[…] CIA and elsewhere who had defended it for over half a century would be revealed as fools or knaves. Similarly, having concocted the Libya-dunnit explanation of the Lockerbie bombing, this has to be maintained. The unfortunate Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the former Libyan intelligence officer arrested two days before the CIA files […]
[PDF file]: […] Sword Books, 2021, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The publisher offered me this and I thought, ‘Why not? There might be something interesting in it about Gaddafi and Lockerbie, for example.’ Sadly, there isn’t. Ms Sharab had considerable contact with the Libyan regime’s international politics and she tells us that in 20 years with Gaddafi […]
[…] in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not a million miles from which is the case of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian lecturer in Islamic Studies, being held by […]
[…] sexual assault made against former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 70 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics71 […]
[PDF file]: […] attack while clearing US Customs at Houston’s George Bush International Airport, returning from London. He was 56 and released a very controversial film debunking the US regime’s Lockerbie story. However even the official media is full of reports about espionage against ostensible friends and allies of the US regime. 6 There has been no […]
[…] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]
[…] Russian-backed Ukrainians did it, despite an almost complete lack of evidence, are stuck with their initial decision. And great powers do not admit their errors: think of Lockerbie, or the downing of the Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes in 1988.2 7 Which means that if the US intelligence community does finally conclude that […]
[PDF file]: […] that the US government or its corporations found objectionable or an obstacle. The two most infamous fabrications were the so-called LaBelle disco bombing in Berlin and the Lockerbie aircraft bombing. Both of these events were attributed to Libya and hence to Qaddafi without the slightest verifiable proof. Although to this day no unimpeachable evidence […]
[PDF file]: […] Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with friends in Oxford,’ she has written. […]
[…] the arrest of Daniella Klette in Germany might be more interesting to you than you first think. There are two parts of a seven part series on LOCKERBIE based on the documentary I first tried to make with STV and then, post the debacle with John Banks, with Sean Stone, who I have sort […]
