Tuesday 14 September 2010

Justice officials to meet US senate team over Lockerbie

[This is the headline over a report on the BBC News website. It reads in part:]

US senate officials investigating the release of the Lockerbie bomber are to hold talks with the Scottish government in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The team, representing Senator Robert Menendez, will meet Scottish justice officials. (...)

Opposition members of the Scottish Parliament will also meet with the American delegation.

The investigators are preparing a report for the US senate's foreign relations committee which is due to hold a hearing on Capitol Hill later this month.

It launched an inquiry amid claims - denied by the Scottish and UK governments - that Megrahi's release was linked to an oil deal.

[This report, for some reason best known to the BBC (unlike the report on the BBC News Arabic website) does not mention that the Scottish Government has refused to allow the investigators to interview ministers; and that the UK Government has declined to allow either ministers or civil servants to meet them. The investigators are Andrew Gounardes, legislative aide for investigations to Senator Menendez, and legislative counsel Hal Connolly.]

20 comments:

  1. MISSION LOCKERBIE:
    Computer translation "Babylon", German/English >>>

    New MEBO proofs confirm: Mr. Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi alias "Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad" have nothing to do with a "Bomb-Bag" smuggeled into PanAm 103.

    MEBO brings shortly the proof that the improvised explosive device (IED) "Bomb Bag" by 100%, on 21 December 1988, not in Malta via Frankfurt, but in the airport London Heathrow (LHR), was smuggled in on PanAm flight PA-103

    The Bag no. B-8849, was not a inter-line "Bomb-Bag" from Air Malta flight KM-180, but a normal on-line Bag transfer from flight
    PA-643--to PA-103/B) and was escorted with passenger no.134,
    Ms. Wagenführ W. and was checking out at Airport Heathrow.
    (see MEBO Doc. 855 and 848.rtf.)

    MEBO information:
    John Hubbard, a PanAm pilot testified to FAA and BKA that he personlally put 2 bags on at belt in Berlin TXL, and received only one when he got home to Seattle USA; both were "Samsonite" bags an both had rush tags on them.
    The 2 bag was unacommpanied and was routed first from Berlin on PanAm flight PA-637 to Frankfurt, PA-107 to London-Heathrow, and with PA-123 to Seattle USA.
    The flight PA-637 came too late to FRA and the flights for the two bags were changed on flight PA-103/B to London Heathrow, and with PA-103 London LHR via NewYork JFK to Seattle.
    +++

    A copy of a notepad, by mistake later scrapped, from Mr. Douglas Roxburgh, a police officer for Dumfries & Galloway Constabulatory next described the procedure for storing and inventorying crucial items retrieved from the ground in Lockerbie...
    From container AVE-4041-PA the following informations:

    1) 1 Bag was found from PanAm pilot John Hubbard with a "rush
    tag" on it. It was found in Lockerbie and it was before in the
    luggage container which contained the bomb bag (AVE 4041-PA)but had *no blast damage !
    Hubbert travelled to Lockerbie and identified this bag.

    MEBO information: *That support the fact that the "Bomb Bag" was not inside the container AVE 4041 PA, but between the airplanes wall and the container, Place distance 27cm.
    (see assessment from Fraunhofer Institut Germany)

    2) Other bags also identified as having come from AVE 4041 PA
    container and recovered at Lockerbie included one bag of Ms.
    Susan Costa, and one bag belonging to Adolf Weinacker. Neither of these persons were passengers, and it appears that were both
    "rush tag" bags.
    Mr. Francis Boyer also had a bag in AVE 4041-PA which was recovered, Ms. Patricia Mary Coyle had 2 bags, one of which was in the same container, and Ms.Karen Noonan had checked in 3 bags, 1 of which was in the same container AVE 4041-PA. Mr. Thomas E. Walker had 2 suitcases in Container AVE 4041-PA.
    All this Baggage was transported before with fligt PA-103/B from
    Frankfurt to London LHR.

