In the 21st of December 1988 a town in the South of Scotland called Lockerbie had a plane crash that caused a total of 270 fatalities. Several years later the bomber was released and was sentenced to jail. Last year however, Kenny McKaskil released him back to compassionate grounds (Libya) due to him having cancer. He's still living to this day though. It was a controversial decision and even found controversy around the world. But what do you think? Should he have stayed in jail or was it a wrong decision and should have stayed in Jail?
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Should the Lockerbie Bomber have been released?
- Thread starter MrMetroid
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, were both cahrged with the bombing over Lockerbie. In both trials, evidence from the prosecution was exactly the same for both men. Megrahi was convicted and Fhimah was aquited. How can that be?
On board the flight were 10 key agents of the CIA all who have been Identified by their remains along with a suitcase containing a large quantity of heroin and another containing thousands of $.
But what makes it even worse is that evidence suggests this was not the work of Libyan intelligence, as the official story maintains, but of US agent in Iran, Abu Nidal, once renowned as the worldâs most wanted terrorist leader and second only to Osama Bin Laden as the CIAâs number one foreign agent.
Further evidence suggesting the CIA was involved is that high-ranking American diplomats (another term for CIA agents) are now known to have been pulled from Pan-Am Flight 103 minutes before it took off.
Their places were taken by a group of American students, all of whom perished in the bombing.
According to a former Scottish police chief who worked on the case, the CIA also planted false evidence among the wreckage in a successful attempt to incriminate Libya.
The Libyan government, of course, and in particular Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, took the rap for the atrocity, despite the abject lack of smoking-gun evidence and the latterâs consistent denial that he was in any way involved.
Megrahi was due to appeal his sentence and his Lawyers claimed to have evidence that led to a CIA cover up on behalf of Iran dating back to the CIA Iran/Contra deal.
Yes, he sould have been released.... He should never have been convicted.
On board the flight were 10 key agents of the CIA all who have been Identified by their remains along with a suitcase containing a large quantity of heroin and another containing thousands of $.
But what makes it even worse is that evidence suggests this was not the work of Libyan intelligence, as the official story maintains, but of US agent in Iran, Abu Nidal, once renowned as the worldâs most wanted terrorist leader and second only to Osama Bin Laden as the CIAâs number one foreign agent.
Further evidence suggesting the CIA was involved is that high-ranking American diplomats (another term for CIA agents) are now known to have been pulled from Pan-Am Flight 103 minutes before it took off.
Their places were taken by a group of American students, all of whom perished in the bombing.
According to a former Scottish police chief who worked on the case, the CIA also planted false evidence among the wreckage in a successful attempt to incriminate Libya.
The Libyan government, of course, and in particular Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, took the rap for the atrocity, despite the abject lack of smoking-gun evidence and the latterâs consistent denial that he was in any way involved.
Megrahi was due to appeal his sentence and his Lawyers claimed to have evidence that led to a CIA cover up on behalf of Iran dating back to the CIA Iran/Contra deal.
Yes, he sould have been released.... He should never have been convicted.
freezy said:
The C.I.A. drug trade through the Syria and Iran was going pretty sweet for Syrian C.I.A. contractor Monzer al-Kassar.
He gives the suitcase, C.I.A. agents clear the suitcase through to New York. When the suitcase of drugs was switched for a bomb in Dec 21, 1988, it was cleared as usual. Central Intelligence Agent Charles McKee was aboard, as were 9 other agents, all killed. At the crash scene, CIA agents posing as Pan Am employees walked away with a suitcase.
First, the press had word of a Syrian or Palestinian suspect, but when wind of the C.I.A. involvement began to surface, the C.I.A. needed a scapegoat. The socialist isolationist country is always the best bet, because they are enemies of the U.S. by their mere existence, so bombing and/or sanctions always needs a good excuse. C.I.A. killed two birds with one stone, and pinned the Flight 103 bomb on Libya.
Can you say 'political deal' boys and girls..... there, I knew you could.
