Thursday, 4 September 2008
Dr Swire's response to Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi
The Bromsgrove Advertiser (the local newspaper for the area in which he used to practise) has an article on Dr Jim Swire's response to the contention by Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi that the relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie disaster were "greedy" in their compensation claims. The article is largely based on the contents of Dr Swire's letter in The Herald on 29 August 2008. The article, which can be read here, erroneously states that Dr Swire now lives in Glasgow. He still lives in England, but spends a considerable amount of time at his house on the Isle of Skye.
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Kadhafi son brands Lockerbie victims' families 'greedy'
ReplyDeleteCommentary by Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd
With respect to the Lockerbie victims Families group (PanAm 103 aircrash).
And compassion for the Libyan political hostage and 'Lockerbie victim 271' Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, suffering since April
6th, 1999 until now painful years, innocent in scottish prisons...
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Introduction:
UN- Press Release 09.09.2003
SC/7866
Security Council
4820th Meeting (PM)
Text excerpt:
Speaking before that decision was taken, the Council President, Emyr Jones Parry (United Kingdom), said that the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 had been an appalling act, which caused terrible pain to the friends and families of the victims, many of whom were present in the Council chamber today.
The Council was now moving towards resolution of that terrible affair, he continued. Libya had accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials, renounced terrorism and arranged for payment of appropriate compensation for the families of the victims.
It had also expressed its commitment to cooperate with any further requests for information in connection with the investigation. All those were substantial gains, which could allow Libya to move back into the international community and bring the Council closer to lifting the sanctions.
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Letter dated 15 August 2003 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council.
In a context and out of respect for international law and pursuant to the Security Council resolutions, Libya as a sovereign State:
Text excerpt:
• Has cooperated with the Scottish investigating authorities before and to cooperate in good faith with any further requests for information in connection with the Pan Am 103 investigation during the trial and pledges. Such cooperation would be extended in good faith through the usual channels.
• Has facilitated the bringing to justice of the two suspects charged with the bombing of Pan Am 103 and accepts responsibility for the actions of its officials.
• Has arranged for the payment of appropriate compensation. To that end, a special fund has been established and instructions have already been issued to transmit the necessary sums to an agreed escrow account within a matter of days.
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August 2008: Saif El Islam Gadaffi say: "We 'played with words' to stop Lockerbie sanctions."
Son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi said that the Libyan government had only claimed responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in order to normalize ties with the West and get international sanctions lifted. "Yes, we wrote a letter to the Security Council saying we are responsible for the acts of our employees... but it doesn't mean that we did it in fact," Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"I admit that we played with words - we had to. What can you do? Without writing that letter we would not be able to get rid of sanctions," said Saif al-Islam, who took a central role in the talks to end Libya's isolation.
Saif el Islam say: "I think they (the families) were very greedy and they were trading with the blood of their sons and daughters," he said.
"The position with them, it was very terrible and it was very materialistic and it was very greedy and they were asking for money and more money and more money and more money.
"And they were talking just about money. Money money money money."
Why Libya pays?:
After an extensive FBI investigation, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and Khalifa Fhima was eventually handed over by Libya to stand trial under Scottish law in a third country - the Netherlands, (Kamp van Zeist)
Co-accused Khalifa Fhimah was acquitted while Al Megrahi was found guilty on Jannuary 31, 2001, of mass murder (270 killed) and is serving a life sentence (27 years) in Greenock prison at Glasgow in Scotland. Mr Megrahi and protests till today his innocence.
The black mailing compensation from Libya:
Libya have to pay up to US$2.7 billion to settle the doubtfull claims by the families of the 270 killed in the Lockerbie bombing, representing US$10 million per family. The Libyan offer was that:
40% of the money would be released when United Nations sanctions, suspended in 1999, were cancelled;
another 40% when U.S. trade sanctions were lifted; and
the final 20% when the U.S. State Department removed Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism.
The truth is, Libya pays under blackmail only for:
> to move back into the international community and bring the UN Council closer to lifting the sanctions.
> Regain full diplomatic and economic status. This would allow US oil companies to negotiate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of contracts, to drill the state's oilfields.
The evidence was controversial and many people - including some relatives of Lockerbie victims - felt Al Megrahi didn't get a fair trial. Last year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) concluded that the Libyan may have suffered a miscarriage of justice and granted him a second appeal against his conviction.
After clear discharge proves is clear for Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd in Switzerland, Libya and his official Abdelbaset Al Megrahi were deliberately entangled with the bombing of PanAm 103 by the manipulated piece of evidence MST-13 timer fragment (PT-35B).
No doubt, Libya and Mr Megrahi have nothing to do with the Lockerbie-Tragedy!
Also the Scottish police had information that might have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial, a BBC TV programme has learned.
The information could have affected the credibility of key evidence, the manipulated MEBO MST-13 Timer-Fragment, was not from a timer delivered to Libya! The most logical possibility is that the bombing-story 'PanAm-103' was specifically constructed to blame Libya.
The truth will confirm it on, the official Libya's, Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, was the victims no.271 in the 'Lockerbie Affair'...
Very little has been said about the suffering of the Libyan people during the years of sanctions. How many died because of lack of medical supplies or hospital equipment?
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Some of the Lockerbie victims Families (PanAm 103 aircrash)
say the cordial and truth words:
It is to be believed absolutely that all relatives of the victims of Flight PanAm-103 would gladly repay any 'compensation' money from Libya if he could just have our loved ones back.
To the memory:
The trial under Scottish law, the accused Mr Al Megrahi was found guilty on Jannuary 31, 2001, of mass murder (270 killed) and is serving a life sentence (27 years) in Greenock prison at Glasgow in Scotland. Mr Megrahi and protests till today his innocence.
The Scottish judicial review commission (SCCRC) came across important relieve-evidence (some that was available to prosecutors but not the defense during Megrahi's trial) suggesting that the Libyan was framed and the the legal judgement was in all probability a miscariage of justice!
Entitled question for the Lockerbie victims Families group (PanAm 103 aircrash)?:
Which will happened with the 'compensation' money of US$ 2,7 billion from Libya Foundation, if Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, of the same Scottish jurisdiction, as innocent revived?
I believe that the entire world population then expected, that then the unauthorized received 'compensation' will pay back to the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, Saif el Islam Gaddafi.
The reproach would be then incorrect that the survivors are greedy and have required on the back of their victims blood money.
by Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd