ABSTRACT
Hans Kochler, a philosopher and expert on international law, was an ad hoc international observer, delegated by the UN Secretary-General, at the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal set up to try alleged conspirators in the Lockerbie bombing attack. It brought down a US civil, commercial passenger aircraft over Scotland while on a regularly scheduled international flight from London to New York. The Lockerbie bomb attack, in spite of some immediate after-attack speculation of links to the Iranian Airbus attack, seems to have been totally unrelated and without, in any case, any Iranian connection at the official, governmental level. The paradigm-model for any future tribunal having jurisdiction over war crimes must be the new International Criminal Court (ICC), created under the Rome Treaty. That court, with internal organization that were deemed necessary, politically, to the final adoption of the Rome Treaty, does not now fully accord with the above recommended guidelines.
