This is the title of a lengthy post on Ed's Blog City which takes the line that Pan Am flight 103 was probably a revenge attack for the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The article links the official stonewalling over Lockerbie to the Shirley McKie case. It also points out the involvement in Lockerbie of various notorious (some might say murky) characters on the US intelligence scene.
The post can be read here.
There is one very small error in the Ed's Blog City posting and in the original posting from David Thomson from which Ed's posting derives. Both say that the Iran Air civil flight shot down by the USs Vincennes had the flight number IA 655. The correct flight number is IR 655. IR is the IATA designation for Iran Air, IA is the designation for Iraqi Airways. Such a tiny error would be insignificant were it not for the fact that some researchers and journalists have propagated the error and the IA designator features in some of the important Lockerbie literature. In time, it is just possible that it could become undertood that an Iraqi plane had been shot down which would put a whole different slant on the case.
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