Posted on 08/21/2009 2:46:11 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb
Jason Allardyce, Mark Macaskill
American intelligence documents blaming Iran for the Lockerbie bombing would have been produced in court if the Libyan convicted of Britain’s worst terrorist attack had not dropped his appeal.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer expected to be freed this week, had instructed his lawyers to produce internal US intelligence communications unavailable to his defence team at his trial in 2000.
The cables, from the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), suggest that Iran was behind the attack on Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people in 1988, in response to the shooting down of an Iranian commercial airliner by the USS Vincennes, an American warship, five months earlier.
One document that the defence team had planned to produce was a memo from the DIA dated September 24, 1989. It states: “The bombing of the Pan Am flight was conceived, authorised and financed by Ali-Akbar (Mohtashemi-Pur), the former Iranian minister of interior.
“The execution of the operation was contracted to Ahmad (Jabril), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) leader, for a sum of 1,000,000 US dollars.
“One hundred thousand dollars of this money was given to Jabril up front in Damascus by the Iranian ambassador to Sy [ie Syria], Muhammad Hussan (Akhari) for initial expenses. The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission.”
The document is included in an unpublished report by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, a public body that considers miscarriage of justice claims and which had cast doubt in 2007 on the safety of Megrahi’s conviction.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Of course.
Iran is behind more terror incidents than most people realize.
A look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
And that is why Libya paid millions of dollars to the families of those killed on the Pan Am flight?
Which simply means that he was being paid by Iran to do the bombing! All of these groups worked “together” with Iran, Libya, Yeman, East Germany, the Soviets and many others ...
That Iran planned and financed it does not absolve him of responsibility - but would likely cause some idiot liberal pantywaiste to get thier string in a knot!
Umm one plausible explanation for that is several million in compensation is small change for the billions expected from oil/gas contracts.
I had heard that Iran was behind it too. Not that Libya was blameless, but it was probably the weakest sister of the co-conspirators. I think we ignored Iran’s role because we knew it would be a much tougher road to hoe to punish her and didn’t want to appear weak. It is also possible that this was revenge for the Iranian jet liner we accidently shot down in 1988. As a result, we might have just let it go as a tit for tat.
Thanks for posting the links, especially the victims link. Wish all the politicians, both sides of the atlantic, would read that report every day to remind them what we’re facing in this war.
KLA 007 was shot down, that was a sickening freebie.
Quds Force(Iranian) officers and enlisted operated heavily in Iraq, instructing and personally executing IED and Sniper attacks on our soldiers and in general on Iraq’s citizens.
George W. Bush allowed them to do so without any repercussions.
Of course the families of dead innocents on the civilian airliners were not consulted.
Every US adminstration since 1988 has failed to act on this intelligence (and perhaps TWA 800 to boot) for fear of upsetting chances for “Iranian moderates” to come to power. And look where that has got us.
You never heard of someone being paid handsomely to take a fall?
You’re welcome JoyJoyfromNJ and I agree.
Yes, that is what has been reported on Al-Jazeera/English. Libya agreed to the settlement in order to get the sanctions lifted. The whole thing is a joke. The guy who just got released is probably a Libyan intel officer. He probably played a very minor role in the bombing, which was supposedly done by Iran.
Now Libya gets to sell their natural gas and whatever else to us.
And you can look forward to an investigation into Iran’s involvement in that Pan Am plane being brought down.
The execution of the operation was contracted to Ahmad (Jabril), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) leader, for a sum of 1,000,000 US dollars.
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