Category Archives: Lockerbie

On This Day — Lockerbie & PT/35(b) : “A RIDDLE, WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY, INSIDE AN ENIGMA.” (May 12 1989)

“PT/35(b) was extremely, extremely dodgy. It was very, very suspicious. The way it suddenly appeared, embedded in a shirt collar, with the information on the page overwritten and changed, all police procedures were thrown out of the window.” Rev. John … Continue reading

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Lockerbie Case Review — Key Witness Tony Gauci Was Unreliable

“I personally hope that Tony [Gauci] is in a better place and that he is now at peace because he must have led a tortured life knowing that he had jailed an innocent man for money.” George Thomson — Lockerbie … Continue reading

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Ten Years Ago — Dr David Fieldhouse and Lockerbie

“The presence of the team on Flight 103 is a clue that should not be ignored. It’s like the loose thread of a sweater. Pull on it, and the whole thing may unravel. The Mossad knew about it and didn’t … Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY — First 1000 Posts

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.” Bertrand Russell Time really flies when you’re having fun! On May 3 2018, Gerard Sinclair announced that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) will … Continue reading

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Lockerbie — Megrahi Conviction to be Reviewed by the SCCRC

“The (SCCRC) commission has decided that it is in the interests of justice to accept the current application for a full review of his conviction.” SCCRC chief executive Gerard Sinclair — May 3 2018 “I regard the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi … Continue reading

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One Year Ago — Lockerbie : An open letter from Dr Jim Swire

“The Lockerbie trial is the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for 100 years. Every lawyer who has read the judgment says ‘this is nonsense’. It is nonsense.” Robert Black QC FRSE –Professor Emeritus of Scots Law in the … Continue reading

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One Year Ago — Lockerbie & Pan Am 103 : The Truth at Last?

“After writing about the “ravers” who regularly turn up at lectures to claim that President Bush/the CIA/the Pentagon/Mossad etc perpetrated the crimes against humanity of 11 September, I received a letter this week from Marion Irvine, who feared that members … Continue reading

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One Year Ago — The Washington Post rewrites History

“President Ronald Reagan didn’t seek congressional approval when he bombed Libya in retaliation for a bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.” Amber Phillips — Washington Post (April 7 2017) “The result is post-truth discourse. In our new … Continue reading

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On This Day — Swissair Flight 330 (February 21 1970)

“330 is going down. Goodbye everybody.” Co-pilot Armand Etienne — February 21 1970 1:34 “Bern threw a ‘cloak of silence’ over the case.” Swiss Investigator Robert Akeret “The secret deal was ‘immoral’ and in breach of legal principles, but it … Continue reading

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On This Day — The Lockerbie Trial Verdict [January 31 2001]

“The 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 … Continue reading

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