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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 27 Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross Peter Smith Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus-- the 'octopus'-- has become. From the start there have been many awkward and unanswered questions about the Lockerbie affair. Why were the widely-signalled warnings of the possibility of a bomb being placed on a Pan-Am flight ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 360 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-04.htm
... might ring a bell because this is the group, an al-Qaeda affiliate we are told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was 'the mad dictator', some time funder of the IRA and head of the regime which organised the Lockerbie bombing. But the great engine of state trundles on and things change. Libya 'accepted responsibility' for the Lockerbie bombing (while continuing to deny that they had done it), offered compensation to the victims' families, gave up their nuclear ambitions (whatever that amounted to), to emerge, born again, free of sanctions ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-30.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 Foreign Agent 4221: The Lockerbie Cover-up William C. Chasey ProMotion Publishing, 3368 F Governor Drive, Suite 144, San Diego, CA 92122, $19.95. ISBN 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. after the Lockerbie bombing and the subsequent scapegoating of Libya. (The rationality of this project is not discussed by Mr Chasey.) This is the story of his attempts to earn his vast fee, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 89 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-16.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 28 In Brief The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults in investigative history. Let one example suffice: his own prime suspect throughout his Sunday Times series in 1989, Abu Talb, gets a first mention on page 174. Turning his back on his excellent earlier work on this case- I am indebted to him ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-01.htm
... centre of international terrorism was so successful that British agreement was secured for bombing raids, from British bases, on Gaddafi's family and military targets in April 1986.(6) Two and a half years later, after early clear evidence of the culpability of Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the finger of guilt for the Lockerbie air disaster was pointed at Libya.(7) The demonisation of Libya, justified or not, was complete. 'The bullet was not fired from the embasssy.'We can now turn to the new Channel Four analysis of the key events in St James's Square. The combined evidence of many distinguished experts, including Professor Bernard Knight ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 60 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-08.htm
... he embarrass the American 'friends'.* To get rid of Murray a smear campaign was generated against him. I admire Murray but you have to wonder how he arrived at the age of 40 plus, after 20 years working for HMG's foreign service, and had not realised what would happen if he tried to oppose American foreign policy. Lockerbie T he recent events over Lockerbie illustrate the taboo status of anything which might point out the gulf between the fantasy and real American foreign policy. Even though hardly anyone believed the Libya-did-it story,2 even though creating and sustaining it involved corrupting the English and Scottish legal systems, the British state went along with the fairy story so crudely ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-087.pdf
... the story as the 'Libyans admitted it'; and the Libyans can deny they did anything such thing. An obvious point not made by the journalists' reporting of this story is this: the British state would not have reestablished diplomatic and economic relations with Libya if they thought there was the slightest chance that the two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing would be found guilty. Given that the trial is taking place under the Scottish legal system, what are the odds that the outcome will be that unique Scotish verdict 'not proven'?(1) The simplest explanation is that the UK is once again being the proxy for the Americans, bringing Libya back into 'the international community ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-09.htm
... conduct American foreign policy.( [1]) My initial reaction was: well, what did he think he would be doing? Where is this independent British foreign policy he thought he was going to serve? There appears to be nothing that the British state won't do to further the interests of American foreign policy. Look at the Lockerbie bombing story in which evidence was planted and faked( [2] )andwitnesses were nobbled( [3]) in a prosecution so stinky that the chief law officer of Scotland resigned rather than present the case.( [4]) In MarchThe Scotsman carried the comments of Juval Aviv, PamAm's senior Lockerbie investigator.( [ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 50 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-10.htm
... /2 Last| Contents| Next Issue 42 Eye Spy! Alex Cox How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith's at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot's fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy at any branch of Smith's. 'Oh, go on,' I said, recalling the Eye's long battle against W. H. Smug's and knowing that there were no Lockerbie mags on sale in any Smug's I'd visited. 'No!' the poor fellow insisted, 'We're paying ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 39 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-39b.htm
10. Spooks [Lobster #41 (Summer 2001)]
... book rather than hold an independent inquiry, which would have vindicated MI5 at the expense of Wright. As a result of not investigating the claims to refute them, many people, including many journalists, still believe Wright was telling the truth.' This is the David Shayler who has been blithely telling the world that the Libyans did the Lockerbie bombing because while at the Libyan desk he had seen documents from his American colleagues claiming so. I do not propose to rehearse yet again the story of the various tales of the 'plot' told by Wright; nor why this final version- told to John Ware- should be ignored; nor why this matters so little in our ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-22.htm
