The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

A tale of three atrocities
Spot the difference – the UTA and alleged Lockerbie bombs
• Bomb size: The alleged Lockerbie bomb was small (around 0.3 – 0.4kg), but the UTA bomb
was large (1.0kg)
• Explosive and casing: The alleged Lockerbie bomb used Semtex explosive, allegedly hidden
in a Toshiba cassette recorder, but the UTA bomb used a suitcase lined with Pentrite explosive
• Timer: The official Lockerbie investigation claimed the Lockerbie bomb used a Swiss-made
timer and a circuit board made in Holland, whereas the UTA bomb's timer was made in Taiwan
and sourced via a West German company
• Carry-on vs unaccompanied: The Lockerbie bomb was allegedly loaded onto a plane at
Malta without an accompanying passenger, whereas a Congolese national inadvertently carried
the UTA bomb as his luggage
• Detonator: An ordinary commercial detonator was found after the UTA bombing. A detonator
for Lockerbie has not come to light
Limited evidence
There are other reasons why Megrahi didn't carry out the Lockerbie bombing. Only three pieces of
evidence link Megrahi to Lockerbie, and all are contested. This compares with at least 23 pieces of
uncontroversial evidence linking the Libyans convicted of the UTA bombing with their crime. The three
pieces of evidence in Lockerbie are:
• The timer chip;
• The Giaka story;
• The purchase of clothes from Gauci's shop.
The timer chip
According to the evidence given at Megrahi's trial, fragments of a circuit board were found by police
near Newcastleton, a Scottish village on the border with England. It was identified with difficulty as a
fragment coming from a bomb timer circuit board similar to that carried by a Libyan intelligence agent
arrested in Senegal ten months before Flight 103 was destroyed. This electronic timer – a so-called
MST-13 timer – had MEBO printed on it, which stands for Meister & Bollier, a Swiss electronics firm.
Edwin Bollier, one of the firm's owners, testified at Megrahi's trial that he had sold 20 MST-13 timers to
Libya in 1985. He claimed he met Megrahi when he travelled to Libya at that time.
There are several problems with this evidence. First, Bollier testified at the trial that the Scottish police
had shown him a fragment of a brown circuit board from a prototype timer never supplied to Libya.
However, at the trial, he was asked to identify a sample of a green circuit board that MEBO had
supplied to Libya.
Second, on 18 th July, 2007 2 , MEBO's electronics expert, Ulrich Lumpert, swore an affidavit that he had
given false evidence about the timer at Megrahi's trial. He claims he stole a prototype MST-13 timer
circuit board from MEBO and gave it, without permission, to “an official person investigating the
'Lockerbie case'” 34 .
2 //plane-truth.com/mebo_breakthru.htm
3 lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2007/08/lumpert-affidavit.html
4 The Observer, 2/9/07, p. 37
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