Lockerbie 'bomber' to be transferred to Libya?

Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

seems like more info is appearing in the Scottish mainstream press every day:

Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/di ... 67.0.0.php

Recently discovered papers show Scottish police officers investigating
the 1988 bombing were aware the US intelligence service had discussed
financial terms and witness protection schemes with Tony Gauci and his
brother, Paul.

They documented the talks and it would have been standard practice for
such information to have been relayed to the prosecution team before the
trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan serving 27 years
for the bombing.

However, his defence team was never told of the CIA offer,
in what critics say is another example of non-disclosure that undermines
the credibility of Mr Gauci and, in turn, the Crown's case against
Megrahi.
 
Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

seems like more info is appearing in the Scottish mainstream press every day:

Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/di ... 67.0.0.php

Recently discovered papers show Scottish police officers investigating
the 1988 bombing were aware the US intelligence service had discussed
financial terms and witness protection schemes with Tony Gauci and his
brother, Paul.

They documented the talks and it would have been standard practice for
such information to have been relayed to the prosecution team before the
trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan serving 27 years
for the bombing.

However, his defence team was never told of the CIA offer,
in what critics say is another example of non-disclosure that undermines
the credibility of Mr Gauci and, in turn, the Crown's case against
Megrahi.
 
Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

seems like more info is appearing in the Scottish mainstream press every day:

Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/di ... 67.0.0.php

Recently discovered papers show Scottish police officers investigating
the 1988 bombing were aware the US intelligence service had discussed
financial terms and witness protection schemes with Tony Gauci and his
brother, Paul.

They documented the talks and it would have been standard practice for
such information to have been relayed to the prosecution team before the
trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan serving 27 years
for the bombing.

However, his defence team was never told of the CIA offer,
in what critics say is another example of non-disclosure that undermines
the credibility of Mr Gauci and, in turn, the Crown's case against
Megrahi.
 
Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

seems like more info is appearing in the Scottish mainstream press every day:

Revealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/di ... 67.0.0.php

Recently discovered papers show Scottish police officers investigating
the 1988 bombing were aware the US intelligence service had discussed
financial terms and witness protection schemes with Tony Gauci and his
brother, Paul.

They documented the talks and it would have been standard practice for
such information to have been relayed to the prosecution team before the
trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan serving 27 years
for the bombing.

However, his defence team was never told of the CIA offer,
in what critics say is another example of non-disclosure that undermines
the credibility of Mr Gauci and, in turn, the Crown's case against
Megrahi.
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
Robert Fisk in the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3055834.ece

"We have felt since the first days in December 1988," she writes, "that
something was being hidden from us ... the discrediting of the Helsinki
(US embassy) warning, the presence of the CIA on Scottish soil before
the work of identifying bodies was properly undertaken, the Teflon
behaviour of ministers and government all contributed to a deep feeling
of unease.

"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American
Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our
government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out.
In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario - that lives were
sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 - takes
on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the
last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."

Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine
refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot
down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and
before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The USS Vincennes - nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American
vessels - blasted its missiles at the Airbus on the assumption that it
was a diving Iranian air force jet. It wasn't - and the Airbus was
climbing - but Reagan, after a few cursory apologies, blamed Iran for
the slaughter, because it had refused to accept a UN ceasefire in the
war with Iraq in which we were backing our old friend Saddam Hussein
(yes, the same!).
Click to expand...
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
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Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
Click to expand...

Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
Click to expand...

Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
Click to expand...

Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
Click to expand...

Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
update

From the Herald

However, the news last month that Libya had ratified a £450m exploration contract with BP following last year's talks with Tony Blair has reignited suspicions.

Libyan negotiators claimed that ratification of BP's deal had been left hanging for months because they were angered that Mr Blair had left open the possibility of excluding Megrahi from a deal to repatriate Libyan prisoners held in British jails.

BP has denied there were political reasons for the ratification of the deal being delayed.
Click to expand...

Begs the use of a Scottish double positive: "Aye, right!"
 
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