Here is an excerpt from an article published in yesterday's edition of The Jerusalem Post:
'Megrahi, who has always denied involvement, lost an appeal against his conviction in 2002, and was only given leave to mount a second appeal in June 2007. A Scottish legal review commission found six potential grounds for a miscarriage of justice, including flaws in the process by which he was identified and, reportedly, the non-disclosure of a classified report on the timer purportedly used in the bomb. The commission referred the case back to the Scottish courts.
'The overturning of Megrahi's conviction could revive the bombing investigators' original theory, widely believed by many of those close to the case, that Lockerbie was not a Libyan plot at all, but was, rather, carried out by Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, on behalf of Iran.
'Among the leading figures who publicly voiced this assertion was then trade minister Ariel Sharon, who told a press conference in Madrid seven weeks after the bombing, "Israel believes it was Ahmed Jibril."
'The spokesman for the Lockerbie victims' families, the UN's observer on the case and the Scottish law professor who formulated the legal framework under which Megrahi was tried all said they were convinced the conviction will be overturned.'
This extract comes from Aangirfan. It's interesting that suddenly now Iran's getting the blame.
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2. Reportedly Ahmed Jibril (founder and leader of the PFLP-GC) had a base near Frankfort.
Reportedly, Jibril had links to alleged drugs dealer al-Kassar, who allegedly was working with the CIA in smuggling drugs into the USA on PanAm flights.
Reportedly the maker of the Lockerbie bomb was Marwan Kreesat (Khreeshat). Bomb maker Marwan Abdel Razzack Khreesat was part of Jibril’s cell.
On 26 October 1988, Khreesat was arrested and one of his bombs seized.
Then Khreesat was mysteriously released. [1009]
Former CIA agent Oswald Le Winter stated, "…pressure had come from Bonn… from the U.S. Embassy in Bonn… to release Khreesat." [1010]
Reportedly, Khreesat worked for U.S. intelligence. [1011]
Allegedly, one of Khreesat's bombs was used to bring down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Ruth, the problem with Khreesat's bombs is that they had a barometric trigger (which would detonate according to the aircraft's altitude).
ReplyDeleteIf one of his bombs was used to bring down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, it must have been loaded on board the aircraft at London's Heathrow airport. Otherwise, if loaded at Luqa airport in Malta - as alleged at the trial - the bomb would have exploded even before the aircraft got to Frankfurt.
As I have said on previous occasions, the simplest explanation is that apartheid South Africa must be responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. The apartheid regime had ample means, motive and opportunity to carry out the crime.
A wealth of circumstantial evidence to incriminate South Africa is set out in great detail here: http://e-zeecon.blogspot.com/2008/11/lockerbie-propositions.html
Patrick Luqa Airport is the most unlikely of the three possible entry points for the bomb. Why? It was the only airport where a bag count was completed.
ReplyDeleteAs for the barometric trigger theory.......a combination of both time and barometric trigger could have been used. We now know the mebo fragment produced at trial was never on board Pan Am 103. How much of the other forensic work was also fabricated?
I believe Kreesat most likely made the bomb and warned his intelligence handlers (at least Jordanian and possibly US)of this and they failed to stop (or maybe even locate) the device. Hence the cover up as that would be mightly embarrassing.
There are far simpler ways to kill Bernt Carlsson than bombing a jet full of innocent people. The police dismissed the theory almost immediately on the information of a librarian. He was certainly the most high profile casualty but not the target....