[This is the headline over an article dated 25 June on the website of The New York Times. It reads in part:]
At least six men suspected or convicted of crimes that threaten national security retained their federal aviation licenses, despite antiterrorism laws written after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that required license revocation. Among them was a Libyan sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
In response to questions from The New York Times, the Transportation Security Administration, which is supposed to root out such individuals, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses on Thursday. (...)
The two on the most wanted list were the defendants in the Pan Am 103 case, listed by the F.B.I. in 1995 as Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhima. The former is in the public F.A.A. records as Abdelbaset Ali Elmegrahi. While the transliteration of the Arabic differs between the two agencies, both records list the same birth date.
“This data’s dirty,” said Mark Schiffer, who works for the family company along with his father. “People have typos, misspellings, and the data gets truncated or entered in the wrong field.” (...)
But the matching is not difficult, using “fuzzy logic” developed in the banking industry, he said, and with clues like a post office box address in Tripoli used by both the bomber who was convicted, and a co-defendant who was acquitted by the Scottish court, listed on his F.A.A. license as Lamen Khalifa Fhima.
The two men were considered to be Libyan intelligence agents, yet they remained licensed as flight dispatchers, an obscure but critical profession in the airline world. Dispatchers help draw up flight plans, calculate how many people and how much cargo and baggage the plane can carry, and so on.
DOCUMENT no. 649
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Criminal Law and Licensing Division
Edinburgh, EH1 3DC, Scotland
Chronology of the MST-13 timer fragment:
17th of January, 1989:
(Prod. no. 151) On page 106 and on top of page 107 of the report, section 6, "Concealment of the IED" (radio) is written:
"In January 1989, some fragmented and charred material was recovered by the AAIB personnel from a metallic side panel of the primary baggage container (AVE 4041 PA) where it had been rammed into the convoluted sheet metal as a result of the explosion. This material was allocated the production number AG/145" -- as referred to in section 6.2.1 below -- "and delivered to the RARDE laboratory on the 17th of January 1989". Detail: >>>
(On the 17th of January 1989, Mr. Thomas Claiden (witness no. 317) allegedly found a piece of printed circuit board, (AG/145, label 23) in the plate of container AVE 4041; handed over at RARDE.)
On the same date, January 17, 1989 leftovers of cloths designated as PT-95 were new labeled by the Scottish police with label no.168 described as "cloth".
(Items from RadioRecorder Toshiba; handbook etc. delivered with lable 24, on the 22nd or the 23rd December 1988 from Gwendoline Horton, ex Witness no.334, to police constable Brian Walton, ex Witness no.336, Northumbria police Alnwick, then passing to RARDE.)
A third group of fragments of debris was into a part of a blue-and white Slalom T-shirt that had been in the IED suitcase no.3127:
One item of interest was the alleged MST-13 timerfragment (Label 353). The fragment of printed circuit board extracted by Dr.Hayes from Label no.168, that's PI-995. (Statement of Witness no.257, Thomas Gilchrist, detective constable of Strathclyde police, day 26, page 2482, Kamp van Zeist.)
The police label no.168, was later by Dr. Hayes, falsified and PT-95 became PI-995 with the same date, January 17, 1989, (before the date was 13.1.1989). The text of the discription of the article "cloth" (charred) was altered into "DEBRIS" (charred). Why?
MEBO say: Dr. Thomas Hayes (RARDE) needed the manipulated police label no.168, now designated as "DEBRIS" (charred) (PI-995) for his later falsified EXAMINATION side no.51, from 12th of May, 1989!
1st of May, 1989: Starting from this date for expert Allen Feraday was clear, the cirquit board AG/145 came from a Toshiba radio recorder RT-8016-RT-SF16, BomBeat.
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ReplyDeleteOriginal statement to photo No.100, and side No.51, of ex Witness No.355, Allen Feraday, RARDE:
A--" Item PT/35 (a), assorted materials recovered from damaged cloting PI-995. These nine fragments of black plastics were recovered from a fragment of the grey 'Slalom' brand shirt (item PI/995, Section 5.1.3)."
Amongst these paper and radio fragments recovered from the grey shirt was a single fragment of a green-coloured print circuit board, now designated as item PT/35(b).
