The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

A tale of three atrocities
served his maximum number of terms in office by 1988 and could not be re-elected. As US VP, Bush
was the CIA's obvious preferred successor.
Senior US officials led a secret delegation to meet five Iranian government officials. The venue for their
rendezvous was Glion - a small village outside Montreux, Switzerland. 11 There, they agreed a plan to
satiate the Iranians' burning desire for revenge on terms acceptable to the US.
lThe Swiss agreement
This plan was to blow up a full commercial plane from a leading US carrier to avenge the loss of Flight
655. This satisfied the Hammurabi code where it says “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye
shall be put out. [An eye for an eye ]” 12 A Pan American World Airways passenger flight was, therefore,
targeted because Pan Am was the US' “flagship” international carrier.
Only an Iranian government representative or family member of a Flight 655 victim was eligible to
avenge a Qesas crime. Therefore, an Iranian had to plant the bomb. However, the CIA could develop
and execute the plan, and manage the aftermath of the bombing.
The Iranians couldn't take credit for the bombing because, if their involvement became public
knowledge, Bush would be pressured to retaliate by his fellow Americans, especially those on the
nationalist and Republican right. So a scapegoat had to take the blame. Perhaps the Iranians agreed to
negotiate the release of hostages held in Lebanon, most famously Terry Waite 13 , when they were
satisfied the CIA had lined up a fall guy. Most of the hostages were released in November 1991 14 , the
same month that charges were made against Megrahi 15 . When the US blamed the Libyans, the
Iranians were off the hook.
It's likely the Iranians agreed to accept a reduced payout to the Flight 655 victims' families in exchange
for downing a US plane. Compared to payouts to relatives following Lockerbie and UTA, the Flight 655
payout was low. The average sum paid out per person on Flight 655 was just $160,000 - $300,000. In
contrast, the amount paid per life lost was $1 million for UTA and $10 million for Lockerbie.
The US may have also agreed to free Iranian assets that they had frozen in 1979. Some assets were
released in 1990, according to a press conference with the US Regional Reporters' Association 16 .
lWhere and when
Before leaving Switzerland, it's possible the delegations set up a time and place for the Iranians'
11http://gaiapost.blogspot.com/2008/09/us-iran-in-secret-talks-over-hostages.html
12 Code of Hammurabi – translation
http://www.holyebooks.org/babylonia/the_code_of_hammurabi/ham06.html
13 New York Times (1994) http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/08/world/iran-accuses-us-of-reneging-onhostage-deal.html
14 Guardian Century (1991) http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1999/Story/0,,112632,00.html
15 Independent (2009) http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christine-grahame-almegrahi-ishome-and-he-is-innocent-1776188.html
16 The President's News Conference With the Regional Reporters Association(1990) Quelle: Public Papers
of the Presidents of the United States of America. Bush; Bush Library
http://www.2plus4.de/USA/chronik.php3?date_value=13.06.90&sort=000-000
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