‘An article in yesterday's Canada Free Press points out that rewards, no matter how large, are pretty ineffective in bringing terrorist suspects to justice. “The U.S. Department of Justice, even after posting rewards, setting up hotlines, and issuing BOLOs (“Be-on-the-Lookout” alerts) has failed to issue criminal warrants for their arrest...”
‘The State Department's Rewards for Justice program website includes a curious request for tips related to those responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It doesn't explain why it's still looking for suspects. After all, Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi was sentenced to 27 years in prison after witnesses were offered money by the
‘A witness in the Lockerbie case has claimed he was offered $4 million (£2 million) by American investigators to lie to the trial judges.
‘Edwin Bollier, head of the Swiss company MEBO that was said to have manufactured the timer used to detonate the Pan Am bomb, claims he was offered the money by the FBI at its Washington HQ in exchange for making a statement that supported the main line of inquiry - that Libya was responsible for the bombing. "I rejected this and said this could not possibly be the case," he said. He added that there was a "loud dispute" after he rejected the offer. (The Scotsman)
‘Reportedly, the courts are poised to acknowledge that the conviction of Abdel Basit Ali Megrahi was a "miscarriage of justice," due in part to yet another offer of money - $2 million from the CIA - to a witness whose testimony was critical to the conviction of Megrahi, who maintains he is innocent.
‘Assuming that what appear to be the present facts are true and Megrahi is indeed freed means that Libya, which agreed to pay $10 million to each of the families of the Pan Am crash victims, is not guilty. That opens the possibility of a serious look for the real culprit who so criminally snuffed out 270 lives. Somebody is guilty of a heinous crime. But who? (WRMEA)
‘Who, indeed? Are Americans and others around the world safer because our government helps convict people who had little or nothing to do with terrorist attacks? Of course not. We are less safe because our watchdogs, under weak oversight, have grown fat and inept, unable to catch anything but the easiest prey. But, catch something they must. So, out come the checkbooks.
‘Whether the money buys truth or lies seemingly is irrelevant, and most Americans are never the wiser until another attack occurs. When one does, the bureaucrats and their enablers in Congress label it an "extraordinary" event; something that could happen to any mortal being, don't you know? And, then, it's business as usual until the next "failure of imagination" occurs. Are we a gullible people, or what?’
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