MEBO say, NB: Auf der manipulierten Seite No.51, wurde nicht gesagt, dass es sich bei Part No. PT-35(b) "green coloured circuit board," um das MST-13 Timerfragment handelte. Nur auf der dazugehörigen Foto No.100, wird das MST-13 Timerfragment abgebildet (rot eingekreist).
Auf dem Fragment sieht man deutlich den eingekratzten Buchstabe "M"! Aus diesem "M" und anderen technischen Merkmalen, (unperfekte Lötbahnen, etc) lässt sich das MST-13 Timer-Fragment (PT-35(b) zweifelsfrei zuordnen, dass dieses Fragment aus einem nicht funktionstüchtigen MST-13 circuit PC-board (Prototype), brown coloured, fabriziert wurde!
22th of June 1989: A prototype of a brown colored MST-13 PC-board (circuit board) was handed over without Bolliers's knowledge to a Swiss police officer by Eng. Ulrich Lumpert (MEBO AG) for police examination. The police officer and Eng. Lumpert did at this time not know for which purpose the PC board was used!
The PC-board was handed over via the Scottish Police (officer Thomas Gilchrist, ex Witness no. 257) to experts Dr. Thomas Hayes and Allen Feraday, both acccredited at RARDE.
Notabene: it is common practice that police organisations exchange evidence among each other .
18th of July 1989: Allen Feraday and RARDE photographer Heines visited a second time FBI expert Tomas Thurman in the USA. Esplosive tests were simulated with containers and Toshiba radio recorders. If the MST-13 circuit board from Eng. U. Lumpert was included into the tests is not known.
15th of September 1989: Between the 18th of July and the 15th of September 1989 the MST-13 timer fragment was fabricated from the brown prototype MST-13 circuit board with the letter "M" scratched on it and polaroid pictures from this manipulated timer fragment were taken by RARDE photographer Heines.
10th of December 1989: Third visit by Allen Feraday and Scottish Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Henderson at the FBI in the USA. If the MST-13 timer fragment was brought to the States or only the Polaroid pictures of the fragment stays open.
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ReplyDeleteJanuary, 1990: A Mysterious fax, Scotbom, chapter 17:
°°° Insp. William Willimson said that Allen Feraday, the forensic examiner, had sent a fax to Henderson in January 1990, about items he found blasted into a Slalom shirt. In addition to pieces of black plastic, some wire and a piece of a instruction manual for the RT-SF16 radio were discovered.
The most significant item was a fingernail-size chip, green in color, with solder for a circuit on one side only. This chip became known as PT-35, the evidence designation placed on it by the Scots.°°°
MEBO comment: At this time the fax does not say that PT-35 was identical with the MST-13 timer fragment.
8th of February 1990 until 9th of March 1990:
Various forensic tests with different private electronics and computer companies in UK, among them: CIBA Geigy, NEW ENGLAND LAMINATE, YATES Circuit Foils in Cumbria, MORTON international.
23th of April, 1990: Visit from two Swiss police officers, P. Flückiger und H. Knaus, of the Swiss Federal Police (BUPO) at MEBO in Zurich. Questioning about a MST-13 timer fragment, originating from a brown Prototype circuit board, depictured on a Polaroid picture.
27th of April, 1990: As a consequence, 4 days later Inspector Keith Harrower (Scottish Police) visited on the 27th of April 1990 with the MST-13 timer fragment the electronic company Siemens AG in Munich, Germany. Engineer Brosante sawed this first brown original MST-13 fragment into two parts (Label 419) and confirmed: "standard (brown) PC-platine with 8 layers of fiberglass."
MEBO comment: The green machine made MST-13 timers (Thüring) delivered to Libya consisted of PC-boards with 9 layers of fiberglass.
Important: At this point of time the MST-13 timer fragment was not yet designated as PT-35! Under the designation PT-35 (b) on the manipulated examination-side No. 51 from the 12th of May 1989 only a "green colored circuit board" was registered. If it originated from a radio recorder or from a MST-13 timer is unknown !
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ReplyDelete10th of May, 1990: After his visit to Siemens AG Insp. Keith Harrower based at Kirkintillok went back to Scotland and was from May 1990 on deliberately replaced by a new police officer, Det. Michael Langford-Johnson based in Glasgow. Without his knowing of already done examinations Det. Michael Langford-Johnson was ordered by Inspector William Williamson to continue fraudulent manipulations concerning the "MST-13 fragment.