    Continuation down >>>

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  2. Continuation MISSION LOCKERBIE:

    +++
    CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. KEEN: Witness no. 113, excerpt:

    Q--- Mr. Roxburgh, shortly after you took up your duties at Lockerbie, did you become aware of the presence of a group known as the Joint Intelligence Group?
    A---At Lockerbie?
    Q---At Lockerbie.
    A---I was aware that they operated there, yes.
    Q---And you were aware that this comprised members of the British Intelligence Services and of certain foreign intelligence services?
    A--- I was never involved directly in it, so I'm afraid I can't answer that.------
    Q--- During the course of your duties at Lockerbie, did you have to attend management meetings with the chief constable?
    A--- Yes, I did.
    Q--- And do you recollect raising, at one of the earliest management meetings, your concern that agencies other than the police were dealing with property at the site of the disaster, and expressed
    concern that some property was being removed without being recorded in the property system at Dextar?
    A---Yes, I did. As far as I can recall, I did raise that on one occasion.----
    +++

    MEBO information:
    From the load list of PanAm flight PA-103 in London/Heathrow became evident that *1 Bag was too much loaded !
    This Bag belonged to Mr.*Basura, a passenger who got drunk at the Heathrow airport and missed his plane...
    The remaining Baggage was corresponding with the load list, these must includet the "Bomb-Bag" !

    Since he was clear that only 1 pieces of two "Samsonite" suitcase from pilot John Hubbard was loaded on PA-103 at Heathrow, confirmed that the second Bag was exchanged with the "Bomb Bag" in Heathrow and was loaded on PA-103!

    Mysterious: Among other things the Baggage load list from flight PA-103 was after the information of the 'Monstrosity' destroyed !
    Crown witness 566, Cmmissioner Hans Jürgen Fuhl of the German Bundeskriminal Amt (BKA) in his Crown precognition:
    He commendet that other organisations who were investigating the bombing had taken some of the documentation before the BKA could get their hands on it. He also noted that PanAm had apparently instructed staff at Heathrow to destroy documents !

    Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland. URL: www.lockerbie.ch

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  3. MISSION LOCKERBIE:
    The intelligence service PAMPHLET of Linda Mack's comes soon...
    by MEBO ebol

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  4. Right, Ebola. And did any of these bags contain a spanish typewriter?

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  5. Attn. Bunntamas
    Of course not but in any of these bags was a swiss mini-spy
    with best recommendation
    ebol

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  6. A Mr. Basura????

    Rubbish (well, it's Spanish for dustbin/garbage/midden)

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  7. @CJM: Edwin Bollier meant to say "Basuta". This is from the Wikipedia article on Pan Am Flight 103:

    "Jaswant Basuta, an Indian national, was checked in for Pan Am Flight 103, but arrived at the boarding gate too late. Having attended a family wedding in Belfast, Basuta was returning to New York where the 47-year old car mechanic was about to start a new job. Friends and relatives from nearby Southall came to see him off at the airport terminal, and bought him drinks in the upstairs bar. When "gate closing" flashed on the departure screen, Basuta hurried through security and passport control and sprinted to the departure gate, but the room was empty except for Pan Am ground staff who denied him access to the aircraft.

    "Basuta was initially considered a suspect as his checked baggage had been on the flight without him. After questioning at Heathrow police station, he was released without charge. Twenty years later, in an interview with the BBC, Basuta talked about his narrow escape from death: 'I should have been the 271st victim and I still feel terrible for all the other people who died'."

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  8. Wikipedia appears to be in error as refards Mr. Basuta's nationality. He is consistently described in the documents I have seen as a US national. That was a strong factor in the decision to allow the plane to leave the stand without stopping to unload his luggage.

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  9. MISSION LOCKERBIE:

    Correction, sorry the name was Basuta, Jaswant.
    By the way, here are for the first time the perfect data, which had been missing by defense team Duff & Taylor for the big success...
    Today free of doubts, the following baggage can assigned to passengers and flights.
    A Bag transfer from Air Malta flight KM-180 can be excluded definitely to favour for
    Mr. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi.

    sorry only in German language:
    Auf PanAm 103/B in Frankfurt wurden laut Sicherheits-Report (Police Ref.DW 26) von Kurt Maier, Sicherheitsfirma ALERT, am 21. Dezember 1988, nur folgende 13 inter-line Gepäckstücke mit X-Ray überprüft, welche auf Flug PA-103/B geladen wurden.

    Dieses Baggage kann heute nach Dokumenten zweifelsfrei Passagieren und Flug Nummern zugeordnet werden.
    Ein angeblich vierzehntes (14) Inter-line Bag von AirMalta, Flug KM-180, kann zusätzlich mit diesem starken Beweis nicht dabei gewesen sein und kann deshalb definitiv ausgeschlossen werden !
    Transfer auf PanAm Flight PA-103/B in Frankfurt, total 13 Inter-line Bags, X-Ray kontrolliert zwischen 16:25 - 16:30 Uhr:

    3 Bag von Passagier No.13, Walker T. Sacrifice; Bag-Tray No. B-4809 / B-6001 / B- 7418
    (Transfer von LH-631 aus Kuwait to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork).

