On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 03:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
John B wrote:
On Oct 9, 10:08=A0am, wrote:
"Norman Wells" wrote:
I don't think you can quite tar Dr Jim Squires with that brush. =A0He pr=
obably
knows more about the Lockerbie disaster than anyone else, having lost hi=
s
daughter in it, and having followed every nuance of the matter from day =
one.
He is convinced 100% that Megrahi was innocent, and I for one think he's
hardly likely to be wrong.

With all due respect to the man - having a death in the family doesn't
turn you an expert into what caused the death. He may well have followed
the case in detail but unless he's privvy to confidential intelligence
documents that other members of the press and public are not then he has
no greater insight than anyone else - just opinion.

No, the point is that he's spent years of his life researching the
documents, whereas you, most members of the press, and most members of

I doubt he has a greater insight than the people who wrote the documents
in the first place and I'm pretty sure the judges in the trial did more than
just skim them.

B2003