Pierre Salinger -- Mossad -- Al Megrahi ?
Sarah Parker -- Fri, Feb 02, 2001
Why were diplomatic and security warnings about the bombing never made public, even through some diplomats were warned not to travel ? Why were so many bookings all of a sudden cancelled in the days before December 21, leaving the pre-christmas flight only two-thirds full at a peak time?
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Kate Winsford -- Fri, Feb 02, 2001
Six months before Lockerbie ,the American warship USS Vincennes accidently shot down an Iranian Airbus, killing 290 people. Iran vowed the skies would "rain of blood".
Lucy Late -- 11/9/2001
The father of one of the Lockerbie victims has called for a public inquiry into the disaster after new claims about safety at Heathrow Airport before the bombing.
Dr Jim Swire, whose 23 year old daughter Flora died, said the claims of a Heathrow security guard raised questions about the police investigation after the tragedy that killed 270 people.
The Security guard Mr Ray Manly told police Pan Am's baggage area was broken into on December 21, 1988, 17 hours before the airline's Flight 103 took off for New York.
The Mirror newspaper said Mr Manly reported the break-in at the time and was interviewed by anti-terrorist officers the following month.
Al Megrahi has since been given leave to appeal against his conviction.
Dr Swire told GMTV the new claims added to his continued calls for a full public inquiry.
He said: "These kind of aspects not only show failures at Heathrow, they bring questions that serious mistakes have been made during the (police) inquiry.
"As soon as the appeal process is over we want a full inquiry into why Heathrow didn't take full steps to protect our loved ones."
Dr Swire said the fact the plane had been loaded from empty at the London airport also showed the need for the British government to set up an inquiry to determine exactly what happened.
CTB -- 11/9/2001
I bet the libyians are laughing thier socks off, this would pretty much make the appeal a for gone conclusion if it is proved that evidence was kept back from this high profile and expenive trial, was this the evidence Gadafy mentioned back in February?
Many questions have to be asked about the head hunt that preceeded these awful terrorist actions by the Americans and British, can we be sure it was the Lybians now? What we can be sure of is that the American bombing of Lybia killed inocent people, but did we get the right country?
Simon Smith -- 26/3/2002
The Commons' longest serving MP has told the House that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is innocent.
Labour's Tam Dalyell called on the Government to examine the case following claims that vital documents had gone missing in the investigation.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi this month lost his appeal at a Scottish court in the Netherlands against his conviction for the biggest mass murder in British history.
Mr Dalyell, using Parliamentary privilege in a Commons debate, questioned Megrahi's conviction: "This Easter, an innocent man, innocent of the monstrous crime he was found guilty of committing, languishes in Barlinnie prison in Glasgow.
"His name is Abdelbaset Al Megrahi. Before Parliament rises, the House ought to get an undertaking that the British Government, yes the British Government, and not a highly controversial devolved Crown Office in Edinburgh, will address certain qu estions."
He said that not one of the 129 members of the Scottish Parliament had been prepared to take a "sustained, in-depth view" of the Lockerbie case.
Some 270 people died when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie on December 21 1988.
Andy Hill -- 30/4/2002
The leader of Libya is said to be ready to offer "substantial" compensation to the families of those who died in the Lockerbie bombing.
A report in Time magazine, published on Tuesday, says Colonel Gaddafi could be willing to pay as much as $3.5bn (?.4bn).
He has always denied involvement in the attack, but is thought to be keen to strike a deal which would end the UN sanctions on his country.
The terrorist atrocity in 1988 resulted in the death of 270 people, 259 on board Pan Am 103 and 11 from the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Libyan agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing and in March he failed to have his murder conviction overturned.
A letter obtained by the magazine to the victims' relatives from a lawyer negotiating with Libyan officials in Paris suggests Col Gaddafi plans to make the deal.
Britain and the US have been involved in talks with Libyan officials since the Lockerbie trial ended last year, to agree a compensation deal for the victims' relatives.
Billy -- 05/6/2002
Nelson Mandela is to visit the Libyan man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Mandela played a crucial role in persuading Colonel Gadhafi to hand over two men suspected of involvement in the 1988 bombing that killed 270 for trial.
