Tag Archives: Lockerbie

Lockerbie — Trial Start Delayed by COVID-19

“We are in discussion with the court about when we might have a hearing, and we anticipate that things will be clearer in May [2020] on the basis that lockdown provisions in Scotland will continue for at least the next … Continue reading

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Lockerbie — Diabolical Endgame — Part II : Chronicle of an Injustice Foretold

“The Devil’s cleverest wile is to make men believe that he does not exist.” Charles Baudelaire — “Le Joueur Généreux” (Le Figaro –1864) March 25 2020 — When it comes to the Lockerbie Affair, nothing is ever what it seems. … Continue reading

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Lockerbie — SCCRC Refers Case Back to Court

“Thus, I do not see what use there is in those mills of the gods said to grind so late as to render punishment hard to be recognized, and to make wickedness fearless.” Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea — On … Continue reading

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TOP INTEL TODAY 2019 STORIES — #1  : Lockerbie — Dr Jim Swire : “Let this be the year when the Scottish criminal justice system gives clarity on Lockerbie.” [UPDATE : SCCRC Decision to be Announced March 11 2020]

“More than 31 years after the atrocity the Government’s documents relating to it are still being sequestered in a special category of security in the National Archives where they are not accessible to requests under FOI [Freedom Of Information] nor … Continue reading

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Flashback — Intel Today : “Lockerbie Witnesses Were Paid”

‘”I can assure you that no witnesses were ever offered any money by anyone–including the CIA. This issue came up at trial and I spoke with the defense lawyers about it in Edinburgh in 1999 — before trial. No one … Continue reading

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On This Day — The Lockerbie Trial Verdict (January 31 2001) [2020]

“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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Three Years Ago — Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Takes Many Secrets to His Grave (January 8 2017)

“With what is happening in the U.S. and the possible instability that is going to come in U.S. policy you needed a voice of reason and pragmatism that had some heft to it. He was that voice. Losing that voice … Continue reading

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TOP INTEL TODAY 2019 STORIES — #1 : Lockerbie — Dr Jim Swire : “Let this be the year when the Scottish criminal justice system gives clarity on Lockerbie.”

“More than 31 years after the atrocity the Government’s documents relating to it are still being sequestered in a special category of security in the National Archives where they are not accessible to requests under FOI [Freedom Of Information] nor … Continue reading

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On This Day — Pan Am 103 Debris Show Evidence of Plastic Explosive (December 28 1988) [2019]

“I need not go into the rest of the story and the explosion, except to say that some of us believe that, within hours, the Americans had guessed, at a very high level, what had gone wrong. It is a … Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY — Top 10 Stories of 2019

“The truth is replaced by silence, and silence is a lie. But the Russian people have a beautiful proverb: ‘A lie is like a bow. You hide the ends in water but the middle protrudes. You hide the middle, and … Continue reading

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