International observer mission of the President of the International Progress Organization, Dr. Hans Koechler, at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands ("Lockerbie Court")

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INTRODUCTION

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UNITED NATIONS AND I.P.O. DOCUMENTS Secretary-General welcomes United Kingdom invitation to send UN observers to trial of suspects in Lockerbie bombing (UN Press Release, 30 Oct. 1997) Security Council resolution 1192 (1998) Nomination of international observers by the Secretary-General of the United Nations United Nations news release on the appointment of international observers I.P.O. news releases Dr. Hans Koechler's report on the verdict passed by the Scottish Court Answer by Dr. Hans Koechler concerning misunderstandings and conflicting interpretations of his report Dr. Hans Koechler's report on the appeal proceedings at the Scottish Court Dr. Hans Koechler's statement on the agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom and Libya Information concerning the status of Prof. Hans Koechler as international observer Lockerbie revelations: statement by Dr. Hans Koechler on reports in the Scottish and British media Dr. Hans Koechler's statement on the controversy between Libya and the EU over  issues of criminal justice Dr. Hans Koechler's statement on the referral of the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi to the High Court of Justiciary Statement by Dr. Hans Koechler on a key witness's admission of perjury before the Lockerbie court Statement by Dr. Hans Koechler on the withholding of evidence by the British government Statement by Dr. Hans Koechler on the applicability of the intergovernmental agreement concerning a Scottish Trial in the Netherlands to appeal proceedings Statement by Dr. Hans Koechler on the new Lockerbie appeal and the right to a fair trial

Text of the Lockerbie judgements (Trial and Appeal) (2001, 2002) Referral of the case by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to the High Court of Justiciary (2007)   Appeal Court: Opinion of the Court in Petition for Recovery of Documents (2008)

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MEDIA COMMENTARIES AND DEBATES List of international debates and media coverage Petra News Agency, Amman, Jordan: مراقب دولي: محاكمة لوكربي غير عادلة Debate of Dr. Koechler's report in the British Parliament (2001) Debate on question of jurisdiction in the British Parliament (2002) Private Eye, Special Report, London: "Lockerbie: the Flight from Justice" Alexander Cockburn: "Foreign Devil" William Paul: "Unfair, incomprehensible, irrational and arbitrary" Edward S. Herman: "The New World Order Rule Of Injustice" Al-Ahram Hebdo: "Le verdict est le résultat d'influences politiques" BBC NEWS: "Lockerbie verdict 'politically influenced'" BBC NEWS: "UN monitor decries Lockerbie judgement" Statement by  Tam Dalyell, MP in the House of Commons Dr. Jim Swire: "Should we doubt the Zeist verdicts?" Alex Ionides: "The Lockerbie Precedent" The Mail on Sunday, London: "Lockerbie bomber 'was convicted by planted evidence'" The Scotsman, Edinburgh: "Former police chief says Lockerbie evidence faked" T. H. Ford: "Why Only Silence Over The Lockerbie Frame-up" Manila Bulletin: "New evidence disputes Libyan responsibility in PanAm flight 103 blast" The Herald, Glasgow: "Distasteful political fix" The Times, London: "It's time to look again at Lockerbie" Sunday Express, London: "The Lockerbie 'cover-up'" The Mail on Sunday, London: "New investigation points to Lockerbie bomber retrial" Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh: "Lockerbie retrial demand over new evidence" Daily Mail, London: "New evidence that could set free the Lockerbie bomber" The Herald, Glasgow: "How trial of the century ended as our worst embarrassment" The Observer, London: "Revealed: Lockerbie 'bomber' could go free" The Sunday Times, London: "Lockerbie police face 'plot' inquiry" The Scotsman, Edinburgh: "UN Lockerbie trial observer urges independent inquiry" Time Magazine, USA: "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy" Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Cologne, Germany: "Neues zu Lockerbie" The Firm, Glasgow: "Lockerbie: Attack or trick?" Le Pays, Burkina Faso: "Attentat de Lockerbie - la vérité a-t-elle rattrapé le mensonge?" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: "Lockerbie-Attentat: Explosiver Widerruf" Gulf News, Dubai: "Was Libya framed for Lockerbie bombing?" جريدة الراية  (Al-Rayah), Doha, Qatar:  "اعترافات المهندس السويسري تقلب قضية لوكربي رأساً علي عقب " Le Figaro, Paris: "Lockerbie : et si la Libye était innocente ..." Edward S. Herman: "The New York Times on the Libya-Pan Am 103 Case: A Study in Propaganda Service" The Sunday Times, London, UK:  "UN observer says Scots law is flawed" Congressional Quarterly, Washington DC, USA: "Libya May Escape Final Judgment in Pan-Am 103 Case" Financial Times, London, UK: "Libya jail swap deal clears way for BP project" Sunday Express, London, UK: "Secret file points to 'cover-up'" Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, Scotland: "Truth revealed on Lockerbie bomb timer" The Sunday Times, London: "Lockerbie bomber hearing 'flawed'"

INTERNATIONAL LAW ISSUES/ DOCUMENTATION   I.P.O. Committee of Legal Experts on U.N. Sanctions against Libya Security Council resolutions on the Lockerbie dispute Resolution of the Organization of African Unity Memorandum from the President of the I.P.O. to the President of the Security Council (1992) Statement on Security Council resolution 1192 (1998) Judgement of the International Court of Justice of 27 February 1998 Agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands concerning a Scottish Trial in the Netherlands (18 September 1998) UN General Assembly: Statement of the Libyan Foreign Minister on the Lockerbie case (2001) Debate on international aspects of the Lockerbie case in the British Parliament OAU Summit 2002: Report of the Commission of Jurists on the Lockerbie Case United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Memorandum Opinion and Order,  1 February 2007 "The Preclusive Effect of the Lockerbie Criminal Convictions" by Roger Alford (2007) The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History The Lockerbie case: Documentation in Arabic L'affaire de Lockerbie devant la Justice écossaise by William Woll (French) Pan Am Flight 103 (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia) Alternative theories of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 (Wikipedia) Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial (Wikipedia) Investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 (Wikipedia) Hans Köchler's Lockerbie trial observer mission (Wikipedia) "Shadow over Lockerbie. The Issue of Evidence in Terrorism Cases" by C. Berg and F. R. Balbin "Flight into Darkness" (Film documentary by Al-Jazeera International) "Key Lockerbie Witness Admits to Perjury" by Ludwig De Braeckeleer "Lockerbie Appeal: Fragment of the imagination?" (Private Eye, October 2007) "Dealing with a 'Rogue State': the Libya Precedent" (American Journal of International Law, Vol. 101, No. 3, 2007) Petition to the British Prime Minister to support calls for a United Nations Inquiry into the death of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing "Politics and justice: the Lockerbie trial": ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) "Arab Ministerial Council Demands Release of Documents in the Libyan Citizen Case" (Resolution of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers, 29 March 2008)

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BOOKS RELATED TO THE I.P.O. OBSERVER MISSION The Lockerbie Trial. Documents Related to the I.P.O. Observer Mission Global Justice or Global Revenge? International Criminal Justice at the Crossroads Lockerbie and Libya. A Study in International Relations

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