[…] 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 […]
[…] Martin; plus new books and the Flatland catalogue. $20 for four issues from PO Box 2420, Fort Bragg, CA 95437-2420. Web site www. flatlandbooks.com; e-mail flatland @mcn.org Lockerbie crash On the Lockerbie crash a big piece has appeared in Covert Action Quarterly No 66 by William Blum. That issue also includes Diana Johnstone on […]
[…] 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 () and witnesses were nobbled () in a prosecution so stinky that the chief law officer of […]
CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the other names in the address book. Sir Stephen Runciman 18 Elmtree Road St. John’s Wood London W8 Phone – Cunningham 0010 Sir Steven Runciman Elshieshields, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire Scotland Tel: Lochmaben 280 66 Whitehall Court London SW1 WHITEHALL 3160 EXT 68 Shaw, as can be seen, spells the first name two ways. The […]
[…] acutely discomfited by the fact that genuinely stupid people can get to be president in the land of the brave and home of the free. Libya and Lockerbie In ‘Lockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims’, The Glasgow Herald reported some comments by Michael Scharf, who was the counsel to the […]
[…] death of Abu Nidal in August became the peg for two different pieces of disinformation. The first was in The Sunday Times 25 August 2002, ‘Gaddafi “plotted Lockerbie bombing with Abu Nidal”‘, in which a ‘former aide’ to Nidal who ‘declined to be named’ said that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing and gave the […]
[…] the Guardian, London Review of Books and Private Eye – and a selection from the Socialist Workers’ Party’s publications. The subject matter ranges from major pieces about Lockerbie and Colin Wallace, a collection of savage attacks on the Blair crew, through individual scandals (notably his brilliant assault on Jeffrey Archer in the Evening Standard […]
[…] in my files from the same Con Coughlin, headlined ‘Gaddafi “was praised for jet bombing”‘, about a letter, purporting to have been written, two days after the Lockerbie bombing, by the former head of Libya’s diplomatic mission in London, praising Gaddafi for the bombing. (3) Somebody with a lot of patience could sit in […]
