Megrahi’s tale is a tissue of lies
The FBI agent who investigated Lockerbie says those who want the Libyan freed are mistaken
So run the heading and sub-heading over an article by retired FBI agent Richard Marquise in today's edition of The Sunday Times. It rehearses the evidence that led to Abdelbaset Megrahi's conviction by the Scottish Court at Zeist in January 2001. For an analysis of the flaws in that evidence (which have, of course, been recognised by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission), see my article "Lockerbie: a satisfactory process but a flawed result".
Those with a vested interest in defending Megrahi's conviction seem to be getting worried. And so they should be.
Mr. Richard Marquise presents a somewhat flawed position in his article in the Sunday Times.
ReplyDeleteAs Professor Black has detailed in several comments, articles and sicussions over the actual trial and the evidence adduced therein the case against both Megrahi and Fimah WAS ENTIRELY BASED ON CIRCUMSTNACE.
For the first 12 years of the case, journalists were subjected to an incessant series of leaks, nudges and 'winks' that said "we've got a 'supergrass' who is going to 'finger' the Libyans!"
I invite readers to read the transcript of the trial pertaining the evidence of Abdul Majid/Giaka.
Rather than being a 'supergrass' he turned out to be a fantasist and a CIA 'reject'! Their Lordships paid scant attention to his claims in evidence (See 82 page judgement document. Majid/Giaka is beleived to be living under the Federal Witness Protection Program and has cost the US Taxpayers several million dollars.
The FIRST FBI officer who claimed to have 'solved' the case was the then 'legendary'head of the FBI Explosives laboratory subsequently so discredited by an Inspector-General's International Commission of Inquiry (Convened after major allegations made by an insider 'whistle-blower') that he was NOT called as a witness at the trial at Zeist.
Then we had the example of the then Director of the Bureau, the 'Honourable' Judge Sessions...who was extremely 'economic with his comments' during a visit and lecture to Glasgow after the bombing and who thereafter was required to resign from office for 'abuse of his position'.
There can be NO DOUBT in Mr. Marquise's reasons for his present campaign. He's written to relatives, he's assisted in at least two documentaries preserving the myth of the 'official version'.
As head of the FBI Scotbom squad, I;d be much more interested, fascinated even, to hear his explanation as to why:
1: No-one has been identified as to the un-authorised removal of a suitcase from the scene within hours of the bombing and therefter retuned to the scene (EMPTY) the next day.
2: Why,despite the deployment of hundreds of FBI agents, special agents and senior supervisory special agents AND the expenditures of MILLIONS of dollars the legendary Bureau FAILED to find conclusive evidence to prove 'beyond reasonable doubt' the guilt of the accused.
3: Who (Exactly) were the 'mysterious Anericans' who were referred to on many opccasions during the trial evidence - as head of the Scotbom squad, surely Mr. Marquise SHOULD know who they were, what they were doing and on whose order they were acting?
4: If this is the case, and the 'official version' is so accurate and compelling, what possible reason has Mr. Marquise for NOT confirming the exact details.
5: GIven that Mr.Marquise has recently retired from the Bureau, has written a book supporting and justifying the 'official version', written letters to all and sundry proclaiming the absolute justness of the investigation and the verdict and taken partin the making of several documentaries supporting the 'official version - why has refrained from commenting on the somple fact 'in law' that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, following nearly three years of intense, impartial and dedicated exmaination and investigation have found no fewer than SIX grounds to refer the case back for appeal!
6: On a point of information: Mr. Richard Marquise, shortly after the conclusion of the trial and the dismissal of the first appeal received (along with others involved in the case) an extremnely prestigious 'Merit Award from the Attorney-General of the United States and the Department of Justice.
There can be absolutely NO DOUBT that Mr. Marquise has a seriously vested interest in maintaining the'official version' - He and many others have built career reputations over the past 20 years... reputations which will be shattered when Megrahi is released after a successful second appeal.
Mr. Marquise also insults ourt intelligence when he describes people as 'Megrahi supporters'...when in fact they actually support ANYONE who has been a victim of a serious maladministration of justice.
The history of recent US justice is littered with cases of wrongful conviction at the hands of improper conduct by the FBI. The worse excesses of the founding Director, J Edgar Hoover have changed from 'legend' to proven fact...plus ca change...as they say...TIME WILL TELL.
Which role played Ex-FBI Special Agent Richard Marquise in the "Lockerbie-Affair"?
