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South Africa blamed for Lockerbie

Danny | 16.12.2007 11:40 | Terror War

A new petition urges the goivernment to support a full UN investigation into the Lockerbie bombing, on the grounds a UN Commissioner for Nambia was on-board.

The theory apartheid South Africa blew up PanAm flight 103 is rarely discussed, with the mainstream media concentrating on which arab nation to blame. The great significance of this petition isn't the number of signatories, rather it is who those signatories are. Dr Jim Swire lost his daughter in the explosion, and has campaigned tirelessly for justice. Professor Robert Black is the Scottish legal academic who is known as 'the architect of the Lockerbie trial' - a trial he know derides. Ian McKie is a former police inspector whose daughter Shirlie was stitched up by the Scottish Criminal Records Office with false fingerprint evidence. Patrick Haseldine is a British diplomat sacked for criticising the Thatcher goverment complicity in Apartheid terrorist attacks.

Petition Text:

Dr Hans Koechler, UN observer at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, has described Mr al-Megrahi's conviction as a "spectacular miscarriage of justice". If, as now seems inevitable, the Libyan's conviction is overturned on appeal, Libya will be exonerated and a new investigation is going to be required. Apartheid South Africa is the prime alternative suspect for the Lockerbie bombing - see Wikipedia article "South Africa luggage swap theory". We understand that, when Libya takes its seat at the UN Security Council in January 2008, there will be calls for an immediate United Nations Inquiry into the death of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The other 14 UNSC members - including Britain - should support such an Inquiry and nominate Dr Koechler to conduct it.


Petition -
 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNInquiry/

Mathaba Article on the petition
 http://mathaba.net/news/?x=574616

Professor Blacks Lockerbie Blog -
 http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/

Patrick Haseldine
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Haseldine

Danny

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Another possibility

16.12.2007 14:54

Have you considered the possibility of Israeli involvement?

zionism - irrelevant within a generation


Cover up continues...Megrahi languishes

18.12.2007 10:18

The Crown Office is refusing to pass a document to Megrahis defence team that could clear him because it comes from a foriegn country. Professor Black understatedly called this 'fishy'.
 http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1911239.0.Crown_refuses_to_reveal_secret_Lockerbie_paper.php

Paddy Hill, of the Birmingham Six, visited Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi recently. He says Megrahi fears being freed and then extradited to the US. Hill said "I think Megrahi was convinced at his original trial that the truth would out. Now he seems pretty disillusioned with the system. He doesn't come across as particularly bitter or angry but he is convinced American hands are all over his case and that worries him a lot. He is pretty lonely. He was over the moon to get a visit from us. His English is pretty good but it is still hard for him to communicate with the other men in there because the language and the culture are a barrier. It is all slang in prison, it is street talk and it's hard to understand. The food, the weather, everything is different in Scotland for him. It is like being locked up on Mars. But he has had no problems with prisoners. They are pretty good to him because they realise there is a lot wrong with his case."
 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2007/12/17/lockerbie-bomber-scots-jail-like-being-on-mars-86908-20258304/

Danny


Salmond says Megrahi will walk

20.12.2007 13:22

I realise this seems to interest me more than most people, but Alex Salmond has just said Megrahi will be transferred to Libya under a deal stuck between Gadaffi and Blair.
This will effectively free the innocent man without embarrassing the Scottish judiciary. Salmond claims to be unhappy about this. I am unhappy about this. Apart from poor Megrahi, there are thousands of innocents imprisoned on Scotland on faked evidence and to circumvent a proper investigation into this kangeroo trial is to ignore that.


Libya deal on eve of Lockerbie anniversary
 http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Libya-deal-on-eve-of.3607023.jp

Danny


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