Thursday 15 October 2015

Investigators to interview Lockerbie suspects

[This is the headline over a report (behind the paywall) in today’s edition of The Times. It reads as follows:]

Scottish prosecutors are poised to announce a breakthrough in their investigation into the Lockerbie bomb plot.

They believe they have identified a group of Libyans who were involved along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270 people in December 1988.

Frank Mulholland, the lord advocate, has agreed a joint course of action with Loretta Lynch, the US attorney-general. They have requested permission from the Libyan authorities to travel there with a view to interviewing the suspects as soon as the political situation on the ground allows it.

The move follows a six-year investigation undertaken after al-Megrahi dropped his appeal against conviction in August 2009 and was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds to return to Libya. He died there in 2012 from prostate cancer.

It is the first time the Crown Office, which always stressed that the Lockerbie inquiry remains “live,” has confirmed that members of the group that planned and helped carry out the bombing were still alive and in Libya.

Last month The Times reported that an American TV documentary was naming several suspects. Ken Dornstein, whose brother died in the bombing, was responsible for the three-part series aired on the US Public Broadcasting Service.

After a 25-year investigation, he claimed to have identified the bomb-maker as Abu Agila Mas’ud, who is being held in a Libyan prison, accused of unrelated terrorist activities.

Another suspect, Abdullah al-Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and head of intelligence, is also behind bars in Libya, sentenced to death.

Mr Dornstein told The Times that he believed Nasser Ali Ashour, a Libyan intelligence officer who supplied the IRA with explosives and weaponry in the 1980s, was also a suspect.

It is not known whether any of these are among the suspects the Scottish and US authorities wish to interview. The crown office refused to confirm or deny whether they were on the list.

[A response by John Ashton to Ken Dornstein’s findings can be read here.]

6 comments:

  1. DOSSIER LOCKERBIE, 2015 > google translation, German/ English:
    Ken Dornstein, in his assertion film "My Brother's Bomber", brings no new evidence. All what he serves is by hear say or deliberately claimed !
    The „Lockerbie Affair“ is a dirty work of pointed misinformation and reverse engineering that went wrong. As the case is still open in USA, United Kingdom and Switzerland. The authorities will sooner or later accept the fact that the "Evidence Fraud" around the MST-13 Timer (PT-35) and the "Toshiba" Radiorecorder is real and not fiction, or just another weird conspiracy theory.

    Thanks to unprofessional manipulated (PT-35) evidence, Libya and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, can definitely not be blamed for the „PanAm 103 bombing“. Also Mebo Ltd must be cleared from the unfair and damaging allegations.
    Thank GOD – that on June 22nd, 1989, ex-engineer Ulrich Lumpert (Mebo Ltd) did not hand over a green Thüring MST-13 circuit board (9 layers of fiberglass). Instead he gave a brown prototype circuit board with 8 layers of fiberglass to an official oft the Swiss Federal Police (BUPO). This will turn out to become the key for the truth!

    The Libyan official who had served under Col Muammar Gaddafi's government named "Abu Agila Masud", was identified by Ken Dornstein as the "man with very dark skin". Ken Dornstein is giving in his documentary film the premature impression that this man is - together with Abdelbaset al Megrahi - responsible for the attack on PanAm 103 over Lockerbie.
    Abu Agila Masud was not convicted to death, in a trial in July, 2015 in Tripoli. It is now up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to judge if Dornsteins premature allegations can be backed by evidence.
    If Mr. Ken Dornstein, for his late brother David Dornstein strives honestly, the truth, to find by a neutral investigation about "My Brother's Bombers," Dornstein must deal first, exclusively (100%) with the ultimate "indoctrinated" manipulated MST-13 timer fragment puzzle (PT-35 >> PT-35/b >> DP-31/a).
    Here is the truth and only the truth about the false Scottish court ruling (Miscarriage of Justice) against the innocent, unfortunately deceased, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi!

    Abdel Basset Al Megrahi & Libya have nothing to do with the attack on PanAm 103 over Lockerbie! Mr. Al Megrahi was innocent in prison 10 years - He remains the political victim No. 271!
    Please visit Information link, Clearing House: Lockerbie : $2.7 billion Sham and Shame !

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4460.htm

    Before the film and an article at the American magazine the "New Yorker" was published, I (Edwin Bollier, MEBO AG) have answered on this complex the following question -- and what has been made of it:. The answer is published on Link:
    http://www.lockerbie.ch/2015/21387.html

    by Edwin Bollier & MEBO AG Switzerland. Webpage www.lockerbie.ch


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  2. And it's not even 21st December. Why the rush?

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      Interesting and informative comment deleted.

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  4. Hi! Person who proved the bomb was introduced at Heathrow here. John Ashton's book is excellent of course, but can I give mine a shout out too please, because it goes even further.

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  5. DOSSIER LOCKERBIE, 2015 - google translation, German/English:

    If the assertion by filmmaker Ken Dornstein, against the Libyan ex official, "ABU Agela" (Abu Agila Masud) - for the FBI, Department of US Justice and the Scottish Police/ Justice UK, is in accordance with the truth, must the United States District Court of Columbia and the Justice of Scotland UK, by the head of the Tripoli Government, 'Khalifa Ghwell', demanded immediately, with a new indictment against Abu Agela, for a extradition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague

    The Libyan official who had served under ex Col. Muammar Gaddafi's government named "Abu Agila Masud", was identified by Ken Dornstein, as the "man with very dark skin". Ken Dornstein is giving in his documentary film the premature impression to the world population, that this man is - together with Abdelbaset al Megrahi - responsible for the attack on PanAm 103 over Lockerbie...

    Abu Agila Masud, was not convicted to death, in a trial in July, 2015 in Tripoli, therefore it must not be a problem to extradite him. It is now up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to judge, if Dornsteins premature allegations can be backed by evidence.

    If Mr. Ken Dornstein, for his late brother David Dornstein will find the truth, Dornstein must deal first, exclusively (100%) with the ultimate "indoctrinated" manipulated MST-13 timer fragment puzzle (PT-35 >> PT-35/b >> DP-31/a).
    Here is the truth and only the truth about the false Scottish court ruling (Miscarriage of Justice) against the innocent, unfortunately deceased, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi an Libya !

    Al Megrahi & Libya have nothing to do with the attack on PanAm 103 over Lockerbie ! Mr. Al Megrahi was innocent in prison 10 years - He remains the political victim No. 271!
    Was Dornstein's film made about the guilty conscience, because of the acceptance of blood money of US $ 2.7 billion to satisfy ?
    Please visit information link, Clearing House: Lockerbie : $2.7 billion Sham and Shame !
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4460.htm

    by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd Telecommunication Switzerland, webpage: www.lockerbie.ch

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