The Lockerbie Bomber is Dead

Cosimo said:
Is there something else that you're not telling us?
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Yeah I was trying to find an actual link, but the police are due to issue a report in the next few weeks and it's being reported that sources are saying it will pretty much state that the evidence used was shoddy at best and in some cases was fabricated.

It's not new information as such as everything has been public for years such as the dodgy circuit board and the only eye witness actually being paid by the FBI to testify, but it will be the first time the establishment will have actually acknowledged this.
 
Spit said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

Just read up about the disaster. Heart breaking to read that some of the passengers were alive during the fall :(
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just read that

Despite being advised by their governments not to travel to Lockerbie, many of the passengers' relatives, most of them from the US, arrived there within days to identify their loved ones. Volunteers from Lockerbie set up and staffed canteens, which stayed open 24 hours a day and offered relatives, soldiers, police officers, and social workers free sandwiches, hot meals, coffee, and someone to talk to. The people of the town washed, dried, and ironed every piece of clothing that was found once the police had determined they were of no forensic value, so that as many items as possible could be returned to the relatives. The BBC's Scottish correspondent, Andrew Cassell, reported on the 10th anniversary of the bombing that the townspeople had "opened their homes and hearts" to the relatives, bearing their own losses "stoically and with enormous dignity", and that the bonds forged then continue to this day.[33]
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I am amazed by the townspeople tbh that is an incredible response to such an event.
 
Jokester said:
Yeah I was trying to find an actual link, but the police are due to issue a report in the next few weeks and it's being reported that sources are saying it will pretty much state that the evidence used was shoddy at best and in some cases was fabricated.

It's not new information as such as everything has been public for years such as the dodgy circuit board and the only eye witness actually being paid by the FBI to testify, but it will be the first time the establishment will have actually acknowledged this.
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So all conspiracy theorists were right all along?
Hmm, that must be first time.
 
There has been a previous thread on this topic.
Mentioned then was Private Eye's investigation.

From the Eye archives
The Lockerbie Files

Issue 1246, 29th September 2009




The Libya ‘link’
So was Libya even involved in the Lockerbie bombing? The answer is that nobody knows. Libya certainly had a grim record in state-sponsored terrorism, but there was scant evidence to link it directly to Lockerbie at the Zeist trial. The links to Libya came from the suggestion that a fragment of a timing device which survived the blast was an MST-13 timer produced by a Swiss company, Mebo, which had supplied some to Libya. But it had also supplied them to East Germany; and in any event Libya could have sold them on. Libya could well have had links with the PFLP and PPF cells; but again there was no evidence of such a link.
So why, then, was all this evidence against the Syrian- and Iranian-backed PFLP and PPF ignored? As Paul Foot explained in Private Eye’s special report, Lockerbie: The Flight from Justice, initially they were pursued - for a solid 18 months, right up to the point of announcing that arrests were imminent. Then suddenly the political mood in the Middle East changed dramatically. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and the US/UN forces needed Arab support beyond their usual friends in Egypt. The Syrians were themselves worried about Hussein’s expansion in the area, and in November 1990 deals were signed to both neutralize Iran and to bring Syrian forces into the combined operation known as Desert Storm to reclaim Kuwait.

As Paul Foot described it, Lockerbie was to be played down and President Bush snr declared: “Syria took a bum rap on this.” No wonder no one now wants a public inquiry and the question remains: who was really behind the biggest ever terrorist atrocity on British soil?
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There was growing concern about his conviction and I think he was only released providing he dropped his appeal.

The Scots judiciary knew he would probably win the appeal, so saved themselves being brought in to disrepute by releasing him. Had the conviction been sound, he would have died in prison.

As said in previous posts, Gaddafi, CIA, Scots M'Luds fit up.
 
majestyk said:
There was growing concern about his conviction and I think he was only released providing he dropped his appeal.

The Scots judiciary knew he would probably win the appeal, so saved themselves being brought in to disrepute by releasing him. Had the conviction been sound, he would have died in prison.
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His team won the case for Govt. files to be seen. Cue Scottish Justice minister's trip to see the guy in prison and his release if he dropped his appeal.

As said in previous posts, Gaddafi, CIA, Scots M'Luds fit up.
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The reality is that if you wait until the perp's are dead, the information usually pours out.

Since Bush Snr is for most intents and purposes "dead", i imagine it wont take too long.
 
Ahleckz said:
British/American/French/Norweigan/Russian/Etc companies already had oil rights in Libya before this. Please read up on the situation before making ill-informed posts.
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While this is a reply to an old post, let me say this. After the release the times published a poll that stated 45% of Britons thought the release was more to do with oil, Which i agree with

you say us and other countries had oil rights before this. the key word here is HAD, what was stopping gaddafi revoking those rights if we didn't give him back?
 
opstrat said:
While this is a reply to an old post, let me say this. After the release the times published a poll that stated 45% of Britons thought the release was more to do with oil, Which i agree with

you say us and other countries had oil rights before this. the key word here is HAD, what was stopping gaddafi revoking those rights if we didn't give him back?
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Well then 45% of Britons and you don't know how the Scottish legal system works.
 
Whatever people might think, He was released because he was dying of prostrate cancer and Scottish Law allows a release due to compassionate ground on people with only a short time to live. Plenty of medical experts attested that he had less than 3 months, therefore he was released.

There was no conspiracy.
 
opstrat said:
enlighten me.
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Castiel said:
Whatever people might think, He was released because he was dying of prostrate cancer and Scottish Law allows a release due to compassionate ground on people with only a short time to live. Plenty of medical experts attested that he had less than 3 months, therefore he was released.

There was no conspiracy.
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The Scottish government actually came under intense pressure, particularly from the US not to release him.
 
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