ReplyDeleteThe book "SCOTBOM: Evidence and the Lockerbie Investigation", written by the former special agent of the task Force FBI/CIA for the (PanAm 103) investigation, Richard. A. Marquise, is not based on technical expertise, but a detective story, spicked with purposeful lies and full of untruth!
Its purposeful intentions are clear: With wrong and manipulated evidence the truth in the PanAm 103crash was covered at the damage of Libya and its official Abdelbaset Al Megrahi.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland
Assistance call for the the Arab League and all technically and scientifically trained attorneys in favour of Muslim victim of Justice, Mr. Abdelbasset Al Megrahi:
ReplyDeleteThis is a cry for help and an appeal to all lawyers to engage in helping to uncover the largest miscarriage of justice in the Scottish history.
The political hostage and "Lockerbie victim 271", Mr Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, is suffering since April 6th, 1999 until now >330' 932' 900 painful seconds innocent in Scottish prisons …
The SCCRC is in possession of all the indication material listed at the bottom of this document. What is preventing the Scottish Justice since 9 years to clear up the miscarriage of Justice against Libya and Mr. Abdelbasset Al Megrahi?
Because of a careless investigation and manipulated evidence Mr Megrahi was sentenced to 27 years in prison on January 31, 2001 by a panel of three Scottish judges for murder of 270 people.
Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland, expose today the true facts:
The Crown's jugdgement was based on manipulated circumstantial evidence saying that Mr. Megrahi had smuggled in a "Bomb-Bag" on Air Malta, flight KM-180. This was a deliberate wrong assumption by the Scottish Justice with the known fatal consequences for the Libyan Official Mr. Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi and Libya ...
The alleged "BOMB-BAG" on AirMalta was a PHANTOM!
See below MEBO's proofs, free of doubts, for specialists:
Fatal consequences for Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi because of a Phantom Bomb-Bag from Malta !
Trial Day 38, July 21, 2000, Kamp van Zeist:
Mr. Gunther Kasteleiner was a traffic assistant at the baggage handling central station FAG in Frankfurt. As witness no. 799 at the trial in Kamp van Zeist he gave a wrong testimony about the 25transfer baggages on flight PA-103/A. The question from Q was, how many items inter-line baggage are recorded?--
Kasteleiner, sworn (original): A- Yes. That's 25 different pieces of inter-line baggages. Q: And were some of those items coded in at hall middle? A: Yes.- Q: And were others coded in V3?- A Yes.
MEBO, correct is: 13 pieces of inter-line baggage and 12 pieces of on-line baggage (wrongly coded as inter-line) were transferred over the conveyance system in Frankfurt.
Important: The alleged "Bomb bag" B-8849 was not from AirMalta, it was a normal on-line bag from Berlin, wrongly coded as inter-line bag:
Tray B-8849 came from Berlin with flight PA-643 and belonged to passenger no. 131, Misses W. Wagenführ; coded in Frankfurt via counter V3-206, code S-0009+Z1307); (Prod. 1089, PTM-telex from PanAm company, after offbloc PA-643, 11:26 hour in Berlin, text: from flight PA-643 >> to PA 103B/21-LHRO/0/1/ B1 >
(1 passenger+1 bag > B1) police reference DW 125;
Important, as example:
A luggage item from AirMalta would have been transferred inter-line on PA-103/A! PanAm PA-643 to PanAm PA-103/A is a on-line transfer.
Because of the wrong statement from Gunther Kasteleiner (all 25 bags transfered as inter-line) the court accepted erroneously that the suitcase (Tray B-8849) came from AirMalta, KM-180...
Thus witness Gunther Kasteleiner, traffic assistant FAG, is responsible for this fatal error, inter-line, instead of correctly on-line. Because of this error the bag B-8849 was assigned to AirMalta flight KM-180 !!!
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Jointly responsible for this fatal error is a second Crown witness (no. 835), Klaus Wunderlich (FAG), who supported the wrong statement of the accusation:
"PanAm operated regular shuttle flights from Berlin to Frankfurt. Rather than send the baggage from these flights through the baggage conveyance system, if was standard practice to transport the baggage from the Berlin flight for PA-103/A directly in a trolley across the tarmac. If the loading of PA-103/A had not yet started, the trolley would be left in the baggage hall at the gate until the aircraft was ready for loading."
"The baggage did not go through the baggage conveyance system, the bags which were transferred to PA-103/A in this way are not included on the KIK computer print out."(See: Crown prod. 1060).
