>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: Libya: US witness evidence "torn to pieces" > (Lockerbie US plane crash) >The New York Times & The Guardian > Sydney Morning Herald 28 Sept 2000 > >Lawyers tear Spy's Evidence To Pieces > Lockerbie Trial > >Camp Zeist, Netherlands: The evidence of the most important witness >in the Lockerbie trial has been systematically torn to pieces by >defence lawyers. > >Two of them spent Wednesday battering every important point made on >Tuesday by Mr. Abdul Majid Giaka, a Libyan double agent who has been >in the United States witness protection program for 10 years. > >Mr. Giaka's tentative performance, coupled with his failure on >Tuesday to link the two defendants firmly to the bomb, seemed to >undermine his usefulness to the prosecution and its efforts to prove >that the two Libyans, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa >Fhimah, blew up Pan Am 103 in 1988, killing 270 people. > >The defence lawyers called Mr. Giaka a liar at least 30 times, and >only once did a prosecutor rise to object. >One defence lawyer, Mr. Richard Keen, sought to portray Mr. Giaka as >little more than a mechanic who had over-played his position within >the Libyan intelligence organisation and had lied about his contacts. > >To question after question, Mr. Giaka flailed for a response. He was >reduced to answering: "I do not remember", "I am not lying", "These >things were many years ago", I did not see what the CIA wrote", or >"Maybe I said it, or maybe I forgot". > >Another defence lawyer, Mr. William Taylor, raised serious doubts >about Mr. Giaka's claim that the defendants stored 11 kilograms of >TNT in a desk. >Each time the CIA, which was paying Mr. Giaka $US 1000 ($1850) a >month, threatened to cut him off as a worthless informant, Mr. Giaka >would come up with a new bit of information, he said. > >The FBI has protected Mr. Giaka, now a US citizen, for a decade, >despite his CIA record and extravagant claims he made before a grand >jury in Washington in October 1991 that he was a relative of former >King Idris of Libya, and that the presidents of Malta and Libya were >secretly part of a Masonic plot." JC ..... > >(JC ....and the FBI and CIA needed a 'credible' witness who could be >corrupted easily and cheaply -and now deported?) " JC > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
