Posted on 12/21/2016 10:58:12 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American.
Islamic terrorists were accused of planting the bomb on the plane while it was at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany
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We didn’t know anyone personally, but that put such a hurt in my heart. I remember CNN showing one of the Syracuse University students’ mothers arriving at JFK to welcome her child home for Christmas, after being told of the crash, just collapsing to the ground, crying “my baby my baby” and even as I write this I am tearing up. It was heart wrenching.
And after all was said and done, those families are suffering to this day but the Scots freed the mastermind because he was supposedly dying (boo hoo) but he lived back at home for two years. More than any of those passengers was afforded.
We didn’t know anyone personally, but that put such a hurt in my heart. I remember CNN showing one of the Syracuse University students’ mothers arriving at JFK to welcome her child home for Christmas, after being told of the crash, just collapsing to the ground, crying “my baby my baby” and even as I write this I am tearing up. It was heart wrenching.
And after all was said and done, those families are suffering to this day but the Scots freed the mastermind because he was supposedly dying (boo hoo) but he lived back at home for two years. More than any of those passengers was afforded.
I worked in the ER of a very famous hospital for years.That hospital was known,worldwide,for its burn service so we saw many burn victims come through,having arrived from all over New England.
A surgical resident who had rotated to the burn service told me once that badly burned patients who died quickly were the lucky ones and that all too many of them died quite slowly.
Britian and US should have nuked Tripoli or Sirte over that incident...just as Reagan should have nuked Bandar Abass or Isfahan after the Beirut bombing....just to send a message.
I forgot about the Syracuse students. I just did a Google search and found out there were a total of 35 Syracuse students that were murdered.
Qadaffi had to go
He knew too much and was fixing to surrender to the West to save his hide
IMO Libya was a subcontractor for the real perps - in Tehran
Consider the timing
And the Vincennes and the Iranian Airbus
And that the Iranians never “avenged” the loss of that planeload of holiday travelers
At least, publicly
Curious
I still remember that day. I was out running around and during the mid-afternoon over the radio heard that a plane had gone missing from radar but nothing more at the time.
They went through a lot of different theories, including the Iranians did it for retaliation of the Iranian airbus we shot down — the one the Iranian government sacrificed hoping it would get shot down.
A young lady from our church, was on the flight. As a high schooler she used to baby-sit our kids. She was a study abroad student at the time. My gosh, she’d be in her 40’s now ...
After the Iraq war Qaddafi got scared straight and turned over his WMDs which made the Iraq war even more worth fighting. Face it, 0 and Granny Bobblehead destabilized the ME by quitting Iraq and deposing Khadafy. WTH they decided that unapproved warmongering was necessary i still cant reckon
Miriam’s Gift was written by her Mother, Rosemary Mild. Miriam was one of the students from Syracuse U. She was an only child. Rosemary’s story is remarkable in that she details how, even though she and Miriam were best friends, she learned so much after her death because the people of Scotland preserved every bit of the plane’s contents and returned them to the families. Also, over time, friends would tell her things which touched her heart! A truly heartbreaking story.
Our neighbor was Syracuse also-—there was a group returning from their semester abroad.
35 Syracuse kids died.
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