    1 Bag von Passagier No.10,
    *Bennet T., Sacrifice; Bag-Tray No.B-5620 (Transfer von Lufthansa, Flight LH-1005 to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork. Attribut (*) on Passagier Liste bedeutet: *Bag am Gate B-44 um 15:44 Uhr durchgecheckt).

    2 Bag von Passagier No.31, Patrice M. Coyle, Sacrifice, Bag-Tray No. B-5203 / B-5936,
    (Transfer von Lufthansa Flight LH-1453, to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork).

    3 Bag von Passagier No.99, Noonan K., Sacrifice, Bag-Tray No. B-3546 / B10773 / B-10467,
    (Transfer von Lufthansa Flight LH-1453, to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork).

    1* Bag von Passagier No.*Aubrey H., Bag-Tray No. B-8042 (Transfer von Flight Olympic Airways Flight OH-1711, to PA-103/B to ENDZIEL London-Heathrow, Bag CHECKING OUT)
    (Attribut (*) *Bag am Gate B-44 um 13:17 Uhr durchgecheckt)

    1 Bag unnaccompanied, von Susan Costa, Bag-Tray No. B-5070 (Transfer von Alitalia Flight
    AZ-422, to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork).

    2 Bag unaccompanied, von Adolph Weinacker, Bag-Tray No. B-3148 / B-4573 (Transfer von Lufthansa Flight LH-241, to PA-103/B (FRA) to PA-103 at London-Heathrow (LHR) to (JFK) NewYork).
    +++
    by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland. Website: www.lockerbie.ch

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  10. @Rolfe: Wikipedia is probably accurate on this occasion.

    I think you will find that Mr Basuta was indeed an Indian national in 1988 but, by residing and working in the States over a 5-year period, he went on to acquire US citizenship through naturalization.

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  11. Maybe you could tell me where I'd find that? All the trial says about it is (page 6358)

    "Mr. Basuta was en route to the gate. They then checked out to find out what nationality the gentleman was, and as a consequence, the flight was allowed to depart with the bags on. He was a U.S. citizen, and other questions had been asked, and they were of the opinion that although he was a gate no-show, they had resolved any queries about that particular passenger."

    Obviously that's not incompatible with what you're saying, I'm just curious to know the source.

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  12. MISSION LOCKERBIE:

    Passenger Basuta, who got drunk at the Heathrow airport missed his plane. He say to the gate personal, he have checked in 1 Bag, but later the police found out that Basuta checked-in 2 Bags.
    See Production 201, the first page left column number 9, passenger Basuta J. M "2", seat 42K.
    That was the reason why 1 Bag too much was loaded on PA-103.

    See Production 201, the first page left column number 9, passenger Basuta J. M "2", seat 42K.

    The Lordships heard evidence from witness no.799 Kasteleiner.
    that of the 111 bags shown in that document, Production 1060, 25 were inter-line bags and a balance of 86 were checked-in bags at Frankfurt Airport.

    The number of 25 inter-line luggage items is wrong as can be proved ! From the alleged 25 inter-line luggage items were 12 of it on-line Bag's all from PanAm flights TXL Berlin.
    Importantly: the Bag Tray No. *B-8849 was an on-line bag from Panam Flight PA-643 and was checked out in London Heathrow !

    (* was not a "Bomb-Bag", transfered from AirMalta KM-180 into
    PA-103/B). The bag was checked out in London Heathrow from passenger no.131 W. Wagenführ).

    by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland

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  13. MISSION LOCKERBIE:
    computer "Babylon" translation german/english >>>

    Passenger Basuta, who got drunk at the Heathrow airport missed his plane. He say to the gate personal, he have checked in 1 Bag, but later the police found out that Basuta checked-in 2 Bags.
    See Production 201, the first page left column number 9, passenger Basuta J. M "2", seat 42K.
    That was the reason why 1 Bag too much was loaded on PA-103.

    The Lordships heard evidence from witness no.799 Kasteleiner.
    that of the 111 bags shown in that document, Production 1060, 25 were inter-line bags and a balance of 86 were checked-in bags at Frankfurt Airport.

