The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws
The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws
A tale of three atrocities signal from Flight 103 – probably halfway between Lockerbie and Shanwick. The insurance bomb was probably triggered using a pager, which is an effective and simple way to set off an explosion at a distance 38 . In 1988, there were probably more than 100,000 pagers in use in Britain 39 , and a national pager network had been in place for 10 years by 1989 4041 . Although remote from centres of population, Lockerbie is situated along the A74 - a main transport artery between London and Scotland. There is a long history of remotely triggered bombings, recently using mobile phones rather than increasingly outdated pagers. Among these were the 2004 Madrid train bombings, the 2002 Bali bombings, and the July 2002 bombing at a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. There is also no doubt that the CIA would have been capable of providing such a device. One senior CIA operative at the time, Robert Baer, when interviewed recently for a documentary on Lockerbie on Dutch TV, even volunteered the information that he had "spent years making bombs for the CIA." 42 I also know that he repeated this claim to an investigative journalist making a documentary for an international satellite TV channel, but it was strangely cut from the final transmission. **** Box out: Countdown to disaster [NOTE: second gap diagram. Accompanied by debris diagram] *** lThe investigation and framing Megrahi Within hours of the Lockerbie bombing, many CIA agents were spotted in the area 43 . Their job was to detract attention from the real culprits – Iran and themselves - by concocting and concealing evidence. The CIA intended to blame the PFLP GC for the Lockerbie bombing when the investigation began in December 1988. Their preferred culprit could have been Mohammed Abu Talb, an Egyptian-born Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) member who visited Malta in October 1988 or Abu Nidal. Indeed, Tony Gauci's description of the person who visited his shop in Malta and bought the clothes allegedly found in the suitcase didn't remotely resemble Megrahi, so it was likely that initially the CIA planned to blame someone else, or, at least, sent a very bad look-a-like to the shop to impersonate him. In the run-up to the Gulf War, however, it became clear to Bush and the CIA that it was no longer politically expedient to blame the Palestinians. Syria and Iran were US silent allies against Iraq, and the 38 Time (2004) A strike at Europe's heart http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/040322/story.html 39http://www.gare.co.uk/technology_watch/mobile.htm 40 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howpagerswork.html 41 http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:I5l7my6Aqs0J:www.pageonepager.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/02/paging-the-white-elephant.pdf+%22History+of+paging %22+uk&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjfCzsL7jOqeIOVX52rFQGjr6Qm4_uE6t7Z1ylkXvKWu7sZ9 HPgoezoFzlzYPQrQQI1ssNKA7x4jSV_Fj6oeFxO0Cn90E1I3TLNzWZpRZRSid0hU0XKHjcVq8L6EaiVPv5_9E9&sig=AFQjCNEww cs0KuYiU-08xtcb43Fp5nJyXw 42 Lockerbie Revisted, 2009 http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/41867169/media/41892895/ 43 Johnston, D. (1989) Lockerbie: The Tragedy of Flight 103, p.68 22
A tale of three atrocities PFLP GC were under Syrian protection 44 . The CIA had to find another culprit – they switched their attention to Libya and manufactured evidence against Megrahi. Libya was the favourite target of one CIA operative, I call *Tomas Cattermole, who had been involved in many operations against the country, including the 1986 bombing raid. lThe Toshiba manual The morning after the Lockerbie atrocity, a Northumbrian housewife discovered an instruction manual for a piece of electronic equipment in her garden. Decky Horton tried twice to hand the manual into the her local police, but they had little time to register her find. She lived in Longhorsely, Northumberland 89km east of Lockerbie, but, even there, the police were doubtless struggling to deal with the horrendous scenes at the site of the disaster. By Megrahi's trial in 2001, Mrs Horton's manual had conveniently metamorphosed into Arabic instructions for a Toshiba cassette recorder. Unfortunately, years after the event, it was unlikely she could be certain the Toshiba instructions she was shown in court were the same item she found in her garden. Furthermore, there are some suggestions the manual had been tampered with between her discovery and Megrahi's trial, for she could not recall that the manual had been so damaged 45 . I challenge anyone not to suspect CIA interference. According to a policeman PC Walton, who handled Mrs Horton's find, the manual was singed at the sides. How could a manual be in recognisable condition when it was allegedly in the same suitcase as a brisant explosion? It should have been totally destroyed. Furthermore, why did it travel so far? On the AAIB's debris map, Newcastleton is a long way from Lockerbie, and Longhorsely much further, nearly 90km in all. I have no doubt that Mrs Horton was genuine, but her innocent find was a gift to CIA agents seeking evidence to 'reinterpret'. lSuitcase? -suitcases! Five US intelligence officers died on board Flight 103, despite the CIA releasing the Helsinki warning to get US personnel off Pan Am flights. One of the CIA agents killed was Major Chuck McKee, a US army major working in Beirut, Lebanon; and another was Matthew Gannon, the CIA's deputy station chief in Beirut 46 47 48 49 . After the bombing, according to Marquise's book, CIA agents allegedly “acted strangely while securing the baggage of CIA employees.” 