This replacement of manpower was used for keeping secret the exchange of the brown MST-13 Fragment (with the "M" on it) with a green MST-13 fragment (duplicate without the "M" on it). The continuity of examinations was thus interrupted by replacing Keith Harrower by Inspector Michael Langford Johnson!
12th of May, 1990: From this date on only the green MST-13 fragment (duplicate) was dealt with !
The fragment was fabricated from a green Thüring circuit board and received for the first time the RARDE designation PT-35B.
This duplicate, PT-35B was sawn into two pieces in the presence of Insp. Williamson.
> The bigger part of the green fragment was designated as
PT/35(b). The smaller green part was designated as DP/31(a);
> To hinder the cover-up of this manipulation the green fragment PT/35(b) was put together with the first brown part DP/31(a) and phoptgraphed as "Patchwork" PT-35B !
MEBO comment: These facts were recorded on two police protocols on the occasion of Edwin Bollier's visit at Mrs. Miriam Watson's office (Principal Procurator Fiscal Depute) in Dumfries UK on the 16th of September 1999 when Edwin Bollier was for the first time allowed to examine the "original" fragment in possesion of the Scottisch authorities.
Around seven months before the trial in Kamp van Zeist the brown part of the fragment DP/31(a) was deliberately carbonized to make it impossible to recognize its originally brown colour !
By this manipulation together with the remaining green fragment PT/35(b) (without the "Letter "M" on it) Libya could be implicated in the Lockerbie tragedy because the MST-13 timers delivered to Libya were equipped with green MST-13 circuit boards !...
11th of June, 1990: International Conference at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, present: FBI, Scottish, Germany, Swiss, Malta, Swedish Police Officers and security agents.
From SCOTBOM, FBI Spezial Agent and Task Force chief Richard Marquise announces:
°°° Little more had been found in the fields around Lockerbie, the intelligence information had remained constant and no witness had come forward to tell us how the bombing took place. Without a significant break, it seemed there would be no solution to the crime.
The Scots finally told everyone else about PT-35, the fragment that appeared to have come from a circuit board, which had been blasted into the Yorkie clothing.
They had visited *55 companies around the world and had been unable to identify its source. It did not match any of the electronic components found at Lockerbie.°°°
MEBO say: In order to be able to present a convincing investigation result, a chronology was created, before the conveyed MEMORAN-DUM, Feraday had delivered to Insp. Williamson, on 15,9, 1989, about the found of a circuit board.
From the text and the sketch, it shows clearly that it was the MST-13 fragment, which were photographed by Feraday for the first time, on 12.9. 1988 !
Dazu bot sich die Foto, no.100, mit der Abbildung eines Stück "Slalom" T-shirts, und weitere "Items debris", unter Label PI-995, PP'8932.
With a photo assembly a picture was integrated with the MST-13 timer fragment, with character "M" on it.
Ergänzend dazu (12. May 1989) wurde von Dr.Hayes und Feraday die gefälschte EXAMINATION Seite No.51 geschaffen, auf welcher das "circuit board, green coloured", als PT-35 (b) registriert wurde.
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ReplyDeleteObjection: *In this context it is important to recall that already after BUPO's visit at MEBO on the 23th of April 1990 and not prime from June 1990 on it was known: The brown circuit board with the letter "M" inscratched, shown on a Polaroid Photo to Meister and Bollier originated from a prototype MST-13 timer !
It can be concluded that the Siwss Federal Police (BUPO) had passed over thess important statements from Meister & Bollier to the Scottish police investigators.
Important:
FBI Special Agent Richard Marquise led the U.S. Task Force which included the FBI, Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency, managed all aspects of the investigation on the Lockerbie Case.
Mr. Marquise is responsible for the wrong "fact" that the PT-35 circuit board was found in a piece of a "Yorkie trouser", allegedly also bought at "Mary's House" in Malta and not in a piece of a "Slalom" T-shirt ! (SCOTBOM chapter 9)
Mebo comment: The allegedly found green circuit board, registered on the manipulated examination page no. 51, most probably originates from a Toshiba radio recorder RT-8016; without a doubt not from a MST-13 timer!
The fact that the circuit board PT-35, was not found in a piece of a "Slalom"-T-shirt proves that the examination page no. 51, dated May 12, 1989, and the attributed photo no. 100, (PI-995/ PP'8932) from Dr. Hayes (RARDE) had been manipulated !
