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<A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:488947">Lockerbie Breakthrough</A>
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Subject: Lockerbie Breakthrough
From: David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999 11:43 AM
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Libya Agrees to Terms, Lockerbie Bombing Trial to Proceed
"Saudi Arabian diplomats told U.N. officials Friday in New York that
Libya--under U.N. sanctions for refusing to extradite the suspects in
the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner--has agreed to bring Abdel Basset
Ali al-Magrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhima to the Netherlands, where a
Scottish panel of judges will sit in a special court."
At least that's how the story should have begun, and it should have
appeared in the American press on the next day, Saturday, February 13.
I went back today and looked in both The Washington Post and The
Washington Times and found no mention of this momentous breakthrough,
however. Instead, what we got in today's Washington Times on page A17
was a spin article headlined "Libya seen as double winner in trial of
Lockerbie suspects."
The reason for the initial suppression and then the spin, if one reads
the article carefully, is that the prosecutors have no case against the
two Libyan "suspects."
The spin article begins like this:
LONDON--Pressured to send two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am
jetliner to face trial before Scottish judges, Libyan leader Moammar
Gadhafi may be heading for a double victory: an end to U.N. sanctions
and an acquittal of the suspects.
Legal experts beleive it will be tough to prove that the men--purported
intelligence agents who worked for Libyan Arab Airlines in
Malta--actually built and planted the radio bomb taht blew up Flight 103
over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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A key state witness is a Libyan defector, who worked at the Libyan
airlines office in Malta. U.S. investigators have said that Abdul Mejid
Jiaaka, who fled to the United States in 1991, brought documents proving
Libyan involvement in the disaster.
Mr. Jiaaka, though, is not expected to testify that he saw suspects
actually making or packing the bomb.
[Robert] Black [professor of Scottish law] said defense lawyers will
almost certainly challenge Mr. Jiaaka's credibility because of his
defection to the United States. His testimony also would need
independent corroboration under Scottish criminal law. (end excerpt)
Oh drat! I guess that's why they wanted to bring them over here and
administer the kind of justice Timothy McVeigh and James Earl Ray got,
or Richard Jewell would have received if they could have stuck him with
a government lawyer. So what happened to that rock-solid physical
evidence they said they had on the Libyans?
If you want to know why they are practically hiding the news of this
big new development from us just go to
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5260/. The Libyans are innocent,
and we have known it all along.
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DC Dave news:alt.thebird
column & poetry:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2932/index.html
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