“I was taken out, blindfolded again, put into the boot of a car, then another car, and when they took the blindfold off I was with a Syrian intelligence operative, who drove me to the Syrian intelligence headquarters.”
Terry Waite
“A lot of people thought it (Lockerbie – Pan Am 103) was the Syrians. The Syrians took a bum rap on this.”
President Bush (November 14 1991)
James Baker: “What are you doing about the … group?”
Farouk al-Sharaa: “What are you talking about?
Baker: “Jibril. We know they are responsible for Lockerbie. What are you doing about them?”
al-Sharaa: “How do you know that?”
Baker: “We have the evidence. And the evidence is irrefutable.”
Secretary of State James Baker meeting with Syrian Foreign Intelligence Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. (Mid 1989)
“A deal between the US and Iran that involved the issue of Pan Am 103 is not an unreasonable hypothesis, given previous US behaviour and British and French ‘deals’ with Iran for the release of hostages.”
Dr Davina Miller — “Who Knows About This? Western Policy Towards Iran: The Lockerbie Case”
On November 18 1991, Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland were released by the Islamic Jihad organization. The timing of their release was very suspicious and many experts have argued that this was part of a deal with Iran to switch the blame for the Lockerbie bombing from Iranian surrogates to Libya. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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