The Scotsman's report on the first day's proceedings, and on the differing views expressed by relatives of those killed in the disaster, can be read here. The report in The Times can be accessed here. Dr Ludwig de Braeckeleer's account on OhMyNews International can be seen here.
The Dutch television film that had a private showing in the Scottish Parliament on 23 April has now been broadcast in The Netherlands. It can be viewed by accessing this website (click on "video" at the top right corner of the screen). Most of the film is in English.
Since August 1990, definitely a wrong date was created (7th of December, 1988) in order to accuse deliberately the libyan official Mr. Abdelbaset al Megrahi as the buyer of the cloths in "Mary's House".
ReplyDeleteA further proof from MEBO that the sale of dresses in Anhony Gauci "Mary's House" took undoubtedly place on Wednesday, 23th of November 1988 by a supposedly Libyan buyer:
Tony Gauci told Bollier on 25.1. 2008 in Malta, that the 2 pieces of pyjamas, label "John Mallia", were the last two pyjamas he had sold to a Libyan in his shop. On the other day, the 24th of November 1988, Gauci by phon ordered at the company "John Mallia" additionally 8 pieces of the same pyjamas. The 8 pyjamas were delivered on the 25th of November 1988 with the calculation/delivery note, dated 25th of November 1988 to Gauci' s Mary' s House at Sliema Malta. Prod. 477-1.
The day after Wednesday, December 7, December 8, 1988 was an official public holiday (Immaculate Conception Day) and the "John
Mallia" company was closed.
But the day after November 23, November 24, 1988 was not an official public holiday, the company "John Mallia" was open.
Court at Kamp van Zeist, Excerpt:
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MR. CAMPBELL: The next witness is 606, Paul Mallia. THE MACER: Paul Mallia, Your Lordship. WITNESS: PAUL MALLIA, sworn EXAMINATION IN CHIEF BY MR. CAMPBELL:
Q -- Mr. Mallia, what is your full name? A --Paul Mallia.
Q --And your address? A --It's 4 Marina Court, Sliema Road, Malta.
Q --What is the name of the company? A --It's John N. Mallia & Son Limited.
Q --Would you look, please, at Label 445. Do you see that the bag contains a pair of pyjamas? A--These are the pyjamas we used to
manufacture back in that time. Q--Could we have on the screen, please, Production 181, photograph 134. You see there a photograph of a pair of pyjamas. Can you confirm, first of all, that that's a photograph of the pyjamas that you have physically in front of you? A--Yes, it is.
Q--Are you familiar with a shop called Mary's House in Tower Road, Sliema? A--Yes. He is one of our clients. Q--Did you supply that shop with goods? A--Yes, we do. Q--Would you look, please, at Production 501. Focus in on the label at the top of the page, please. We see that that label describes what we are about to look at as an invoice.
If we move on, please, to the next image, image 1. Do we there see a carbon-copy invoice from your records, John N. Mallia & Son Limited? A--Yes. Q--And do we see that it's dated 31st October 1988? A--Yes, that's correct. Q--And it's to Mary's House? A--Yes.
Q--In Sliema. And do we see that included in the order is a
quantity of 16 men's pyjamas? A--Yes.
Q--If you can close that, please, and look now at Production 500. Do we see that this label tells us that this, too, is a receipt. And if -- an invoice, I'm sorry. And if we move to image 1, we again see
that this is a carbon copy invoice from your records.
Is this one dated the 25th of November 1988? **
A--Yes, that's correct. Q--And again, is it to Mary's House in
Sliema? A--Yes.
Q--And in this case the item -- the items in it is a quantity of eight men's pyjamas? A--Yes.
** (MEBO: This order made by Gauci on 24th of November 1988, by telephonethe. The supply was the other day, 25th of November)
Excerpt: described by Gauci.
Question: Q--And if we can have
Production 4771, do we see that that's a similar invoice to your shop from John Mallia dated 25th November 1988 for eight pairs of pyjamas?
Answer: A--Yes. I used to buy stock, and when it finished, I used to buy -- I used to phone often. It's an item that is quite sold in winter.
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MEBO:
Mr. Abdelbaset al Megrahi was not in Malta on Wednesday, 23th of November 1988, thus Mr. Megrahi is definetely not the buyer of the dresses !
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO LTD, Switzerland
I watched the documentary "Lockerbie Revisited". It was OK but there was little that was new. It was confusing as some witnesses were not identified and several appeared to have been cloned!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite bit was watching 30 year CIA veteran Bob Baer saying with a straight face that it is the CIA's job to arrive at the truth. Did he not know he was in the business of politically motivated deceit as are his British counterparts?
