tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post4938077081569148464..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie and the claims of Magnus LinklaterRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-80598576176339990822016-01-29T14:13:33.419+00:002016-01-29T14:13:33.419+00:00He told me on Twitter that he had read the book, b...He told me on Twitter that he had read the book, but to be honest I didn't believe him at the time. This was shortly after he'd published an article which significantly misrepresented the content of the book. I suppose he'd had time to read it in between my challenging him and his claim to have read it (he doesn't answer tweets promptly), but I had my doubts.<br /><br />That was all some time ago though. The book isn't particularly long, and he's had ample opportunity to read it. It's impossible to tell from what he's writing now. He's stopped claiming that I base my case on Manly's evidence, but that could simply be because John Ashton and I both called him out on it and told him in no uncertain terms this was not the case.<br /><br />His dismissal of the book is so off-hand and so vague I really don't know where he's coming from. It's almost as if he's saying, well the Crown Office didn't read it and immediately throw the towel in, so there can't be anything significant in it. Which' coming from someone who claims to value investigative journalism, is quite bizarre.<br /><br />In the past week I have tweeted to him three or four times asking him to explain why he thinks I'm wrong, based on the physical evidence, but of course he hasn't responded.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206952819245786811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-49098313006098527842016-01-28T11:34:04.828+00:002016-01-28T11:34:04.828+00:00It's not common sense that shows it, or the as...It's not common sense that shows it, or the assumed barometric timer. It's a very precise reconciliation of all the blast-damaged suitcases to their owners and their travel arrangements, and then an equally precise study of the patterns of explosion damage on a number of key items.<br /><br />There is no doubt whatsoever that the bomb was in the case Bedford saw in the container at quarter to five, an hour before the feeder flight landed. It may be that this was missed by an inquiry very reluctant, or indeed under some political pressure, not to implicate poor security at Heathrow as the cause of the disaster.<br /><br />The Crown Office is currently trying extremely hard not to look at this uncomfortable fact, and not to acknowledge it. They are in a powerful positon of course.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-23647141462648426842016-01-28T10:48:57.590+00:002016-01-28T10:48:57.590+00:00I have lost count of the number of times I have re...I have lost count of the number of times I have read Dr Kerr's 'Adequately Explained by Supidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies', it takes a sledgehammer to the Crown's Libya case as was accepted by the judges to convict Mr al-Megrahi. Unless there is some evidence which was not revealed at the Zeist tribuneral, Dr Kerr's thesis is unassailable and light years beyond reasonable doubt in demonstrating that the bomb was ingested at Heathrow. The manner in which Mr Linklater consistently deals with Dr Kerr's arguments leads me to strongly suspect that he hasn't even gone so far as to read Terry Waite's foreword. Linklater is a mediocre scribbler at best, whose raison d'ĂȘtre is the preservation of the establishment at all costs.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-54908656437875178742016-01-27T20:42:00.618+00:002016-01-27T20:42:00.618+00:00Excellent reply Morag. The bomb was never put on a...Excellent reply Morag. The bomb was never put on at Malta, commonsense would ditact that and the barometric timer, yet Linklater and the Crowns Mullholland insist it was, which sugguests some form of collusion here to ensure Megrahi gets the blame. I haven't read your book but you have laid out enough in your letter to convinc3 me that you know what you are talking about. Putting the Lockerbie investigation up a gum tree (re Malta)allowed the real perptrators to cover their tracks. This helped the CIA to proceed with the planned regime change in Libya which was the real purpose from the very start. You laid your case out very well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08941540274712417938noreply@blogger.com