However according to the passenger transfer messages (PTM) from the Berlin shuttles on December 21, 1988" (Crown Prod. 1089) as stated by Klaus Wunderlich:
1.>*One piece of baggage was transferred from PA-643 (which
arrived at *13:05) onto PA-103/A.
(MEBO: This time was wrong, correct is: *13:02 on-bloc!)
2.> Twenty one pieces of baggage were transferred from PA-647 (which arrived at 15:05) onto PA-103/A.
3.> Four pieces of baggage were transferred from PA-649 (which
arrived at 16:05) onto PA-103/A.
Important note from MEBO:
Passenger 131, Mrs W. Wagenführ was not summoned as a witness in Kamp van Zeist. She confirmed to MEBO in an interview that her flight PA-643 was already parked on gate 41, on December 21, 1988, around 12:30.
Flight PA-124 came from Vienna und was parked in Frankfurt, at position 44, at 15:49, on-bloc. The flight number of this plane was altered at 16:15 to the new flight number: PA-103/A.
MEBO criticism:
Why the explanation of witness no. 835, Klaus Wunderlich, concerning the "standard practice", was not applicable in this case (PA-103/A):
Wunderlich's testimony: "If the loading of PA-103 had not yet commenced, the trolly would be left in the baggage hall at the gate until the aircraft was ready for loading. Because the baggage did not go through the baggage conveyancing system, the bags which were transfered to PA-103/A."
MEBO explanatory statement:
> Because the airplane of flight PA-103/A was only at 15:49
on-bloc on position 44, the on-line Bag from passenger Mrs.
W. Wagenführ (Tray B-8849 ) was not loaded directly from flight
PA-643 onto PA-103/A.
> Her baggage was also not stored in storage-room 44 because the
Storeroom for Gate 44 (BO 44) was already occupied from 12:45
until 15:09 by the baggage of flight OA-1711.
The (1) piece on-line baggage from passanger No. 131, W.
Wagenführ from Berlin (flight PA-643) was checked on PA-103/A
ordinarily via the Conveyance System and according to the rules.
> Feeder flight PA-643 was at 13:02on-bloc on position Gate
no. 41. Because according to the rules on-line baggage is the
first Transit-baggage to be unloaded, enough time was available
(5 minutes) to bring the on-line baggage of passanger 131, W.
Wagenführ, from Gate 41 to the Interline counter 206,V-3.
With tray B-8849 the on-line Bag, (wrongly coded as inter-line:
S-0009+Z1307) was placed at 13:07 Uhr in the FRA home-storage HS33; from there it was moved at 15:17 without X-ray-Control to storage-room BO 44. (See: HS33+Z1517--BO44
+Z1523). From there it was loaded on PA-103/A.(Notabene: For on-line baggage X-ray checks were only done at the first Check-In, in this case at Berlin-Tegel.
> AT 16:53, flight PA-103/A was off-block with destination LHR-JFK-
DTW. Passanger no. 131, W. Wagenführ + 1 bag, Tray B-8849
were checked out at London-Heathrow (LHR).
Therfore it is guaranteed that bag B-8849 was not transferred on
the mainflight PA-103 to New York!
Chronology of flight OA 1711:
Flight OA 1711 was in Frankfurt on-bloc on position Gate 44 at 12:45. That's why the storage-room BO 44 was occupied until 15:09. At 15:25 the airplane from flight OA 1711 had to be moved to position 49 to deblock the storage-room BO 44 and Gate 44 for the aircraft from flight (PA-124)=PA-103/A.
Other investigation results that prove that no bomb-bag (Tray
B-8849) was loaded from AirMalta KM-180 onto PanAm 103/A:
> From total 136 pieces of baggage (also approved by the BKA and
FAA) which were loaded onto PA-103/A to Heathrow, only the 25 Transfer-baggages which came over the FRA conveyance system must be examined closely, because the
remnant 111 pieces of baggage can definitely be assigned to
passengers or air-companies and are excluded from being transfered by AirMalta.
> From these 25 baggage loaded on PA-103/A via the conveyance
System only 3 pieces of baggage must be examined closely. The
remnant 22 pieces of baggage can be attributed with no doubt:
> 1 Bag, Tray No. B-5070, coded on Interline-Counter HM-3 in FRA, Halle Mitte (Middle Hall), HM. Code: S 0074+Z1320-- BP--HS23+Z1529.
This unaccompanied inter-line bag was forwarded with a PTM
"Forward Message" from Alitalia flight AZ 422 and was a "lost and
found-suitcase" from Susan Costa, officially examined by the BKA/ FAA.