Former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years.
Mandela, who has close relations with Gadhafi, plans to visit al-Megrahi in prison in Glasgow early next week.
Libyan television said Mandela had phoned Gadhafi to tell him of his plans to visit al-Megrahi and check his health and his detention conditions.
Darren -- 10/6/2002
Nelson Mandela has been meeting the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing at a Glasgow prison.
The former South African president travelled by motorcade to Barlinnie Prison to meet Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.
The motorcade drove slowly into the prison, with Mr Mandela sitting in a vehicle with darkened windows.
Mr Mandela played a key role in persuading Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to hand over two suspects for trial for the 1988 attack, which killed 270 people.
Al-Megrahi was moved to Barlinnie in March.
Megrahi was convicted last year of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
His appeal against that guilty verdict was rejected in March, and since then he has been held in Barlinnie Prison.
Mr Mandela has been keen to see the conditions under which the Libyan intelligence agent is being held at the jail.
Shortly after Mr Mandela's arrival, Megrahi's wife Aisha and family entered the prison.
Labour MP Tam Dalyell said Mr Mandela felt a degree of responsibility for Megrahi because he had been instrumental in arranging for the trial to take place.
He speculated that Mr Mandela may ask Megrahi what he was doing in Malta at the time of the bombing a question he had also put to the Libyan on a recent visit to Barlinnie.
Anna -- 25/7/2002
The Government has rejected calls from MPs for a public inquiry into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
In a late night Commons debate, Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien faced calls for a new bid to uncover the full truth of the outrage.
A total of 270 people died when the Pan Am jumbo jet was brought down by a bomb over the Scottish town on a flight from London to New York.
Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is serving a life sentence in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison for the murders. But campaigner and MP Tam Dalyell said he believed there had been a "catastrophic miscarriage of justice".
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Regarding Pierre Salinger
Lockerbie trial adjourns
Tuesday, 21 November, 2000, 11:59 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1033601.stm
. . . Earlier, a senior American journalist told the trial that he knows who carried out the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
But Pierre Salinger, former chief foreign correspondent for the ABC network, was infuriated when the court would not allow him to name who he believed was to blame.
Mr Salinger said: "I know that these two Libyans had nothing to do with it. I know who did it and I know exactly why it was done."
He was based at ABC's London office when the two accused were indicted in 1991.
The court heard that Mr Salinger, who appeared as a prosecution witness, had interviewed the two standing trial.
Bomb journey
Judges were shown extracts from the interview in which Mr Megrahi strongly denied being involved.
He added he had never been a member of the Libyan intelligence agency, and his family and countrymen would be "ashamed" to do such a job.
Mr Megrahi said he had not been in Malta on the day the bomb began its journey to Heathrow via Frankfurt.
Mr Salinger was then asked about how he had obtained the meeting, but he was stopped from giving his views on the case.
After Alan Turnbull QC, prosecuting, and defence counsel William Taylor QC and Richard Keen QC finished their questioning, the trial judge, Lord Sutherland, asked Mr Salinger to leave the witness box.
The broadcaster said: "That's all? You're not letting me tell the truth.
Charges denied
"Wait a minute, I know exactly who did it. I know how it was done."
Lord Sutherland interrupted and told the witness: "If you wish to make a point you may do so elsewhere, but I'm afraid you may not do so in this court."
The two men deny three charges, of conspiracy, murder and Contravening the Aviation Security Act 1982.
The defence says that Palestinian terror groups, not the Libyans, were responsible for the attack.
Mr Salinger was one of the last witnesses for the prosecution, which has previously called a Libyan spy and secret agents from the CIA and Stasi.
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Prosecutors Case?
Lockerbie: the crucial evidence
Mark Oliver -- Wednesday January 31, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Lockerbie/Story/0,2763,431456,00.html
The Defense's Case?
Lockerbie: The Syrian Connection
by Ian Ferguson
http://www.meib.org/articles/0012_me1.htm
Mossad and Lockerbie
http://www.gordonthomas.ie/Articles/lockerbie.htm