The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

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A tale of three atrocities
Shortly after 23:05 on 20 th December 1988, I believe an Iranian broke through a door in Heathrow
Terminal 3 that separated the landside and airside parts of the terminal. Thinking logically about it, he
must have been disguised as a minor airport functionary, maintenance man or airline worker so he
would not be stopped as he walked through the airport complex to the Interline building.
Once there, he would have to identify the baggage containers due to be loaded onto Flight 103. This
would be relatively easy because, according to a former baggage handler, baggage containers are
arranged in the order they will be loaded onto outgoing flights. The baggage container the CIA must
have told the Iranian to look for was AVE4041 PA, which would be loaded at position 14L 21 and
contained first class and Frankfurt transfer luggage.
Once he reached the baggage container, he might have needed to fine tune the bomb timer. Pan Am
flights to New York had several possible flight paths, depending on weather conditions, so the Iranian
would have checked the weather forecast and adjusted the time of the explosion accordingly.
The bomb must have been disguised as though it was a repair patch for a baggage container (see
figure of Air France patches). The bomb was stuck to the wall near the bottom of AVE4041 PA at
around 11:30pm on 20 th December 1988.
Let us imagine that Mr Manly the security guard patrolled the security barrier every hour and took an
hour to finish his patrol. He discovered the break-in at approximately 00:05 on 21 st December 1988,
meaning there was more than enough time for someone to break-in, place a device in the Interline
shed, and leave again, between 23:05 and the break-in being discovered.
It seems an amazing coincidence that such a serious break-in would occur at Heathrow the day before
a terrorist bomb destroyed a plane flying from the airport. After two or three years of thinking it through,
I believe this is how the Lockerbie bomb was loaded onto Flight 103.
The Zeist appeal decided the break-in and the destruction of the aircraft were too remote (I think they
meant in time). But the first trial accepted the timer had run for at least 12 hours, so why the 18 hours
implied by the Heathrow break-in was impossible, I can't understand.
The official Lockerbie investigation claimed the bomb was concealed in a suitcase. Our Iranian,
however, couldn't have brought a suitcase into Heathrow. It would have been too conspicuous. So the
bomb must have been around 20 x 20 cm in size and concealed under a heavy, winter coat.
Furthermore, according to a former baggage handler I spoke to, if the bomb was in a suitcase it would
have been spotted on the morning of 21 st December by Heathrow baggage handlers. If it wasn't
revealed to be a bomb and was correctly labelled, it would have been put onto the first flight leaving
Heathrow. But Flight 103 was the third Pan Am scheduled flight from Heathrow to New York's John F.
Kennedy International Airport on 21 st December.
Once I saw the link between the break-in and the Lockerbie bomb, I was suddenly able to place a
speech by Transport Minister Paul Channon in context. He told Lockerbie families the device “may
have been among the baggage from the Frankfurt flight”. This gives the impression that the bomb was
20http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/1817752.stm 11 February 2002
21 AAIB report on Lockerbie
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