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 to 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Lockerbie, 1988 Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence John Ashton Edinburgh: Birlinn (www.birlinn.co.uk/), 2012, £14.99 W ithin days of the death of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi in May, Scottish First Secretary Alec Salmond had refused international appeals for an independent inquiry into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing for which the Libyan […]
[PDF file]: The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) ISBN 978 1 78027 648 9 John Booth Jim Swire prefaces his powerful and moving book with this arresting question: ‘How could initial faith in the establishment take thirty years to convert into distrust towards all […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] his website.(18) It’s a fairly selective account, though, omitting any detail of Galloway’s attack on him or the part he played in the rescuing of NUM funds. Lockerbie Following a lengthy review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi has been granted a second appeal against his conviction […]
[PDF file]: Lockerbie Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies Morag G. Kerr Leicester: Matador Books, £12.99, p/b www.troubador.co.uk/troubador A bout half of this book is a study of baggage-handling systems in airports. Another large chunk is about the forensic examination of the explosion and the attempt to determine where the bomb was placed […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
