tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post8537866277960349253..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Rouhani's tweet indicates Iran was to blame for LockerbieRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-34429391057912006812020-05-08T08:36:24.992+01:002020-05-08T08:36:24.992+01:00Rouhani is a UK citizen who is a freemason. He li...Rouhani is a UK citizen who is a freemason. He lived in Scotland for 5 yearsThe end is nearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290161193217527610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-83183438009803638912020-01-08T17:59:51.049+00:002020-01-08T17:59:51.049+00:00The mood music at the moment seems to be an accept...The mood music at the moment seems to be an acceptance that while Iran may have orchestrated the bombing of PA103, this was done by using Libya (and by inference Megrahi) as a paid catspaw. This is of course utter nonsense, but the reluctance to admit that the entire investigation was an expensive farce that indicted the wrong men is difficult to shift.<br /><br />It's not even as if the probable sequence of events, that Iran actually used the PFLP-GC as its paid catspaw, was unknown to the investigators. That's exactly what they believed for the first 18 months or so of the investigation, and the line of inquiry they were following during that time (albeit that they were assuming the wrong modus operandi). It's astonishing how the possibility that the investigation was initially right about the identity of the culprits and their motivation and made a mistake when they abandoned that theory can't now seem to get any traction.<br /><br />It's really quite simple, I think. They had the right suspects, but the wrong modus operandi. They couldn't find the evidence they needed because they were looking for the right people in the wrong place (Malta instead of London). Rather than re-focus the inquiry on London, which would have involved acknowledging that lax security at Heathrow was to blame for the atrocity, they doubled down on Malta, and eventually managed to cobble together an extremely shonky case against people who had nothing to do with it, but happened to be in the right place (from the skewed perspective of the investigators) at the right time.<br /><br />I think Iran was content enough at the time that the people who mattered knew that revenge had been taken, and didn't particularly care about what the official explanation said. However, over 30 years later the false assertion that it was all Gaddafi's doing has necome pretty embedded, and I think they may feel now that they need to reassert their responsibility to remind the USA that Iran is not to be trifled with.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.com