Explainable facts indicate that in the same RARDE report 181, notes from the deliberately torn out page no. 55 about parts of alleged debris were added on page no. 51.
Explanation: On photo no. 100, a piece of a "Slalom" T-shirt is depictured. Therefore the fragment of a green circuit board blasted into the "Slalom" T-shirt can not be about the MST-13 timer fragment.
The photo no. 100 was manipulated by photmontage. The originally depictured green radio recorder-circuit board was belatedly exchanged by the MST-13 timer fragment (red encircled) !
A large criminal fraud:
°°°FBI ExpertTom Thurman, the agent from the explosives unit, who had been present in Lockerbie early in the investigation and had been part of the team, approached Stuart Henderson and asked if he could take photographs of PT-35 attempt to identify it. Hederson, who believed the Scots had done all they could do, agreed. What Thurman did yielded fruit within two days.
Chief Superintendent, Stuart Henderson and his colleagues were on an airplane headed back to Scotland; what Thurman discovered would turn Henderson around quicker than he ever imagined.°°°
Thurman took the photographs to a technical expert John Scott Orkin at the CIA.
(K-1) was the Libya MST-13 timer which had been seized 1986 by US officer *Richard Luis Sherrow in Togo and Senegal (*ex Witness no. 528).
When Thurman examined the Fragment PT-35 he saw, the fragment were identical with the Libya MST-13 timer.
°°°When Thurman saw it, he exclaimed "I have you now!" °°°
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°°°Thurman quickly notified officials at WFO and FBI' Headquartes of the discovery. in twenty four hours chief Stuart Henderson and Allen Feraday, were back in USA.°°°
FBI expert Tom Thurman announces in a media conference that a fragment from a "MST-13" timer from MEBO Switzerland allegedly found in the debris of PanAm 103 trigered the explosion and brought Boeing 747down.
In two documented statements Tom Thurman states to the interviewer believably that for his examinations he had examined the MST-13 fragment (PT-35B) only on a photograph !
Tom Thurman was celebrated as "Person of THE WEEK" by ABC broadcasting ...
BBC (UK) Title: Despatches from the 17th of December 1998. Published on our webpage: www.lockerbie.ch
10th of September, 1990: Members of the Scottish Lockerbie inquiry team, together with officers of the British Security Service, were making arrangements to travel to Switzerland. Their intention was to meet members of the Swiss police and intelligence service. The purpose of the meeting was to take forward a line of inquiry suggesting that the company MEBO might have been the manufactures of the MST 13 timing device. Such a device had already been identified as forming part of the improvised explosive devise responsible for the destruction of PanAm 103.
Prior to the departure of these officers, a request was made by CIA to the British Security Service to deter or delay"-- I'll read that again--" to deter or delay the members of the Scottish Lockerbie inquiry team from making the visit. "This request was refused, and the visit proceeded as planned. Separately, officers of the CIA met with the Swiss police and intelligence service on the day before the visit made by the Scottish Lockerbie inquiry team and the British Security Service."
Inspector William Williamson needed for his visit at BUPO pictures from a green MST-13 timer fragment PT-35. He urged Feraday to deliver him adequate pictures.
Together with a questionable memorandum from the 15th of September 1990, *Label DP 137, Feraday handed over pictures to Williamson, Polaroid photos of a green MST-13 fragment (PT-35). In the memorandum is written et al. "Enclosed are some polaroid photographs the green circuit board. Sorry about the qualities but it is the best I can do in some short time."
*Label DP 137 from Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary, with the original date of September 15, 1990 was later manipulated and dated back to September 10, 1989. Therfore it must be concluded that the MEMORANDUM from the 15th of September 1989 is a belatedly written document.
21st November, 1990:
The first story in a US newspaper against Libya.
SCOTBOM: There was a story in the newspaper which infuriedated me (Marquise)! A retired CIA agent had told the media the focus of the Lockerbie investigation was no longer on Palestinaians, Syrians or Iranians but was now on Libya because of evidence which had been recovered at Lockerbie. Vincend Cannistraro, the former Deputy Director at the CIA Counterterrorism Center (CTC), who had come to few FBI-CIA meetings on the Lockerbie investigation, had retired the previous summer.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland