Doubts on evidence linking Lockerbie bomb to Malta

Jesmond Micallef

Jan 6th 2010, 21:11

I remember reading in a leading UK newspaper magazine article about 2 people who where living in Sweden, at that time, telling the story about a drug related DEA undercover operation in Syria. If I remember correctly, these DEA agents bought some powder drugs from a valley in Syria famous for drug bussines. I cannot remember exactly how, but this powered drug was to be doped in order to identify it as it progresses from its port of entry in the USA. The article mentioned a name given to this type of operation, used in order to trace the path drugs take once they progress from the USA port of entry.

I just wonder if this has to do with this complicated international case.

Gerry Cowie

Jan 6th 2010, 18:48

The BBC and many others are way behind in this matter!
Private Eye Magazine has been on about it for years due to all the strange circumstances involved, such as fingers being cut off corpses for "identification" purposes and all the cover-ups going on between the USA and the UK due to political sensitivities. The truth would, it seems, cause too much damage!

Ron Saliba

Jan 6th 2010, 17:05

@Austen Lennon

Please read carefully before commenting.

Paul Smith

Jan 6th 2010, 15:08

I never doubted that Malta had anything to do with Lockerbie. It was a classic CIA, MI6 frame up.
The secret energy discussions that went on in Washington 100% discussed plans to obtain both Iraqi and Libyan oil and Gas as the west's energy resources declined.

I look forward to 10.30pm tonight to see J. Paxman (newsnight) ripe the case apart, and hopefully entice many new tourists to come and see Malta for what it really is, a diamond in the Med.

Raymond Sammut

Jan 6th 2010, 15:01

@ Austen Lennon -- "The man who did the tests has proved that a bomb explodes the same way everytime it is set off."

Not so, Mr Lennon. Please read carefully. In each of the 20 tests, the printed circuit board disintegrated. The test was not on how a bomb explodes. The test was on whether a "fragment" of the printed circuit board could survive the explosion. The only question that Mr Wyatt raises is whether 20 tests are enough to convince us within an accepted statistical level of confidence. How many tests do you need before you are convinced? 200 tests? 2,000 tests? 20,000 tests?

The court in Holland in 2001 was satisfied with just one "fragment" allegedly produced from one explosion. Mr Wyatt conducted 20 tests, and none of them produced a single fragment. If you are not satisfied with 20 explosions Mr Lennon, then why the court in Holland was satisfied with just one explosion?

A. E. Abela

Jan 6th 2010, 13:51

In order to attack Iraq the USA claimed that Saddam H. had weapons of mass destruction and that he sponsored Bin Laden to blow the WTC. I think today we all know that WMD haven't been found in Iraq and no such link between Saddam H. and Bin Laden has been proved to date. When it comes to the Lockerbie bombing, in the light of the above circumstances, I think that there is a credibility issue surrounding the conclusions reached implicating Malta.

Austen Lennon

Jan 6th 2010, 13:40

It's a miracle! The man who did the tests has proved that a bomb explodes the same way everytime it is set off. Now the world can rest easy as we have changed the way that physics works. Stop clutching at straws. This stupid BBC program proves nothing. You can set off a bomb 20,000 times and it will explode differently everytime and as for the witness who had the courage to stand up in court and give evidence and who risked his life in doing so; he should be praised not demonised..

Raymond Sammut

Jan 6th 2010, 13:10

The BBC report highlights the following allegations:

>The fragment was part of a trigger circuit board.

>The fragment was found in the field three weeks after the plane was brought down.

>The fragment was embedded in a charred piece of clothing.

>The clothing was marked with a label saying it was made in Malta.

>The clothing had been sold at a shop in Malta before the explosion.

>The shopkeeper identified Mr Megrahi after seeing his picture in a magazine years after the explosion.

Only the gullible would believe any of these allegations, let alone the entire chain which is necessary for any of them to be true. The fact that these allegations held ground at the court hearing in Holland in 2001 only shows what "intelligence" agents acting with impunity can achieve.

They had no lever to go by. At the same time, affected government officials could not face relatives without some sort of an answer. A man has been deprived of his freedom, and the relatives still have no answers. Malta's name continued to be blemished, while loads of money kept changing hands. A total debacle. The stuff of movie fiction.

Anthony Farrugia

Jan 6th 2010, 12:33

The Gauci brothers got 2 million and 1 million US dollars from FBI / CIA for testifying at the Hague trial and hot footed to Australia to enjoy their gains! How reliable was their evidence knowing that they would be rewarded for fingering Megrahi ! This is no conspiracy theory but hard cash talking.

lgalea

Jan 6th 2010, 12:04

Paul Carlton
He should not only pay his cheque back but should be prosecuted for dragging our country's name into the mud.

I have always had no doubt whatsoever that the piece of cloth and the part of a timer which allegedly was found among the wreckage would never have survived in the explosion considering it was so near or perhaps even touching the explosive where temperatures reach thousands of degrees which would have burned them to a cinder or evaporated them apart from the blast itself.

Have a look at the following sites.
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2009/09/angiolini-backs-away-from-semtex.html
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2009/09/crown-challenged-to-prove-semtex-link.html
http://www.firmmagazine.com/news/1718/Exclusive:_Crown_challenged_to_prove_semtex_link_to_Pan_Am103_.html
http://www.firmmagazine.com/news/1722/Angiolini_backs_away_from_semtex_challenge_.html
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/8920

For interesting cover-ups and deceptions have a look at
http://www.spiderednews.com/CoverupsandDeceptions.htm

and on the WTC
http://www.net4truthusa.com/wtcdemolition.htm

Tony Gatt

Jan 6th 2010, 11:51

Even some of the victims' relatives in the U.K. cast doubt on Megrahi's guilt. Only the Americans have total belief in the 'evidence'.
Strange that the Americans had to reward the shopkeeper with a reported two million dollars to help him finger Megrahi!

Andrew McPherson

Jan 6th 2010, 09:36

I have always said that I doubt the involvement of Libya in the Lockerbie bombing. The most likely culprit is Iranian retaliation against the shooting down of their passenger airliner.
Even before any investigations were carried out, the U.S. were blaming Libya.
The chances of the Maltese shopowner being able to positively identifying one person, who he saw for a few minutes, months before are highly unlikely.
The clothes that were supposedly wrapped around the bomb could have been purchased by someone else, from somewhere else, possibly not even from Malta.
The chances of setting a bomb to explode when it did are highly unlikely if it was sent through from Malta. Who knows if the suitcase would be transferred to that flight or even left for days in Germany? Ask passengers how often their bags go astray!!!
The baggage store in Heathrow was broken into the day before the flighjt passed through so it is quite possible that the suitcase containing the bomb was placed in the store to be put on the plane.
A new, and more detailed investigation, is needed into these seemingly unassociated details which appear to have been ignored.

Paul Carlton

Jan 6th 2010, 09:03

Will the main Maltese 'witness' have to pay his million pund 'cheque' back?