> 1 Bag, Tray No. B-8042, coded at Interline-Counter HM-5 in
FRA, Halle Mitte, HM. Code: S-0070+Z1317--BP--HS13+Z1513.
This accompanied inter-line bag belonged to Transit-passenger
no. 3, *Aubrey H. (The symbol (*) indicates to an Inter-line Passenger)
This inter-line bag, Tray No. 8042, was assigned wrongly by the
BKA and FAA (eventually on purpose) to on-line passenger no.
131, Mrs. W. Wagenführ, from feeder flight PA-643 arriving from
Berlin!
> By this deliberate and unperceived manipulation the
inter-line bag from *Transit Passagier No.3, *Aubrey H. was
missing in the conveyance system. As a consequence the interline-Counter 206, V-3 could be used at 13:07 for the alleged transfer of an alleged "Bomb-Bag" (Tray
B-8849) from the storagehouse HS33 to PA-103/A!
But this on-line bag was doubtlessly transferred from flight PA-643 (not from AirMalta) and must be assigned to passenger
no. 131, Mrs. W. Wagenführ from Berlin-Tegel.
> 24 pieces of 25 pieces of baggage can be excluded with absolut certainty. (13 inter- line bags and 11 on-line bags which were transferred over the inter-line conveyance system. Therefore the remnant bag, Tray B-8849, must be the on-line bag from passenger no. 131, Mrs W. Wagenführ.
At the interline-Counter no. 206, hall V3 this on-line bag was
coded wrongly at 13:07 as inter-line bag (S-0009+Z1307) and was transferred to the storagehouse (HS33+Z1517) from where it was transported to the storage-room at Gate BO 44 from 15:17 on, without X-ray Control, because coded as on-line.
> The on-line bag (Tray B-8849) was assigned wrongly to AirMalta,
flight KM-180 by a fatal accident:
- Tray B-8849 was simultaneously coded with AirMalta baggage
between 13:04 und 13:10, (13.07 at counter 206, V3);
- the wrong testimony of sworn witness, no. 35, Klaus Wunderlich at Kamp van Zeist;
- the wrong testimony of sworn witness no. 799, Mr. Gunther
Kasteleiner at Kamp van Zeist.
Notabene: The judges at the trial in Kamp van Zeist had been deprived by Kasteleiner and Wunderlich of the information that the computer controlled conveyance system in Frankfurt could code simultaneously pieces of baggage from different airlines - on-line and inter-line (mixed) which were then brought to the store-rooms BO at the Gates of the schedulded flights or to the housestorage (HS) until they were called forward and loaded.
Therefore the assumption that bag B-8849 was transferred from AirMalta, - only because of B-8849being coded simultaneously and together with the baggage from AirMalta KM-180, - is untenable and a careless assumption that can not be considered as an indication proof!
All this with fatal consequences for Mr. Abdelbaset al Megrahi and Libya...
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland
All MEBO proofs are under copyright protected and belong to Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd., 8004, Zurich Switzerland.
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Supported et al. by investigation material from the BKA and the FAA:
> Passenger/Baggage list from FAA on PanAm flight F1042= (PA-103/A), 21. Dec. 1988;
> Official Passenger/Baggage list from flight PA-103/A from
Frankfurt: C140V, 21.12.1988;
> Baggage/Loading list from flight PA-103/A KIK.SORT. TADD.881221, 21.12. 1988, Police Ref. DW 135;
> Documents: baggage-delivery F-A32, Police Ref. DW 128;
> BKA document No. 1790 on baggage-transport-system;
> BKA report ST 33 - 068507/88, HR:2327, investigationin context with the crash of PAN AM 103, Meckenheim, 02.07.1990;
> BKA, Police Ref. DW7b, Protocol of traffic control FA 11,Asissistant Gunther Kasteleiner on the handling of baggage at Frankfurt;
> BKA documents on baggage rebooking, Police Ref. DW 137;
> BKA documents on Transit interline Baggage X-ray B 46, shift
from 9:00 to 17.00, 21.12.1988, Police Ref. DW 26;
> BKA documents, summary of worksheets (Arbeitszettel)from FA 32 baggage-service , Airport Frankfurt, Police Ref.DW 136;
> Mebo Interview with PA-643 Passenger no. 131, Mrs. W. Wagenführ, Berlin;
> Correspondence with the BKA, administrator for the PA-103
investigation, Commissioner Böhlefeld, Meckenheim.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland
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