

buried on page eight,
two columns.

The world and my editor
wants 9/11
and the war on terror.

- I'm being left behind...
- You can interview both of us.

The father of Flora Swire

and the innocent man
convicted of her murder.

Then the press would
murder you, Jim.

Believe me, that's not
the exposure you're wanting.

The... Look, Jim...

The thing is,
most people think he did it.

And now most people
just want to forget.

Bye, darling.
Take care. I love you.

Drive safely now.

I do.

How was Cathy? Isabel?

What?

It saddens me
you have to ask that.

They're fine, Jim.

How is he?

Struggling.

I think he appreciated my visit.

Did you not want me to go?

I'm not sure it matters
what I say anymore.

He's all you talk about.
You know that, don't you?

I'm trying to get him freed.

You've not asked
one of us directly
what we think.

You've never wanted to sit down
and discuss it as a family.

You just assume we're
behind you, Supporting you.

Is that what the children think?

Why can't they just
come and speak to me?

Because they don't think
you listen, Jim, and you don't.

You haven't noticed
they hardly come here
anymore.

There are too many bad memories.

But this this is
where they grew up.

This is where they all grew up.

I think we should move.

I'm not leaving this house!

I want to be closer
to my children,

to my grandchildren.

I want to be around life,
not death.

Not death
every single minute
of the day.

Would I rejoin the CIA
if I was asked?

With all due respect,

have you read any of my books?

Thank you.

Jim Swire,
as I live and breathe.

Professional thorn in the side,
just like me. How are you?

It's good to meet you, Bob.

This is John Ashton
from Megrahi's appeal team.

Of course.

Let me finish up here.

I'll meet you guys
in the next room to this in ten.

No prying ears.

Damn good to meet you, Jim.

Look, Lockerbie is very simple.

It was Iran's revenge.

For the Americans
shooting down their Airbus.

Like I say in the book,

the CIA had known about it
all along.

The bombing of Flight 103
was conceived,

authorized and financed by Iran.

They paid the Syrian-based
PFLP-GC to do it.

The bomb was made
by a PFLP-GC bomb maker,

a Jordanian named
Marwan Khreesat.

We know that
they were raided
by German police

in October 1988.

- The Autumn Leaves operation.
- Yeah.

They arrested
some of their main players,

but others slipped
through the net.

They only found
four explosive devices.

Lost track of the fifth.

I believe that was
the bomb that killed
your daughter, Jim.

Your guy, Megrahi,

had nothing to do with it.

You talk about a meeting.

The Iranians met
with the PFLP-GC people
in Beirut.

We had telephone intercepts
of them discussing it.

Two days after Lockerbie,

Iran transferred $11 million
into a PFLP-GC bank account.

We have records of the transfer.

Hell, we had ironclad proof.

Handed over our intel
to the US Administration.

What did they do?

One look, quietly shelved it.

- Why?
- There were bigger problems.

Like Saddam Hussein.

Once he invaded Kuwait in 1990,
suddenly everything changed.

We were at war, and we needed
Iran and Syria on our side,

so the heat was off them,
sands shifted.

They pointed the finger
at Libya.

A rogue state,
proven terrorist links,

developing weapons
of mass destruction.

Gaddafi was the top
of our hit list.

Plus, we needed to throw
some kind of bone

to the victims'
grieving families.

Libya was that bone.

This has to go
into the submission, John.

The Review Commission
have to know about this.

Would you speak to them?

Go on the record?

Sure, I'll talk to
whoever you want,

but it won't make a difference.

Right now, Libya is
right where we want them.

Tomorrow, that could
all be flipped.

Libya has oil, remember.

Suddenly Gaddafi
will be back in favor,

or he'll buy his way
back into favor.

And Megrahi will stay guilty
for as long as they need him to.

It's all transactional, Jim,
so tread carefully.

You don't want to be
on loose footing

when the sands shift.

There it is, our full report
ready to be submitted

to the Scottish Criminal
Cases Review Commission.

Where's the champagne, then?

On ice.
For now, it's the pub.

We have to get it
accepted first.

We appreciate what
you've gone through
to help out.

How long will it take
the Review Commission
to decide?

Well, they're professionals,
they know what they're doing.

Thank you.

McGILL:
It's a man's incarceration
we're talking about

I'd say a year...

maybe less.

McGILL:
They took their time...

but the Review Commission
have finally delivered
their statement of reasons.

They rejected
all of our submissions.

- Oh, no.
- Shit.

Apart from six.

Six grounds for referral
back to an Appeal Court.

The first ground of referral.

Unreasonable verdict.

The judges were satisfied

the purchase of clothing
was made from Gauci's shop

on December 7th, 1988,
when Megrahi was in Malta.

But Tony Gauci was never clear
on the exact purchase date.

He tell the court
a Libyan customer

buy umbrella from his shop

because it's raining outside.