While I am critical of Richard Marquise's uncritical acceptence of "evidence" I do not doubt his integrity or honesty. Indeed in his debate with my friend Ludwig De Braeckeleer "FBI Investigator Debates OMNI Reporter" Ohmynews 27.2.08 I thought Marquise made the more telling points.
Marquise claimed that prior to the Camp Zeist trial "Scottish prosecutors" had interviewed Marwan Khreesat! This is certainly not in the public record. He also opined that anybody found to have manipulated the evidence should go to gaol.
One comment of Lord Fraser's was an insult to the intelligence. He claimed that the investigation and decision to prosecute could have been reversed by any of his five successors as Lord Advocate (two Conservative/two Labour)before the trial commenced. Not in the real world.
Before the trial there were only two more Lord Advocates Andrew Hardie QC and Colin Boyd QC. It was Lord Fraser's Deputy and successor Andrew Hardie who gave "evidence" to the Fatal Accident Inquiry that the bomb arrived at Heathrow on flight PA103A from Frankfurt.
Hardie had no personal knowledge of what transpired and was parrotting the dubious conclusions of the Police. However on the basis of Hardie's evidencethe Inquiry concluded the bomb had arrived from Frankfurt. The investigation or the lawyers handling the case were not going to dispute the Lord Advocate's sworn evidence and at the trial the Judges accepted the bomb had arrived from Frankfurt while completely undermining the dubious logic on which this conclusion was based.
Indeed while "Lockerbie Revisited" concentrated on whether or not the FBI's Tom Thurman had identified or handled the MST timer the real scandal was his supervision of the FBI tests that corroborated the Police's dubious conclusion. (see Lockerbie The Heathrow Evidence at http://e-zeecon.com.)
Having given hearsay and extremely dubious evidence that the bomb arrived from Frankfurt his fellow Judges did not conclude that his evidence was untrue or perjured. A further five Scottish Judges will spend the next two years considering wheteher Lord Hardie's hearsay evidence was true or not.
Is this not going to be an enormous waste of time?
I too have viewed 'Lockerbie revisited' and was very impressed - especially with the interview of Thomas Thurman, formerly the FBI lab's political scientist. Thurman re-stated on camera that he had identified the actual timer fragment (not a photograph) as coming from the Mebo circuit board. Richard Marquise first agreed that the timer fragment had been brought from the UK to the US, but later had to contradict himself.
ReplyDeleteHere is my summary of the film:
"Lockerbie revisited" is a 52-minute video, courtesy of Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. The film's director and narrator, Gideon Levy, interviews retired FBI officer Richard Marquise, Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Henderson of the Scottish police, ex-FBI laboratory official Thomas Thurman, UN Observer at the Lockerbie trial Hans Köchler, author and journalist Ian Ferguson, former CIA agent Robert Baer, ex-FBI laboratory scientist Fred Whitehurst and former Lord Advocate Lord Fraser of Carmyllie.
Robert Baer says that geopolitics and inter-agency rivalry prevented the CIA passing intelligence-derived evidence to the FBI. Richard Marquise states categorically that no money was paid to any of the witnesses before the trial. In relation to witness Tony Gauci, Marquise refuses to say whether any money was paid out after the trial. Lord Fraser says he gave strict instructions that no payment should be made to witnesses. Dr Whitehurst describes the FBI laboratory as a "crime scene", where his unqualified colleague Tom Thurman would routinely alter Whitehurst's scientific reports over a five-year period. Ian Ferguson reports that the timer fragment - allegedly found in the PA103 debris and which allegedly was part of the Mebo timer that triggered the bomb - had not been tested for explosives residue because of 'budgetary reasons'. Whitehurst does not accept that cost could be the reason since it would have taken him just a morning's work to have tested the timer fragment. Thurman confirms that the fragment - the only real piece of evidence against Libya - had been brought over from the UK to the FBI lab, where he had personally identified it as coming from the circuit board of a Mebo MST-13 timer, only 20 of which had been made and all were supplied to Libya. Marquise agrees that "without the timer fragment we would have been unable to develop additional evidence against Libya." He says that of all the evidence retrieved from the crash scene, only one piece - the timer fragment - was brought to America. Lord Fraser disagrees saying he would have had to authorise the handing over to the FBI of this crucial piece of evidence, and he had not done so.
In another interview towards the end of the film, Marquise changes his mind and is prompted by DCS Henderson to say that the "fragment never came to the US." Marquise volunteers that he actually saw the timer fragment in London, but Henderson corrects him saying Marquise had seen it where all the other evidence was kept in the UK. Before taking his leave, Henderson emphasises to the camera that there are "no hidden holes to find because the culprit is in custody - take my word for it!"
