A trip down Lockerbie memory lane, with Max Mazzucco

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Lockerbie Case: An Unsolved Mystery
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On the occasion of the series "Lockerbie" which is being broadcast on Sky, we are republishing this article of ours from 2009 .

What follows is an attempt to reconstruct the "behind the scenes" history between Libya, Britain and the United States that has revolved around the Lockerbie bombing for all these years.

Its alleged perpetrator, Abdul al-Megrahi, was recently released by Great Britain "on compassionate grounds" - as the official reason states - and repatriated to Libya. In reality, as we will see, it is now clear that al-Megrahi was only the scapegoat of the affair, and that he had nothing to do with the attack, while his release would have been the consequence of an urgent need on the part of the British, rather than a humanitarian gesture.

The story can be traced back to the 1984 attack on a Berlin nightclub, which killed two Turkish citizens and an American soldier. German authorities blamed "Libyan terrorism" for the attack, and Ronald Reagan thought that an appropriate response was to bomb Tripoli.

The real goal, of course, was to get rid of the colonel, who had been sitting proudly on millions of barrels of oil for years, which the Anglo-Americans were beginning to feel a strong nostalgia for (the first "oil crisis" dates back to 1973). Gaddafi was saved, but in the bombing, along with many other innocents, his two-year-old daughter, Hanna Gaddafi, died.

On December 21, 1988, Pan-Am Flight 103, from London to New York, exploded in mid-air over Scotland, killing 270 people. In addition to all the passengers and crew, 11 residents of the town of Lockerbie also died, when the wings and central part of the fuselage fell off.

After 3 years of investigations, carried out with the diligent collaboration of the FBI (more than half of the passengers were Americans), the Scottish court concluded that the perpetrators were two Libyans, Abdul al-Megrahi and Lamin Fhimah. The idea, not difficult to fuel, that the attack had been Gaddafi's revenge for the death of his daughter immediately began to circulate, and so the idea of ��"Libyan" attackers seemed to everyone the most natural in the world.

However, since there were no direct treaties between the two countries, the British could not officially request the extradition of the alleged culprits, so they instructed the men of MI-6 (the British CIA) to open extradiplomatic channels with Tripoli – the so-called "backdoors" – to obtain their handover in other ways.

In the meantime, a public escalation of accusations, blackmail and counter-accusations began, which culminated with a heavy series of international sanctions imposed on Libya by the UN, to obtain the delivery of the two alleged attackers. (Curious how it is always the oil-rich countries that end up blackmailed with embargoes and sanctions of all kinds.) But Gaddafi held firm, and after six years the men of MI-6 had not yet managed to open even a cat door, in the back of his fortress.

It so happened that in 1994 a "Libyan intelligence agent" showed up at the British embassy in Tunis, asking to speak to the local head of MI-6, and made him a very tempting proposal. He had at his disposal - he said - a handful of loyalists willing to do anything, ready to kill Gaddafi and take power. But he needed money to prepare the attack (weapons, bombs, logistics, etc.), and so he offered in exchange, if the British helped him overthrow the colonel, the delicious prey of the two Lockerbie attackers.

The MI-6 man, a certain David Watson, reported the matter to his London chief, Richard Bartlett. A few days later, the OK came from Bartlett, who said he had been given a "license to kill" by the Foreign Secretary, along with a $100,000 grant to pass on to the group of attackers.

We forgot to say that this group of attackers was called "Al-Queda", and was headed by a certain Osama bin Laden, the man who had organized the Afghan Mujaheddin for the CIA who had sent the Russians back home. (As it turned out, in fact, "Al-Queda" was the name of the CIA database with the names of all the Mujaheddin). It was in the name of bin Laden that the "Libyan intelligence agent" had introduced himself to Watson in Tunis. (This character has never been identified with certainty, but it is almost certain that it was Anas al-Liby, bin Laden's number 2, who at that time was living, curiously, in neighboring Sudan).

In other words, the British secret services financed bin Laden to kill Gaddafi. Only a child could believe the story of the unknown Libyan agent who showed up at the British embassy in Tunis, offering two men in exchange for a nation, and then left whistling three days later with $100,000 in his pocket. This is the merciful lie that had to be invented when the story of the attack on Gaddafi – which had failed in the meantime – became public knowledge. It was MI-5 agents Annie Machon (*) and David Shayler who denounced it, after learning about it from their colleagues at MI-6. It was a case of whistleblowing of the first magnitude, which unleashed a real uproar in Great Britain, as it embarrassed the country in front of the entire world. It is no coincidence that Machon and Shayler had to flee, remaining hidden for many months in a farm in the north of France, and then facing several years of tortuous judicial proceedings that have only recently concluded. If it had not been for them, no one would have ever known about the English attempt to kill Gaddafi, nor about other attacks against citizens of Israel, officially attributed to the Palestinians, which turned out to be the work of the Mossad.

After the failed attack on Gaddafi, the tug-of-war to have the two alleged Lockerbie attackers resumed as before, and in the long run the price paid for the sanctions became unbearable even for Gaddafi's pride. After long negotiations, Libya officially recognized "the responsibilities of our officials" (al-Megrahi was the head of security for Libyan airlines in London) and handed over the two suspects, on condition that they be judged in a neutral court, in Holland, in the presence of international observers.

At the Dutch trial, Fhimah was acquitted, while al-Megrahi was found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of twenty years to serve. Some will wonder how it was possible to even prove the identity of the attacker, starting from a simple pile of smoking wreckage. Well, when the FBI is involved, anything is possible: watch out, because the show is about to begin.