My defense team called in
Malta's chief meteorologist...

Who said there was no rain
on the 7th of December.

Yes, but...

there was rain
on the 23rd of November.

The only other
potential purchase date

matching Gauci's statement...

and I was not on Malta
on the 23rd of November.

- Baset?
- Please...

I must use bathroom.

McGILL: Referral grounds
two and three,

undisclosed evidence relating

to Gauci's identification
of Megrahi,

and the date when the clothes
were purchased from his shop.

Thank you.

When the Commission
looked into this,

they found that Gauci
actually gave 23 statements,

and he was visited
by the Scottish Police, Jim,

- more than 50 times. Fifty.
- Fifty?

You remember,
only 19 of his statements

were given to my defense team.

The details of these meetings,
they have never been revealed.

What else did Gauci
claim in them, I wonder?

By withholding this information,

the Crown denied the defense
items of real importance,

in undermining the Crown case.

Fourth referral.

Undisclosed evidence about
Gauci's interest in rewards.

The commission discovered
three Scottish police documents

that suggested that Gauci...

Gauci was aware
that a substantial reward

was on offer
from the US Government.

A reward for giving evidence?

Jesus! Did he get paid?

Referral five.

Undisclosed secret
intelligence documents.

Last year, the Crown
informed the commission

of two classified documents
held at Dumfries police station.

The commission
believes non-disclosure

of one of
the documents indicates...

that a miscarriage of justice
may have occurred.

That is what
we were waiting for.

Music to my ears.

It's all centered, everything,
on Gauci's evidence.

They seem to have dismissed
pretty much everything else.

There's nothing here
about Robert Baer, PFLP-GC.

There's nothing whatsoever
about the timer fragment.

You're frustrated.

I'm happy for you,
of course, I am.

But there's nothing in here

that helps us discover
what did happen.

Nothing that gets us
closer to the truth.

You would say
one step at a time.

So, Jim, one step at a time.

I didn't think
I'd see you again.

So you left the Dumfries force?

Megrahi got his second appeal.

Second appeal?

Possible miscarriage of justice.

And the Crown
with a hell of a lot
of questions to answer.

Including one about
undisclosed secret documents

held at your police station.

I'll drive. You talk.

One of these documents
is a letter
from the King of Jordan

to the then Prime Minister
John Major,

intimating that the Libyans
were innocent of the crime.

It points the finger
at the PFLP-GC

and the bomb maker
Marwan Khreesat,

who is believed by many,

including and according
to Robert Baer

and most of the CIA,

to have built the bomb
that brought down Flight 103.

Now, these documents
were known to the Crown
during the trial,

and they withheld them
from the defense.

We're still not allowed
to see them.

So what are we talking
about here?

A cover up?

Was Megrahi framed?

Whatever it is,
they want to keep it buried.

It's mucky as hell.

So why are you
still standing here?

Go and talk to people
and find out what
they're not telling us.

Then write the bloody thing.

Jim, it's Murray.

Good to hear from you, Murray.

Wait till you hear
what I've got for you.

Front page?

Without a doubt.

What do you mean
we can't publish it?

- We want to...
- But you can't.

Phil Marsden, our lawyer.

Why the hell not?

We ran the story
past the FCO for comment.

I got a call back
threatening legal action.

You don't think
that's just scare tactics?

The Foreign Secretary
David Miliband,

has issued a public interest

immunity certificate, a PII.

For reasons
of national security.

To protect the contents
of certain documents.

These documents
your source is talking about

may well be the same ones

Megrahi's defense team
were denied access to

under that PII.

We're still going to
print it, right?

Publish and be damned
and all that.

You'll be damned,
and I'll be sued.

And your legal fees alone

will mean this newspaper
goes down.

I just don't get it.
The documents in that safe,

- they're over 20 years old.
- Makes no matter.

This is the long arm
of the state.

For national security,
read intelligence services, MI6,

CIA, who knows who else?

Protected like
they always are...

You said you'd publish it.

You phoned me up
and you told me
you'd publish it.

- Yeah, I know, but...
- No.

You have to take it
somewhere else.

Someone will print it.
Someone not afraid of them.

Not gonna do that.

Give it to me.

I will.

I'm not going to let them
get away with it.

This is serious.

You need to see sense.
You could be sued.

I could be sued.

You ever think
this might be
a lost cause, Jim?

That they will never
allow us to know the truth?

I never thought
I'd hear you say that.

I'm so sorry, but it's cancer.

Prostate cancer.

Will he survive?

I'm afraid I don't know
the answer to that.

I'm sorry.

How is he?

Thank you.

How're you doing?

Please, go sit down.

Okay.
I can do it.
I can do it.

You have been told?

Yes.

Is it?

Severe?

Yes. Yes, it is.

But I've had patients who fought
their cancer, who beat it.

