Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: BBC2 Conspiracy Files - Lockerbie
Sun31Aug - BBC2 - Conspiracy Files - Lockerbie
The Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie - In December 1988, Britain's worst terrorist attack left 270 people dead. Then the BBC decided to employ a Neocon fascist sympathiser and smearer of independent filmmaker hero Dylan Avery to make a programme on it.
The Conspiracy Files follows Guy Smith's trail of evidence from the Middle East, through Europe and on to North America, investigating the tangled web of claims and counter-claims surrounding the Lockerbie bombing.
The prosecution case was that al-Megrahi took the bomb, wrapped in clothes bought from a shop in Malta, to the island's Luqa airport, where it was checked in and then transferred onto Pan Am flight 103.
A key witness against al-Megrahi was the Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gauci, who owned Mary's House, where the police say the garments were bought.
He identified al-Megrahi as having been in his shop some weeks before the bombing.
The Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie reports that some of his evidence contradicted itself and that Mr Gauci had seen al-Megrahi's photograph in a magazine under a headline "Who planted the bomb?" a few days before he picked him out at an identity parade.
The SCCRC discovered this was the case, and this is one of the grounds on which they recommended that the case should be looked at again.
The BBC programme has discovered that the Scottish police knew Mr Gauci had looked at al-Megrahi's photograph just days before the line-up.
But contrary to police rules of disclosure, designed to ensure a fair trial, this crucial information was not passed on to the defence.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:
Is they gonna try to pin it on the Libyans again?
Is Guy Smith going to try to claw back his credibility... or sell his ass again?
The CIA 'investigated' this bombing, not the British authorities. They appeared on the scene rather too quickly, as if they knew it was going to happen.
The Guy 'everythng he touches turns to brown' Smith production is available to view here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dc21f/
The sort of programme the BBC used to do well.
What were the conclusions? I feel disinclined to watch Guy Smith's twisted bs.
On 12th May 1995, the day after the Channel 4 broadcast, The Guardian published a letter from Francovich headed "The Lockerbie smears":[2]
"The attacks by the UK and US authorities on my film The Maltese Double Cross (UK and US scorn Lockerbie film, May 11) are exactly what we predicted would happen. The aim is to smear people in the film in order to divert attention from the mass of evidence that supports our claims.
"The film shows how Lockerbie was masterminded by Iran and Syria, not Libya, and that the bomb got on the plane through a botched US intelligence operation based on Middle East drugs and hostages. Elements within western intelligence knew what was happening but failed to act. The authorities can never admit this, as to do so would make Watergate look like a vicar's tea party.
"The smears referred to have been circulating for years and have been used to attack anyone who has suggested that US government agencies have dirty hands in the affair. The latest round of attacks was begun in a letter to Tam Dalyell MP by a Todd Leventhal, of the US Information Agency, who has the Orwellian title 'Program Officer for Countering Disinformation and Misinformation'. It is disturbing that the supposedly independent Scottish Crown Office should choose to repeat Leventhal's allegations without question.
"The full Crown Office statement states that the Lord Advocate deprecates all attempts to give a version of the Lockerbie story while criminal proceedings are pending. It goes on: 'The proper place for such issues to be explored is in a criminal court.'
"This argument was substantially undermined on November 15, 1991, only a day after the indictments were issued against the two Libyan accused. On that day the US State Department issued 'fact sheets' which detailed the evidence against the two accused. The information they contained has been repeated in numerous media reports and at least two books published in the UK since that time. One of the media reports was an item about how the Scottish and US authorities 'solved' the Lockerbie case, contained in a BBC 'How Do They Do That?' programme broadcast on February 15, 1994. It featured the former Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway, John Boyd. So far as we are aware, neither the Crown Office nor the Lord Advocate ever issued similarly critical statements against the BBC, John Boyd, or any of the other broadcasters, newspapers or book publishers which have raked over the evidence.
"The British and US authorities insist that the Lockerbie case is still open. Yet during the months my team has been investigating the subject, not one approach has been made by these authorities to see any of the new evidence we have gathered. Is it any wonder that the Libyans are reluctant to stand trial in Scotland or the US?"
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:37 am Post subject:
fawning Galloway keeps making what appear to be masonic signs with his hands, especially towards the end!
"All the evidence was nearly lost at the bottom of the sea?" Utter rubbish. The plane may even have floated for a while, would almost certainly have been recovered.
Ah, Feuding Palestinians. "The Appeal Court is ABOVE politics." No evidence that the CIA appeared on the ground, US consular officials not CIA there within an hour and a half. Confirmed it was a terrorist attack 24 hours after the crash. Really!
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: Shyster Miliband blocks release of key Lockerbie files
Miliband blocks release of key Lockerbie files
* Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent
* The Guardian,
* Thursday February 21 2008
The foreign secretary has been accused of interfering in the appeal of the man jailed for the Lockerbie bombing, after he refused to release secret papers which could clear the Libyan. David Miliband has signed a public interest immunity certificate to prevent disclosure, despite a ruling from Scotland's miscarriages of justice commission that the documents suggest Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi has been wrongly convicted.
In 1996, secret papers from an unnamed foreign government were given to Scottish police investigating the bombing, which killed 270 passengers, crew and townspeople in Lockerbie in December 1988, but were never disclosed to the Libyan's defence lawyers.
Last year, the Scottish criminal cases review commission returned Megrahi's case to the appeal court after ruling that there were serious weaknesses in his conviction - its concerns strengthened by the contents of the classified documents.
At a hearing in Edinburgh yesterday, Megrahi's lawyers claimed that Scotland's chief prosecutor, the lord advocate Elish Angiolini QC, had indicated she wanted to release the documents but was unable to because of objections raised by the foreign secretary's lawyer, the advocate general, Neil Davidson QC.
Maggie Scott QC, for Megrahi, said the secrecy order raised constitutional issues since it threatened the independence of the Scottish prosecution system.
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