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>Tuesday, 28 November, 2000: Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, one of the two Libyans
>accused of planting the bomb that exploded on board a Pan Am aeroplane over
>Lockerbie in 1988, could go free this week if his lawyer can show there is
>insufficient evidence to sustain his trial. As the seven month-long hearing
>resumes Tuesday at the special Scottish court in the Netherlands, lawyer
>Richard Keen was expected to ask the panel of judges to throw out the charges
>against Fhimah on the grounds that there is no case to answer. If the court
>accepts the plea, Fhimah would be acquitted and released. His co-accused,
>Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, was not expected to make a similar submission,
>but his lawyer has said he also intends to mount a vigorous defence. After the
>prosecution concluded its case last Tuesday, legal experts following the trial
>said the evidence against the two Libyans was mainly circumstantial and
>unlikely to secure convictions. "There is a wide gap at the centre of the
>prosecution. The whole case is dependent on proving that the bomb started in
>Malta and they haven't proved that," said Robert Black of Edinburgh
>University. AFP
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