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The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

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  • 03-02-2021 1:40am
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    https://news.sky.com/story/lockerbie-bombing-family-heartbroken-after-appeal-against-abdelbasset-al-megrahis-conviction-rejected-12188404
    Al Meghari's lawyers have released a statement on behalf of his family, which said they were "left heartbroken by the decision of the Scottish courts".

    It said the family have instructed the legal team to appeal to the UK Supreme Court and lodge an application within 14 days.

    The statement added: "The family demand the release of secret evidence held by the UK government, which they believe incriminates others such as Iran and the Syrian-Palestinian group, the foreign secretary had refused to do so, this must happen for the truth to emerge."

    Earlier in 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, which it had mistaken for an Iranian fighter jet. Ayatollah Khomeini vowed that the skies would rain with American blood.

    There is a theory that the Iranian government got the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command to put the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 and that the UK and the US put the blame on the Gadaffi regime so that the Iranian and Syrian governments would not hinder the military response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

    One of the passengers of 103 was Flora Swire, whose father, Dr Jim Swire, believes that Megrahi was innocent.

    Dr Swire told the Channel 5 documentary series 'Conspiracy' that he no longer had any respect for the authorities of both the UK and the US. The legal academic who organised the trial of Megrahi, Professor Robert Black, told the same programme that the acceptance of an American monetary award by prosecution witness Tony Gauci puts a question mark on that witness's credibility.

    On that programme, there was reference to a break-in that took place, the night before the bombing, in the luggage area of Heathrow Airport that was alleged not to have been investigated properly.

    If the official story is true then why does Dr Swire believe that theory about the attack in which his daughter and 269 other people (including 11 on the ground in Lockerbie) were murdered?


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    ShatterAlan
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    political analyst wrote: »
    https://news.sky.com/story/lockerbie-bombing-family-heartbroken-after-appeal-against-abdelbasset-al-megrahis-conviction-rejected-12188404



    Earlier in 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, which it had mistaken for an Iranian fighter jet. Ayatollah Khomeini vowed that the skies would rain with American blood.

    There is a theory that the Iranian government got the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command to put the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 and that the UK and the US put the blame on the Gadaffi regime so that the Iranian and Syrian governments would not hinder the military response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

    One of the passengers of 103 was Flora Swire, whose father, Dr Jim Swire, believes that Megrahi was innocent.

    Dr Swire told the Channel 5 documentary series 'Conspiracy' that he no longer had any respect for the authorities of both the UK and the US. The legal academic who organised the trial of Megrahi, Professor Robert Black, told the same programme that the acceptance of an American monetary award by prosecution witness Tony Gauci puts a question mark on that witness's credibility.

    On that programme, there was reference to a break-in that took place, the night before the bombing, in the luggage area of Heathrow Airport that was alleged not to have been investigated properly.

    If the official story is true then why does Dr Swire believe that theory about the attack in which his daughter and 269 other people (including 11 on the ground in Lockerbie) were murdered?


    The Libyans had nothing to do with Lockerbie.


    And that has been proven.


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    political analyst wrote: »
    If the official story is true then why does Dr Swire believe that theory about the attack in which his daughter and 269 other people (including 11 on the ground in Lockerbie) were murdered?
    Presumably, because he doesn't think the official story is true.

    This isn't exactly news. There have been questions over the safety of Megrahi's conviction pretty much from the get-go - not so much because of rival theories about who might have done it instead as because of gaps and inconsistencies in the prosecution case.


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    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Presumably, because he doesn't think the official story is true.

    This isn't exactly news. There have been questions over the safety of Megrahi's conviction pretty much from the get-go - not so much because of rival theories about who might have done it instead as because of gaps and inconsistencies in the prosecution case.

    Of course I think the official story is true. I'm just trying to understand Dr Swire's reasons for not believing it.


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    Peregrinus
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    Well, he's written a book, which you can read if you want. I think he's made a film documentary as well.

    Thumbnail version: Swire supported the campaign to have Megrahi and others extradited from Libya and tried and, when that finally happened, he attended the trial. He thought the evidence presented did not justify the conviction of Megrahi and, as he looked into the matter further, he came to be convinced that Megrahi was innocent and supported his campaign for an appeal.


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    Of course I think the official story is true. I'm just trying to understand Dr Swire's reasons for not believing it.


    You might want to read John Pilger's take on it:


    http://johnpilger.com/articles/lockerbie-megrahi-was-framed


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    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    You might want to read John Pilger's take on it:


    http://johnpilger.com/articles/lockerbie-megrahi-was-framed

    What do you think of Pilger's claim that George HW Bush wanted to have Iran on side for the Gulf War and that he pinned the blame on Libya for its support of SaddaM?


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    ShatterAlan
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    What do you think of Pilger's claim that George HW Bush wanted to have Iran on side for the Gulf War and that he pinned the blame on Libya for its support of SaddaM?


    i'm not sure. Which Gulf War?


    The Iranians were instrumental and assisting the US in their fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, were they not?


    Would you believe a word that comes out of the mouth of a Bush family member.


    "Read my lips...no new taxes."


    "Not an inch further East" (referring to NATO after the reunification of West and East Germany).


    Bush is a sociopath (well, WAS). His CIA trained and installed Saddam Hussein to conduct an 8 year war against Iran after the Shah was deposed and Iran's oil wealth went back into the hands of the Iranian people.


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