50 . According to one Lockerbie story, the CIA removed McKee's suitcase from the area of the crash and returned it to the Lockerbie investigation damaged – it had a hole cut in the side. The Scottish police, as you might imagine, were not happy to find the CIA tampering with Lockerbie evidence. 51 44 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFLP-GC 45 Sunday Sun (2008) Lockerbie evidence called into question http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-eastnews/2008/08/31/lockerbie-evidence-called-into-question-79310-21640187/ 46. McKee was a Major in the US Army working in Beirut; Crawford, John, Trafford, Victoria BC, Canada, 2002, The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective's Tale, p82 47 Or McKee was sent by Pentagon to the Lebanon to help rebuild that country's warn-torn military, Perry, Mark, Eclipse, William Morrow & Company Inc., 1992,New York, ISBN 0-688-09386-8, p161; worked for DIA 48 Or McKee was engaged on an operation to release Lebanese hostages (senior DIA source, said McKee was senior co-ordinator of a Special Forces group who were poised to make a rescue attempt on the American hostages in Beirut) Ashton, John and Ferguson, Ian, Cover-up of Convenience, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh and London, 2001, edn 2002, ISBN 1 84018 389 6, p25 49 Or McKee and his team were returning to Washington under a cloud and intended to confront the CIA when they arrived in Washington http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/07/iran-to-be-framed-for-lockerbiedid-cia.html 50 Marquise, R.A. (2006) Scotbom: Evidence and the Lockerbie investigation. Algora Publishing 51 Johnston, D, Lockerbie, The tragedy of Flight 103, St Martin's Press, New York, 1989 23
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signal from Flight 103 – probably halfway between <strong>Lockerbie</strong> and Shanwick.<br />
<strong>The</strong> insurance bomb was probably triggered using a pager, which is an effective and simple way to set<br />
off an explosion at a distance 38 . In 1988, there were probably more than 100,000 pagers in use in<br />
Britain 39 , and a national pager network had been in place for 10 years by 1989 4041 . Although remote<br />
from centres of population, <strong>Lockerbie</strong> is situated along the A74 - a main transport artery between<br />
London and Scotland.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a long history of remotely triggered bombings, recently using mobile phones rather than<br />
increasingly outdated pagers. Among these were the 2004 Madrid train bombings, the 2002 Bali<br />
bombings, and the July 2002 bombing at a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is also no doubt that the CIA would have been capable of providing such a device. One senior<br />
CIA operative at the time, Robert Baer, when interviewed recently for a documentary on <strong>Lockerbie</strong> on<br />
Dutch TV, even volunteered the information that he had "spent years making bombs for the CIA." 42 I<br />
also know that he repeated this claim to an investigative journalist making a documentary for an<br />
international satellite TV channel, but it was strangely cut from the final transmission.<br />
****<br />
Box out: Countdown to disaster<br />
[NOTE: second gap diagram. Accompanied by debris diagram]<br />
***<br />
l<strong>The</strong> investigation and framing Megrahi<br />
Within hours of the <strong>Lockerbie</strong> bombing, many CIA agents were spotted in the area 43 . <strong>The</strong>ir job was to<br />
detract attention from the real culprits – Iran and themselves - by concocting and concealing evidence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> CIA intended to blame the PFLP GC for the <strong>Lockerbie</strong> bombing when the investigation began in<br />
December 1988. <strong>The</strong>ir preferred culprit could have been Mohammed Abu Talb, an Egyptian-born<br />
Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) member who visited Malta in October 1988 or Abu Nidal.<br />
Indeed, Tony Gauci's description of the person who visited his shop in Malta and bought the clothes<br />
allegedly found in the suitcase didn't remotely resemble Megrahi, so it was likely that initially the CIA<br />
planned to blame someone else, or, at least, sent a very bad look-a-like to the shop to impersonate<br />
him.<br />
In the run-up to the Gulf War, however, it became clear to Bush and the CIA that it was no longer<br />
politically expedient to blame the Palestinians. Syria and Iran were US silent allies against Iraq, and the<br />
38 Time (2004) A strike at Europe's heart http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/040322/story.html<br />
39http://www.gare.co.uk/technology_watch/mobile.htm<br />
40 http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howpagerswork.html<br />
41 http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:I5l7my6Aqs0J:www.pageonepager.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/02/paging-the-white-elephant.pdf+%22History+of+paging<br />
%22+uk&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjfCzsL7jOqeIOVX52rFQGjr6Qm4_uE6t7Z1ylkXvKWu7sZ9<br />
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cs0KuYiU-08xtcb43Fp5nJyXw<br />
42 <strong>Lockerbie</strong> Revisted, 2009<br />
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/41867169/media/41892895/<br />
43 Johnston, D. (1989) <strong>Lockerbie</strong>: <strong>The</strong> Tragedy of Flight 103, p.68<br />
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