Conspiracy Universe
John Paul May (jpm@TWEB.COM)
Sun, 10 Dec 1995 21:36:41 -0600
>[From The London Sunday Telegraph, 29 January 1995]
>
>Within hours of Pan Am flight 103 devastating the Scottish border
>village of Lockerbie in December 1988, a team of American secret
>agents was methodically working its way through the crash site.
>
>By the following morning a small area on the outskirts of the
>town had been sealed off. The Americans removed a suitcase full
>of heroin and some incriminating documents from a U.S. undercover
>agent, who died in the crash, and was taking part in a "sting"
>drug smuggling operation in Lebanon.
>
>Two months prior to Lockerbie, the worst civilian atrocity
>committed on British soil since the last war, the German security
>services had rounded up a Palestinian terrorist cell in
>Frankfurt.
>
>The ringleaders of the cell, sent to Germany to conduct terrorist
>operations, were caught red-handed. A primed bomb, almost
>identical to the one which destroyed the Pan Am flight, was found
>in the back of their car.
>
>After five days of questioning, and following a bitter dispute
>between rival German security agencies, 12 of the 14 Palestinians
>arrested were released in October 1988, together with their bomb-
>making equipment.
>
>One of those released, Marwan Khreesat, a known Jordanian bomb-
>maker, is believed by many experts on the case, with the key
>exceptions of American and British officialdom, to be the man who
>masterminded the placing of the bomb on the Pan Am flight at
>Frankfurt airport, which resulted in the murder of 270 people.
>
...
>
>Far from actively seeking the truth about Lockerbie, the British,
>German and American governments appear to engage in a contest to
>deny any new evidence about the disaster.
>
>Take last week. A top secret report, compiled by the intelligence
>wing of the American Air Force, was finally made public.
>
>The report, written *two* *years* after the Lockerbie bombing,
>stated that a prominent Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Akbar
>Mohtashemi, paid L6.5 million [6.5 million British pounds] for
>the Palestinian group arrested in Frankfurt to carry out the
>bombing.
>
>No sooner had the report been made public than the respective
>spokesmen for the British and American governments denied its
>authenticity.
>
>In Washington, it was dismissed as a "dud", the result of third-
>hand information which had been "mistakenly" channelled into the
>system. In Whitehall it was discounted as "old hat", nothing to
>get excited about.
>
>At no point did any of the various agencies involved in the
>Lockerbie investigation suggest the American report might be
>worthy of further attention.
>
...
>There are many reasons why the British and Americans have sought
>to protect both Syria and Iran from being implicated in
>Lockerbie. First there was the fate of the Western hostages held
>in Lebanon; then there was the need to keep Damascus and Teheran
>sweet during the Gulf war.
...
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