And you, Baset,
you're a fighter.

I don't want to die here, Jim.

I don't want that either.

I don't want my family
to see me die here.

I want to go home to die.

Jim...

the UK and Libya are negotiating
a prisoner transfer agreement.

I heard.

I will be instructing
my Libyan lawyers

to make an application to...

return home and serve
whatever time I have left there.

And what about your appeal?

You think I would give it up?

If Prisoner Transfer
is granted,
you'll be in Libya.

Jim...

look, I have said
to you before,
I will say it again.

I will not go down in history
as a Lockerbie bomber.

I will not let them
do that to me.

I will never give up my appeal.

Whether I am here,
in Libya, dead or alive...

my appeal will go to court.

Trust me and you will get
what you want.

My name will be cleared,

and you will go on
and find out
who really did this.

McGILL:
Baset, I'm afraid
there's a problem.

Under Scottish law,

to be considered for a PT,

a prisoner can't have
an appeal ongoing.

You'd have to give it up.

Baset, there is another way.

You're released
on compassionate grounds.

You'll be examined
by three separate doctors

who will decide
how long you have to live.

And if it's less than
three months,

then there's a good possibility

that you will return home
and you can keep your appeal.

These are the options.

You must decide.

Well, we have beliefs
and values in Scotland

that those
who perpetrate crimes,

certainly
heinous atrocities
such as this,

should be brought to justice.

That has been done.

Equally, we recognize
that justice

has to be tempered by mercy.

That there has to be
the ability to recognize

that although he did not show
compassion to the victims,

that doesn't mean that we should

lower our beliefs or our values.

A campaign for
the release of the man

convicted of
the Lockerbie bombing
was launched today.

Justice for Megrahi
is appealing
for the early release

of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
on compassionate grounds.

I just think
it is absolutely wrong
to release someone

who has been imprisoned
based on evidence,

about his involvement
in such a horrendous crime.

I think this is
a very bad decision.

This man was convicted
of murdering 270 people.

Some claim economic influences

were key to the deal struck

by Tony Blair
and Colonel Gaddafi
on the potential release

of the Lockerbie bomber,
the so-called
"deal in the desert."

The fact that
Libyan oil reserves

are now understood

to be far greater than
they may have been

thought to have been in the past

shouldn't be overlooked.

Megrahi will continue
with his appeal,

and regardless of opinion
on his conviction,

that the Justice For
Megrahi campaign

urges the Scottish government
to send
Mr. Megrahi back to Libya

on compassionate grounds.

Jim, take it off.

Please.
Not here.
Not today.

I'm not ashamed.

I'll look them in the eye.

For us.

Do it for us.

John Michael Gerad Ahern.

Sarah Margaret Aicher.

John David Ackerstrom.

Ronald Ely Alexander.

Thomas Joseph Ammerman.

Bridget Concannon.

Thomas Concannon.

Roger Ellwood Hurst.

Elizabeth Sophie Ivell.

Andrew Alexander Teran.

Arva Anthony Thomas.

Jonathan Ryan Thomas.

Flora MacDonald Margaret Swire.

I don't know what
he thinks he's doing.

This should be
about remembrance,
not politics.

I can't believe he's here.

It's a disgrace.
He's befriended a killer.

Lovely to see you again.
Thank you...

I've got four of them now.

Four grandkids myself
actually. Yeah...

Is it Ellen?

Jane's spoken a lot about you.

Sorry. This is Jim, my husband.

Yes, I know.

Hello, Jim.

Look, I'm sorry, I think
we're running low
on hot water.

I'll see you shortly.

I'd like to go.

Everyone here agrees with me,
the world agrees.

Releasing Megrahi
would be insane,

immoral, reprehensible.

He has to serve his time
here in Scotland.

Then they can send his ashes
back to Libya in a casket.

Jim... Jim...

Can't you see it
from their point of view
for one second?

It is so completely irrational.

Oh, who are you to decide
what's rational
or irrational?

Maybe this appeal
isn't rational to them.

Maybe none of this is rational

to people who process
their grief
by moving forwards

rather than
scrambling around
in the past.

They're hurt and they're angry.

And completely fixated
on one man.

Not like you, then?

That's how they cope.

This is how you cope.

I am not coping.

Yes, of course.
You're doing this for Flora.

What you always say.

But it's not about
Flora anymore, Jim.

It's not even about him.

You have visitors.

You're just doing
anything you can
to avoid grieving.

That is simply not true.

Jim, you can't sit still.

You can't be silent
for one moment

to take in what happened to us.

If you did,
then you'd see the damage.

You're saying this is my fault?

No. I'm to blame, too.

But you're missing
everything, Jim.

We need you now
before it's too late.

Baset has promised me
he's committed
to fighting this.

Once his appeal is over,

we will find out
who really did this.