Star witness in Lockerbie case was paid millions by US

There's a new book out about the Lockerbie bombing that pretty much demolishes the case against the late al-Megrahi.

John Ashton was a member of al-Megrahi's defense team. He writes at  Mail Online today that he's convinced of his client's innocence, and he makes a compelling case.

Just because a star witness pocketed millions doesn't mean they were lying, of course. But it does provide them with a motive other than their unvarnished love for truth and justice.

And if al-Magrahi was framed, so was Gadaffi and the Libyan nation. Ashton makes the case that the Pan Am Flight 103 plot was hatched in Iran in retaliation for the US shooting down a civilian Iranian airliner, an incident that the Iranians naturally enough viewed as an unprovoked terror attack.

Gadaffi eventually paid a multi-billion dollar settlement in the Lockerbie case as part of a deal to normalize relations with Britain, who in turn got all compassionate with al-Megrahi to secure favor in Libya's oil fields, and the Iranians got a free pass because we needed them to intercede on behalf on some hostages being held in Lebanon.

Not hard to see how truth and justice might get lost in such a convoluted tale.