A Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing over Scotland won the right on Thursday to launch a new appeal he said would prove his innocence. An independent review commission said it was referring the case of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to the Scottish High Court for appeal.
It said an inquiry lasting nearly four years had "identified six grounds where it believes that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred".
A Libyan official dealing with the Lockerbie issue said the decision to allow a new appeal would have "good consequences". Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of the bombing of a Pan Am flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people including 189 Americans - the deadliest attack on US civilians until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
"I reiterate today what I have been saying since I was first indicted in 1991: I was not involved in the Lockerbie bombing in any way whatsoever," Megrahi said in a statement from the prison near Glasgow where he is serving a life sentence.
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