Saturday 1 November 2008
Briefing on the U.S-Libya Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement
The press briefing by C David Welch, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, given on the occasion of the final payment by Libya into the compensation fund for US and Libyan victims of actions by the other party (including the Lockerbie disaster) can be read here.
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With respect to the Lockerbie victim's families group (PanAm 103 aircrash).
ReplyDeleteAnd compassion for the Libyan political hostage and 'Lockerbie victim 271' Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, suffering since April 6th, 1999 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:
> to move back into the international community and bring the UN Council closer to lifting the sanctions.
> to 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.
According to the investigations and clear proves from 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 program 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.
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The truth will confirm it: the official Libya's, Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, was the victim 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 a lack of medical supplies or hospital equipment?
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The Lockerbie victims Families group (PanAm 103 aircrash)
They say the cordial 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 they could just have their loved ones back.
To the memory:
The trial under Scottish law accused Mr. Al Megrahi guilty of mass murder (270 killed) on Jannuary 31 2001, and is serving life sentence (27 years) in Greenock prison in Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Megrahi protests till today his innocence.
Entitled question for the Lockerbie victims Families group (PanAm 103 aircrash):
What will happen with the "compensation" money of US$ 2,7 billion from Libya Foundation, if Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, of the same Scottish jurisdiction, is plaid innocent?
"I believe that the entire world population then expects that the unauthorized received 'compensation' should be paid back to the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
The reproach would be then incorrect that the survivors are greedy and have required blood money on the back of their victims."
The revision of the wrong judgement against the Libyan Official Abdelbaset al Megrahi in the Lockerbie-case must first of all start with the rejection of the former line of argumentation concerning the manipulated fragment of a MST-13 timer (PT/35) by the Scottish Justice.
Reason: the first implication of Libya with the PanAm 103 bombing was based only on the wrong conclusion at Kamp van Zeist and its first appeal that the decisive piece of evidence, the manipulated fragment of a MST-13 timer, did originate from a timer delivered to Libya.
Based on this wrong conclusion was the attempt to involve Mr Megrahi into the crime by very questionable and wrong evidence from Malta. The affidavit of Ex-MEBO engineer Ulrich Lumpert from the 18th of July 2007 and his live declaration on ITV (August, 2008) in assistance of Dr. Jim Swire should make the appeal-court sit up and take notice ...
The truth at the High Court in Edinburgh will bring it shortly to the day … We require that Mr Marquise appears at the High Court in Edinburgh as a witness.
Edwin Bollier thanks for all important documents.
Today I believe that these decisive documents which are needed for the reversal of this politically motivated miscarriage of Judgement have been passed to me on purpose. With these reports one can doubtlessly exclude the MST-13 Timer and the transfer of a bomb bag from AirMalta Flight KM-180 to PanAm 103/A in Frankfurt.
Therefore the constructed chain of evidence from Malta-Frankfurt-London, as presumed in the Lockerbie trial, is absolutely untenable.
Today with BKA documents it can be proved beyond all doubt that on the 21th of December 1988 no "bomb bag" was loaded on AirMalta, flight KM-180 at Luqa airport and therefore none "Malta-bag" was transfered in Frankfurt on PanAm 103/A to Heathrow. The "Lockerbie-Case" was a miscarriage of Scottish Justice, because the court did not consider all the available exonerate evidence.
The alleged "bomb-bag", tray no. (B-8849) was not a inter-line bag from AirMalta (KM-180). This bag was a normal on-line bag, wrong coded as inter-line bag from Berlin-Tegel, flight PanAm, PA-643, and was checked out at London-Heathrow, from passenger no. 131, Wagenführ W.
Thus it is secured, that bag was not transfered on the main flight PA-103 to New York!
Therefore the security observation visit, of Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, alias Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad, to Malta (ordered by his chief Mr. Ibrahim El Bishari) from the 20th to the 21th of December 1988, and his alleged infiltration of a "bomb bag" has no probative force any more!
The de-conspiracy of the conspiracy against Libya can begin…
Today we can prospect that a appeal of the Lockerbie trial with all the proved, exonerating evidence is leading to freedom for Megrahi and to the reestablishment of Libya's honour.
We wish Mr Abdulbaset Al Megrahi to get healthy and free soon and ask for ALLAH'S assistance, ... ALLAHU AKBAR ...
With our conviction Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier,
MEBO Ltd. Zurich/Switzerland
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