“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
(July 18, 1918 – Dec. 5, 2013)

December 5 2023 — On August 5 1962, Mandela was posing as a chauffeur when his car was stopped at a roadblock by the police in the eastern city of Durban. Three decades later, on February 11 1990 Mandela walked out of prison and embarked on a decade of historic endeavor. Mandela spent almost 30 years in jail just for being a decent man. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Just to refresh your memory… Donald Rickard — ex-CIA agent and diplomat — claimed that the 1962 arrest of Nelson Mandela was made possible by a tip-off from the US Central Intelligence Agency.

President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, Mandela was nevertheless kept on the US terror watch list until 2008.

In a famous speech (Cape Town, June 13 1999), Mandela stated:

“There must be a kernel of morality also to international behaviour. Of course, nations must place their own interests high on the list of considerations informing their international relations. But the amorality which decrees that might is right can not be the basis on which the world conducts itself in the next century.

It was pure expediency to call on democratic South Africa to turn its back on Libya and Qaddafi, who had assisted us in obtaining democracy at a time when those who now made that call were the friends of the enemies of democracy in South Africa.”

How Western Media re-write History

In March 2022, Bill Browder posted the following tweet supporting a piece published by the Sunday Times:

Obviously, Browder has a very poor grasp on History. The West was never on the side of Mandela during the apartheid. The US and and the UK regarded Mandela as a terrorist.

And yet, such nonsense gets thousands of likes on Twitter? Surely, Mandela must be rolling over in his grave?!?

Lockerbie — Three Decades of Lies: J’Accuse…!

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Lockerbie — Three Decades of Lies: J’Accuse…!

Mandela & Lockerbie

At a Downing Street meeting in April 2001, Mandela told Tony Blair it was “wrong to hold Libya legally responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.” Mandela surely understood the difference between personal responsibility and state responsibility.

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So I always doubted very much that he would have made such a statement if he had really believed that Megrahi (and Libya) was actually responsible for the Lockerbie tragedy. Do you seriously think Mandela would have visited Megrahi in prison if he had believed that Megrahi was a terrorist?

Mandela was absolutely right to question the testimony of the ‘super star CIA witness’ Majid Giaka.

According to Giaka, Megrahi arrived in Malta with the infamous brown Samsonite suitcase (allegedly containing a bomb) on December 20 1988.

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Actually,  Giaka never reported this event to his CIA’s handler because he never witnessed it. At the time of Megrahi’s arrival at Luqa airport, Giaka was in a CIA safe house meeting his handlers.

The CIA knew that Giaka could not have witnessed the arrival of Megrahi in the afternoon but, of course, they never told the FBI. Surprisingly, the Bureau never asked. Why not?

Question — If it is ever proven — as I am absolutely convinced — that the CIA planted PT/35(b) at Lockerbie to incriminate Libya, do you think for a moment that the US Government will accept full responsibility for the acts and omissions of its officials, and agencies (CIA and FBI)?

REFERENCES

Nelson Mandela: CIA tip-off led to 1962 Durban arrest — BBC News

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10 Years Ago — Remembering Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918 – Dec. 5, 2013) [Mandela and Lockerbie]

“The [Lockerbie] case was largely based on this inside guy [Libyan defector Abdul Majid Giaka]. It wasn’t until the trial that I learned this guy was a nut-job and that the CIA had absolutely no confidence in him and that they knew he was a liar. The CIA and the FBI kept the State Department in the dark. It worked for them for us to be fully committed to the theory that Libya was responsible.”

Michael Scharf —  Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law