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Lockerbie bomber released!...Dead 3 years later.
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20-08-2009 12:45pm#1
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Genghiz Cohen wrote: »Buy a gun OP, take the law into your own hands.
Be sure to kill yourself after you do the deed.
And... good luck.
He doesn't need to buy one!
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If any of you know anyone who was in the same stages of Cancer knows the idea of "Comform" is a nonsense.
The man is in constant pain.
He'll now be in a Libyan hospital rather than a Scottish one - So what?
He's dying, hes a shell. He paid the price so that Gaddaffi could trade with the west. Now he's dying.
None of the above would have been thinkable had Gaddaffi not sent his sacrificial lambs to that Scottish trial.0 -
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post taken from a retired BA747 pilot the american familys are baying for blood compared to there uk counterparts who want another trial as think the conviction is unsafe.(like birmingham 6&guildford 4)
It is entirely possible that he is innocent or perhaps was only a very lowly operative in the whole affair. There are some very plausible accounts from a retired CIA agent, Robert Baer, (see Bruce Wayne above), that show there is reasonable doubt over his conviction.
From my own experience (I was in British Airways flying B747s at the time) I offer the following thoughts. The Iranian Airbus was shot down by the USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. Only a few weeks before that date it had nearly shot down a BA B747 while it was descending into Dubai. The subsequent internal BA investigation showed that the US Navy’s knowledge of civil traffic over The Gulf was marginal to say the least. And accounts I have read at the time, and since, indicate that the commander of the USS Vincennes was rather trigger happy.
Pan Am 103 was blown up not long after on 21 December 1988. When accident investigators from the UK AAIB in Farnborough started to piece together fragments of wreckage, they were able to trace exactly where the explosion occurred in the hold by plotting the paths of fragments of the bomb and suitcases through the luggage and aircraft structure. And they were able to prove which suitcase the bomb was in. They were also able to show that the explosive had been in a Toshiba radio similar to one that had been seized in a German police raid on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). I had the opportunity to go to Farnborough and discuss some of this at the time. Thus, all the indications were that it had probably been a revenge attack either by the Iranians or by thePFLP-GC on their behalf.
Two years later, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the problem that faced the USA was that, even though they had a UN mandate to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, they needed to build support in the Arab world (something George W Bush singularly failed even to try to do in 2003). However, his father was a much better diplomat and succeeded in putting together a wide coalition of forces. However, the PFLP-GC was backed by Syria, and Bush senior needed as many Arab states on side as possible in his developing coalition. He also needed to keep Iran out of the conflict if possible. If you remember, Iraq had invaded Iran in 1980 and the ensuing war had continued until September 1988. So there was good reason to believe that Iran might have seen this as another opportunity to gain revenge during a time when US/Iran relations were still poisonous in the extreme.
Suddenly, somewhere around the autumn of 1990, the focus of attention in the Pan Am 103 investigation shifted fairly publically from Iran, the PFLP-GC and Syria…..to Libya. I was suspicious at the time about this decision and still am. I am sure the change was made in order to get Syria on side (they became part of the coalition against Saddam) and it may also have helped to keep Iran from meddling. In retrospect, in the overall scheme of things, it may even have been a price worth paying to get Iraq out of Kuwait. At that time, Libya had supported, and was still supporting, Middle East terrorism and had been responsible for a number of attacks on western interests, so it was an easy scapegoat. And everyone was worried because no-one knew how far Saddam would go, possibly even continuing with an attack on Saudi Arabia.
I am an old cynic and normally believe in ‘cock-up’ rather than conspiracy, but in this case I have to say that I reluctantly suspect a conspiracy. While the facts concerning the explosion and the forensic evidence from the remains of the B747 are sound, the evidence that convicted al-Megrahi was circumstantial and tenuous in the extreme. It would not have been difficult somewhere along the line for government agents to ‘manipulate’ some of the evidence that linked Malta and al-Megrahi to this terrorist act. Perhaps that is why it is more convenient to release al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds rather than to hear an appeal against his conviction. I have no difficulty with letting him go but I would dearly like to see another investigation into the whole affair
It is entirely possible that he is innocent or perhaps was only a very lowly operative in the whole affair. There are some very plausible accounts from a retired CIA agent, Robert Baer, (see Bruce Wayne above), that show there is reasonable doubt over his conviction. 0 -
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