Ian Ferguson is given the last word. He is heard to say: "This could bring an end to the appeal. If the Crown knew that this was all going to be heard in public, they may well drop their opposition to the appeal and Megrahi goes free. That's how f*****g important it is. This could bring the Scottish judicial system and the FBI into f*****g complete disrepute, and frankly they would not want this linen to be washed in public!"
I would like to clarify one point which so many people seem to have made important. A photograph of PT-35 was identified by Tom Thurman as similar to a photograph of a timer circuit board which had been located in Senegal in 1988 in the possession of two Libyan intelligence officers. He also compared that photograph with the circuit board of a similar MEBO timer found in Togo in 1986 and in the possession of the US in 1990. He believed them to be identical. The FBI asked the Scottish police to bring the fragment (PT-35) to the US in about June 1990 to be compared with the photograph of the Senegal timer and the circuit board of the Togo timer. Feraday did in fact bring the fragment to the US--it was never out of his possession and was brought back to the UK at the conclusion of his analysis with Tom Thurman in the FBI lab. This is what I said on my initial interview and later clarified my remarks made at Arlington in December by email to Mr. Levy in December 2008 stating I believed that Feraday did in fact bring the fragment to the US but it was never out of his possession. I did not see the fragment on that trip.
ReplyDeleteI later saw the fragment (PT-35) in person at RARDE when I traveled there with Mr. Henderson in the winter of 1991.
I have many more things I would like to say but do not want to use this site to post my "rants" each time I disagree with what someone posts.
For the memory of FBI Spezial Agent und Task Force chief Richard A. Marquise, PART 1:
ReplyDeleteEx Witness no. 528, Richard Louis Sherrow, was primary a special officer for explosive ordnance disposel in the United States Army. In November of 1984 he leaving the army and take up a position as an explosives enforcement officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a law enforcement agency within the USA.
In the end of 1986 officer Sherrow in the company of Mr.Owen and Mr.Casay, to go to Lome, Togo (West Africa) in order of the US-Department of State.
Sherrow and company were taken to the headquarters, army barracks and were shown explosives, firearms, ammunition, military equipment and take some photographs from 2 MEBO MST-13 electronic timers.
Trial Kamp van Zeist excerpt:
Q--And did there come a stage where you were considering returning to the United States?
(Witness 528, Richard Sherrow) A--Yes. Q--And at that stage did you express any interest in taking any of the items back with you? A--Yes, sir.
Q--What were you interested in taking with you? A--I was interested in the timers, also in samples of explosives.
Q--Did you liaise with anybody as to whether it would be possible to do that? A--Yes. Q--Who was that? A--The State Department representative, the embassy personnel. Q--Now, the State Department representative, was that somebody who had travelled with you from the United States? A--Yes. Q--Was it Mr. Casey? A--Yes, it was. Q--I see.
And what was the result of these negotiations? A--Subsequently, we were allowed to -- I was allowed to take one timer and a sample of, I believe, three different types of explosives. Q--Thank you. And how were these items taken away from Togo? A--They were placed in the United States
diplomatic pouch and returned. Q--And who had custody of that?
A--Mr. Casey. Q--So does it follow from that, then, that the items which you were given permission to remove were taken from the country in his custody? A--Yes, sir. Q--And on your return to the United States, did you see any of the these items again? A--Yes, I did. Once we returned to the United States, they were turned over to my custody. Q--I see. Was that all of the items? A--Yes, sir.
Q--And therefore including the timer? A--Yes, sir. Q--How many timers did you remove? A--Only one. Q--And what did you do with it when you returned to the United States? A--I examined it at the headquarters of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, performed bench tests, functioning tests.
Q-- Did you photograph it at the headquarters? A--Yes, I did. Q--Had you also photographed that some timer in Lome? A--Yes. Q--And having performed these tests and photographed it, what did you then do with it? A--I was requested to take it to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and give a briefing on what I found. Q--And did you do that? A--I did.
Q--And did you take the timer with you in order to give that briefing? A--Yes. Q--Did you return to your own headquarters after that briefing? A--I did, yes. Q--And did you take the timer back with you? A--No, I didn't. That was released to their custody.
MEBO important: On the MST-13timer PC-board was printed the name of the manufacturer, 'MEBO Ltd' and Switzerland. Thus Richard Luis Sherrow and the CIA, knows since at the beginning of of 1987, the manufacturer and the address! This explains why the UK expert of RARDE, Mr. All Feraday end of Jun 1989, visit an officer of the Swiss Federal Police about timer and MEBO Ltd...
Continuation follows with the next comment and later on our webpage: www.lockerbie.ch
by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Switzerland
The documentary "Lockerbie revisited" by Dutch film director, Gideon Levy, (not to be confused with the renowned Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, who writes for the "Haaretz" newspaper) can be viewed by visiting Wikipedia article "VPRO Backlight" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPRO_Backlight - and clicking on the referenced link.
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