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Hate to sound like I have tinfoil on my head, but Ive been skeptical of the idea that Lybia was soley responsible for the bombing of PA 103.

I still believe it was done by Iran, planned by Iran carried out by PFLP-GC and with the knowledge of Syria, where PFLP was based. All done in retaliation of the shooting down of the Iran Air A300 on 7/4/1988.

I believe we were moving in that direction until the Gulf War 1991, when the Bush 41 administration wanting an Arab coalition against Sadaam choose to ignore Syria's involvement so Syria would help against Sadaam.

Maybe Lybian agents had a role, but I dont think Lybia was a huge player.

The following may have been part of a game of "blame the dead guy to get the live guy off the hook", but it is plausible, and definitely relevant here:

Abu Nidal 'behind Lockerbie bombing'
BBC
23 August, 2002
"Abu Nidal said during an inner-circle meeting of the leadership of the Revolutionary Council, 'I will tell you something very important and serious, the reports which link the Lockerbie act to others are false reports. We are behind what happened'," Mr Abu Bakr is quoted by the newspaper as saying. Abu Nidal told the meeting that if anyone leaked what he had said, "I will kill him even if he is in the arms of his wife"... Tam Dalyell, a left-wing Labour MP, has long argued that the Libyans were not responsible for the attack and that it was carried out by Abu Nidal... Abu Nidal set up his headquarters in the Libyan capital Tripoli in 1987. He was put under house arrest when Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi came under pressure to crack down on militants after the Lockerbie bombing. Mr Abu Bakr has given a series of exclusive interviews to the Saudi-owned, London-based al-Hayat since the first accounts of Abu Nidal's death emerged. He has told the newspaper that Abu Nidal ordered the bomb attack on a Gulf Air flight from Abu Dhabi to Karachi in 1983 that killed all 111 people on board. He also said that his former boss plotted to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1989 with the co-operation of an Arab state, but then aborted the plan. And he has claimed that Abu Nidal was responsible for the 1986 attack on a West Berlin disco that killed two US soldiers and a Turkish woman, and wounded 260 others, provoking American air strikes on Libya.