The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

A tale of three atrocities
“The Crown suggestion that the brief telephone call to the second accused's [Megrahi's] flat on the
morning of 21 December can, by a series of inferences, lead to the conclusion that he was at the
airport is, in our opinion, wholly speculative... In these circumstances, the second accused falls to be
acquitted.” 6
Without Fhimah's help, how would Megrahi have got the suitcase onto the Air Malta Flight 180? It's not
clear an unaccompanied Samsonite suitcase ever travelled on the Air Malta flight. In 1989, Air Malta
released a statement claiming all luggage on the flight was accounted for.
Air Malta also won a libel action against Granada TV, when the television company repeated the
allegations of a Pan Am loader that a bag had come from an Air Malta flight.
For a time, all these inconsistencies perplexed me. But then it occurred to me. It was odd that two
completely different disasters were being blamed on Libya. Why shouldn't one of these disasters be
Libya's fault while the other was not?
It seemed UTA was credibly the fault of Libya without any doubt whatsoever. Yet I was seeing all the
evidence for Megrahi carrying out the Lockerbie bombing slowly slipping and draining away. I became
afraid that a conviction could not be upheld in the long term and the courts would have to retreat from
blaming Libya. When that happened, I didn't want Gaddafi denying blame for UTA too.
I contacted Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who was making a fuss about Lockerbie, with my concerns about
Megrahi's guilt. I received a strange phone call where he said “Charles, you are opening Pandora's
Box". During the next eight years, I would learn what he meant as I discovered who was to blame for
the bombing.
Who did Lockerbie?
Introduction
I now know that Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by an Iranian using a plot conceived, designed and
implemented by senior staff at the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The decision to destroy the
plane was made by the White House, following a secret agreement between senior US government
officials and five Iranian emissaries.
How do I know this? For an investigator, I've been very passive – I haven't woken up ancient
investigators in their dotage to ask what they really got up to. It's been a paper exercise. All the
information with the exception of odd questions to Mr Bollier and Mr Marquise, the FBI lead
investigator, is in the public domain. In the early days, it was painful work, often using French
dictionaries. I used newspapers and got official paperwork translated.
I began my investigations almost immediately after my brother's death, initially as a conduit for the
other families, sourcing information on UTA with the aid of my brother's unusual friends. One was a
lovely man who turned up unexpectedly on my doorstep the morning after his death and asked if I
wanted some 'real news'. He pulled out a suitcase, unplugged the telephone, attached an audio
coupler and hacked into the news feed of one of the BBC's foreign correspondents to find news about
UTA. Then he tracked down all the other UTA families from the UK and, that evening, I called them all
and offered them a news service. It was leading edge stuff for 1989, but obtaining information was
slow. Over time, I've uncovered more and more using the power of the web.
lWhy Iran wanted to down a plane
When you blame someone for a bombing – you need a proper hypothesis to explain why they did it.
6 Lord Sutherland Lord Coulsfield Lord MacLean Case No: 1475/99 OPINION OF THE COURT delivered by
LORD SUTHERLAND in causa HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/library/lockerbie/index.asp
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