“With respect to UTA 772, the U.S. Government concluded that the method of operation employed in the downing of that aircraft in September 1989 was similar in virtually all important respects to that used to destroy Pan Am 103 in December 1988, including the responsibility of the Libyan Government for the planning of the bombing, the assembly of the explosive device, and the carrying out of the operation. Specifically, Libya used intelligence agents with airline and explosives experience to plan, coordinate, and execute the planting of a “boobytrapped” suitcase aboard a commercial airliner with the use of a sophisticated timer device, in order to exact vengeance on a Western state; and, after the fact, the careers of those intelligence agents, who successfully carried out their mission,progressed.”
ROBERT L. PUGH v. THE SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA
“Last June, L’Express, a French weekly, reported that investigators had concluded that both the Pan Am and U.T.A. bombings were planned at a meeting in Tripoli in September 1988 attended by Mr. Senoussi and Mr. Koussa.”
New York Times (October 31 1991)
“Raufer established three new facts, all of them pointing — for the first time — to Libya as the culprit of both Pan Am 103 and UTA 772. These facts are false.”
French Intelligence (DST) — Note to the President of France Francois Mitterrand
“It is striking to note the similarity of the ‘scientific’ evidence discovered by the FBI’s Tom Thurman in both the Lockerbie and UTA cases. Of the tens of thousands of pieces of debris collected at each disaster site, one lone piece of printed circuit was found and, miracle of miracles, in each case the fragment bore markings that allowed for positive identification: MEBO in the Lockerbie case and TY in the case of UTA Flight 772. Despite the common findings of the DCPJ, the DST and the Prefecture of Police crime laboratory, Judge Bruguière chose to believe Thurman, the expert in fabricating evidence.”
Pierre Péan — African Manipulations
Rescuers stand near the wreckage of the French UTA DC-10 flight 772 in the Tenere desert, on September 22, 1989
September 19 2020 — It has been called the greatest murder investigation in French history. When a suitcase bomb destroyed French Airlines UTA Flight 772, killing all 170 passengers and crew on board, it triggered a decade long search for accountability. At the conclusion of the investigation, the French investigative magistrate judge — Jean Louis Bruguiere — determined that the Libyan State was directly responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772. Case closed?
Not everyone is convinced. Pierre Péan, one of the greatest French investigative journalists, came to the conclusion that Thomas Thurman — a Federal Bureau of Investigation explosives expert — fabricated false evidence against Libya in the investigations of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 . Péan is certainly not alone to suspect foul play. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
