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NYPOST
PAN AM BOMBER HIRES DERSHOWITZ FOR APPEAL
By NILES LATHEM
August 9, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz has signed on
with an international legal team working to overturn the conviction of a
Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The move sparked outrage from the families of the 270 people who were
killed when the jumbo jet was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie,
Scotland.
The high-profile Harvard law professor said he has been retained by a
British law firm handling the appeal of terrorist Abdel Basset al-Megrahi,
who was convicted of the mass murder earlier this year by a Scottish court
convened in the Netherlands.
Dershowitz, who is active in Jewish causes and outspoken on the need for
the United States to do more to fight terrorism, said he became convinced
after being asked to review the trial record "that the wrong man may have
been convicted."
Dershowitz's decision to help the Libyan government-backed legal team has
angered some of the victims' families who believe strongman Moammar Khadafy
will use him for propaganda purposes.
"Who is paying for all of this legal talent? I doubt they are holding bake
sales in Tripoli," said New Jersey resident Susan Cohen, whose daughter
died on the Boeing 747.
"He's an expert in American law, not Scottish law, and so I think the real
reason the Libyans want him is to go on TV and spread doubt in the minds of
the American public about this case," Cohen added.
Dershowitz, insisting that he shares Cohen's feelings about Khadafy, said
he does not believe he is representing the Libyan government, and added
that his fees will be donated to Jewish charities in the Boston area.
"This is one of the worst crimes in history, and whoever did it belongs in
prison for the rest of his life," he said.
"But if this was a death-penalty case in Texas, civil libertarians would be
up in arms over the conviction of a man on the basis of very questionable
eyewitness testimony."
Megrahi was one of two Libyan intelligence agents brought to trial in Camp
Zeist in the Netherlands.
Evidence in the trial, largely collected by the FBI, linked him to the
placement of a radio boombox in a suitcase in Malta that eventually found
its way onto the doomed London-to-New York flight.
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