    The number of 25 inter-line luggage items is wrong as can be proved ! From the alleged 25 inter-line luggage items were 12 of it on-line Bag's all from PanAm flights TXL Berlin.
    Importantly: the Bag Tray No. *B-8849 was an on-line bag from Panam Flight PA-643 and was checked out in London Heathrow !

    (* was not a "Bomb-Bag", transfered from AirMalta KM-180 into
    PA-103/B). The bag was checked out in London Heathrow from passenger no.131 W. Wagenführ).

    In which kind could the "Bomb Bag" transferred on the Main flight PanAm 103 in the airport Heathrow (LHR) ?
    We take the completions of the well-known drug transportation as example, which on PanAm flights from Heathrow to the USA, worked in each case:
    sorry only in German language:

    Auf welche Art konnte ein "Bomb-Bag" im Airport Heathrow (LHR)auf den "Main flight" PanAm 103 eingeschleust werden ?

    Nehmen wir als Beispiel die Abwicklungen der publizierten Drogen-Transporte, welche sich jeweils auf PanAm Flügen von Heathrow nach USA bewährt haben:

    Ein "Drug-Bag", meistens Marke "Samsonite", wurde mit der Fähre von einem Agenten vom Libanon nach Zypern gebracht. Dort wurde mit Hilfe von offiziellen Personen veranlasst, dass der Agent mit seinem begleiteten "Drug-Bag" ohne weitere Kontrolle in das jeweilige Flugzeug eingecheckt wurde um nach London-Heathrow zureisen.
    In Heathrow wurde durch einen Offiziellen die Aktion so gesteuert, dass das "Drug Bag" in einen der letzten zuladenden Container zu liegen kam. Sobald der Container jeweils in der Nähe der Ladelucke seinen Platz eingenommen hatte, wurde von einem Offiziellen das "Drug Bag" aus dem Container entfernt und zwischen der Aussenwand und des Container platziert. (Platz-Distanz 27 cm).
    Diese Abwicklung hatte sich bewährt, weil man bei Ankunft des Flugzeuges in den USA, sofort wusste wo das "Drogen-Bag" zufinden war.

    Mit dieser Abwicklungsart war es durchaus möglich ein "Bomb-Bag" anstelle eines "Drug-Bag" auf PanAm 103 einzuschleusen, die Expertiesen-Ansicht des "Frauninstitut" in Germany wäre somit zutreffend gewesen...

    Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland. website:www.lockerbie.ch

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  14. That was rude, Bunny, but funny.

    Do note, neither Edwiñ nor Mahñaz has ever been invited to sign the Justice for Megrahi petitions.

    We're gonna beat him to the $200 million and split it!

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  15. @Rolfe: The only source - apart from Wikipedia - I have for Mr Basuta's Indian nationality is Safia Aoude, who used to run the authoritative PanAm/Lockerbie website (now defunct) for nearly a decade.

    This is what Safia had to say about Mr Basuta:

    "Indian citizen Jaswant Basuta was another lucky passenger - notorious for missing his flights, he missed even this one while drinking beer with his brother-in-law at the airport. Thus he never made it to Pan Am 103 - but his luggage did, and after the crash he was questioned and withheld by British police as a suspect...."

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  16. That's hardly authoritative, Patrick. It also declares that Pik Botha "got off the plane".

    Mr. Basuta's US citizenship was specifically relied on by Pan Am as the justification for its manager's decision to allow the plane to leave the stand with his luggage still on board. None of the primary sources where this is discussed make any mention of his having dual citizenship or being naturalised, as far as I can see.

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  17. @Rolfe: if it's a choice between the word of a Pan Am manager and Safia Aoude, give me Safia every time!

    (Not only is she my Facebook friend, but also Ian Ferguson, Jim Swire and Robert Black's too.)

    What better recommendation can you get?

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  18. OK, Patrick's Facebook friend (who isn't even trying to be accurate) trumps someone giving evidence on oath in court about something which can be easily and conclusively verified.

    Right....

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  19. @Rolfe: The Truth.
    The Whole Truth.
    And Nothing But The Truth.

    Err....

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  20. Hello Caustic Logic,
    Petition for Mr Abdelbaset Al Megrahi to the Scottish Ministers:
    Mahnaz was no. 17 and I, Edwin Bollier, was no. 6 were the first which signed justice for Mr. Al-Megrahi on 9. Dec.
    Edwin Bollier

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