While rummaging through the wreckage, someone had noticed that a fragment of children's clothing, slightly burned but not too much, bore traces of explosives so heavy as to suggest that it had been used to wrap the bomb itself. Miraculously, however, the fabric still had the label, and from this it was possible to trace the seller, a merchant from Malta named Tony Gauci. When the FBI men went to visit him, Gauci suddenly remembered that he had sold children's clothing to a "Libyan looking man" - literally, "a man with a Libyan appearance" (as is well known, Libyans are completely different from all other Arabs) - 3 weeks before the attack. From there to identifying al-Megrahi, among about twenty "Libyan looking men" like him, it was a short step.

But that wasn't enough to convict him. The fact that the children's clothes were near the bomb didn't mean they had physically wrapped it. Tireless, the FBI men continued to investigate, until they discovered among the wreckage a fragment of an electrical circuit that is normally mounted on a certain model of Toshiba radio. It is the same model of radio - the FBI men pointed out - used by a Palestinian not long ago to make a Sentex-type bomb. Excellent intuition, but it still wasn't enough. Search, examine and analyze, and it turned out that another fragment of an electrical circuit recovered among the wreckage belonged to a timer similar to the one found on a Libyan agent, arrested a few months earlier, who was wandering around at night with a Semptex-type bomb in his pocket. Things were starting to get interesting, but the clues were still not enough.

Then came the final stroke of genius by the FBI agents, who from a fragment of a suitcase traced the model of Samsonite that had contained the bomb, realizing in the meantime that that very suitcase, loaded in London on the Pan-Am flight, had left from Malta. Now the circle was complete! All they had to do was put "Libyan + Semptex + timer + Samsonite + Malta", and a nice life sentence for poor al-Megrahi.

Despite his claim to innocence, and despite the UN's chief observer, Hans Köchler, calling the verdict a "spectacular miscarriage of justice," the world soon became convinced that the attack had originated in Libya. It was January 2001, a few months after September 11.

In the meantime, Gaddafi had settled down, had given up on making the atomic bomb, and had even become the "good example" of a domesticated Islamic that everyone else in the world had to imitate (Saddam was warned). To confirm his good intentions, Gaddafi committed to paying 2.7 billion dollars to the families of the victims (about 10 million dollars per family), but tying the payments to the definitive cancellation of sanctions against Libya, and to the removal of his country from the list of "rogue states". Most of that money ended up in the coffers of the prestigious American law firms that represented the families of the victims.

In 2002 al-Megrahi attempted to appeal, but his request was rejected for "inconsistency of the grounds". Al-Megrahi did not give up, and began – probably with external help – to collect all the documentation possible to prepare a second appeal, much more serious and well-organized than the first. His "counter-investigation" was so effective that in 2007 the Scottish Criminal Review Court ruled, to everyone's great surprise, that the case should be reopened. In the meantime, in fact, it had emerged that:

- Tony Gauci, the Maltese clothing dealer, had seen a photo of al-Megrahi 4 days before the recognition. Al-Megrahi's defense claims to have evidence that Gauci received $2 million for his testimony that led to the defendant's arrest.

- The Swiss technician who confirmed the timer was used in Semtex bombs has confessed to lying at trial, after rejecting an offer of $4 million from the FBI to make the statements. The technician also admitted stealing a copy of the timer from his company, to give it "to a man in charge of the investigation."

- The piece of electrical circuitry believed to be the timer turned out not to have even been tested for explosives.

- The famous "Samsonite from Malta" had been hanging around for 17 hours on an empty Heathrow carriage before being loaded onto the Pan-Am flight, and during that time it had been broken into by someone.

- Unfortunately, Heathrow police "lost" the documentation on that suitcase, so it is no longer possible to trace who handled it, let alone loaded it on board.

- The Lockerbie resident who found the Toshiba radio manual in the forest said the document presented at the trial was completely different to the one he had given to the police.

In short, we understand each other, there is no point in being cruel: the FBI still uses Edgar Hoover's techniques and manuals. The media, however, pretended nothing had happened, and the news of the Court of Review's verdict passed in relative silence. But the time for al-Megrahi's appeal had ripened in the meantime, and the date for the reopening of the trial had been set for last April. If that trial had taken place, al-Megrahi would most likely have been acquitted, and the English would have made a spectacular fool of themselves in front of the world. There was also the risk, not insignificant, that Gaddafi would then ask for the return of all the money paid to compensate the families of the victims.

That is why the British, in a sudden "compassionate spirit," decided to hastily repatriate al-Megrahi, initiating a complex legal procedure that required, first of all, that he withdraw his appeal. After this happened, al-Megrahi was sent home. End of story.

At this point, only one question remains: if it wasn't the Libyans, who put the bomb on Pan-Am 103? No one knows the exact answer, and the Internet is now teeming with "alternative theories" of all kinds, most of which were clearly put into circulation to confuse the waters (**). For those who don't want to delve into that treacherous forest, we can always suggest asking who it might have been convenient for, in all these years, to pass off Gaddafi's Libya as a "terrorist" state.

Max Mazzucco

* Annie Machon, 9/11 activist, denounces the attack on Gaddafi by the British secret services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUb7RKMu8zY

** Among these, the theory circulating is that the downing of the Pan-Am was Iranian revenge for a civilian airliner shot down by the Americans some time earlier.

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[abduLMaria]

The Magic Suitcase is a "Tell".

My guess is, the US dispatched investigators to investigate Generally Nefarious Activities.

They discovered it - but it involved PissraHell.

They couldn't be allowed to return home.

EASY SOLUTION !  for a Jew.  Just kill the investigators - and all the other Gentiles on the plane !


QUESTION - what role do Synagogues play in keeping Jews off a doomed plane ?

Do they sacrifice a few token Jews, or do they manage to protect all the Chosenites that were going to go on the plane ?