'David Yallop is widely considered to be the world's leading investigative writer' schrijft hij terecht op zijn website. Yallop zei vanavond in Netwerk dat als er na de uitspraak èrgens op de wereld champagne wordt gedronken, het is in het kantoor van Ahmed Jibril, volgens Yallop de pleger van de aanslag. Enkele jaren geleden al leek de terrorist Jibril aan als de meest waarschijnlijke kandidaat voor het uitvoerden van de opdracht van Iran. Hoe de vork in detail in de steel zou kunnen zitten, is te lezen in het onderstaande Engelstalige document dat ik heb samengesteld.

In het kort: de aanslag op PanAm 103 was een wraakactie van Iran, uitgevoerd door de palestijn Ahmed Jibril. Daarbij kan hij volgens sommige welingelichte bronnen gebruik hebben gemaakt van een drussmokkelroute van de CIA. Hierbij zou een drugskoffer zijn vervangen door een koffer met een bom. Een van de mensen die dit beweert is een voormalig agent van de Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lester Coleman. Tijdens het proces werd hij in de VS gevangen gehouden voor een akkefietje, zodat hij niet kon getuigen.
 
 

Lockerbie
An Iranian fatwa,
Syrian explosives, Libyan scape goats

By Daan de Wit
6 April 1999. Abdel Basset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, the two Libyan suspects arrive in the Netherlands to await their trial. They are being accused of downing Pan Am flight 103 above Lockerbie. While public opinion may be happy ‘they found the killers’, some experts say that they have disturbing proof these men are scapegoats. That the real reason and the real killers are part of an untold story.

The reason why Pan Am flight 103 was downed on December 21st 1988 is, according to the experts, not the reason as stated by U.S. officials. Not the attack on Libya by the Americans, but the downing on July 3rd 1988 by the USS Vincennes of an Iranian Airliner, killing 290 people, was the reason behind ‘Lockerbie’.

To revenge the 290 dead Iranians a fatwa was issued. This resulted directly into the contacting by Iran of the PFLP-GC, the Syria-backed terrorist organization of Ahmed Jibril that was ordered to take down an American airliner.

The US now says that the two Libyan suspects, who were then Libyan Arab Airlines officers stationed in Malta, put labels on the suitcase containing the bomb and sent on a death mission. From Malta it went unaccompanied on flight KM180. This even though Air Malta insists -and has the documents to show for it- there was "no unaccompanied baggage" on the flight to Frankfurt. In Frankfurt the suitcase then was transferred unaccompanied again onto Pan Am flight 103A to London. The FBI in a 1995 report on the subject found "no concrete evidence" that this ever happened. Supposedly the suitcase then was allowed to pass unaccompanied a third time to Pan Am 103 to New York, even though international rules require all unaccompanied bags to be X-rayed or searched.
 

Two situations
There are two ways of describing what really happened in relation to Lockerbie. Both will be explained in this document in detail.

Experts in the Lockerbie-case claim that the real reason the bomb could be placed on the Pan Am 103 was because baggage handlers were bribed to bring the bomb on board. Other experts add to this that these baggage handlers ‘normally’ were ordered to bring on board suitcases filled with drugs, that there was in fact an ongoing drug smuggling operation on that line, being exploited by the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and drug traffickers form Lebanon and Syria. Among the people who claim this are Lester Coleman, former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agent and Juval Aviv, head of Interfor, the security firm that had to investigate how the bomb was brought on board. In this scenario the drugs got on board, just as later the bomb, in an illegal manner. It worked as follows: suitcases of a courier, containing nothing special, pass the inspection in a normal fashion. Then by virtue of an accomplice at the baggage department his bags are being replaced by other ones, containing about 100 kilo’s of heroine, and brought on board.
Before the ill-fated Lockerbie-flight the baggage handlers responsible for this drug scheme were bribed by the Jibril group to bring on board an additional bag, containing the bomb. Because the flight was being delayed, the airplane didn’t explode above the North Atlantic, but above Lockerbie.

Because of the involvement of the Americans in the drug smuggling activities and because of the help the Americans needed from Syria in the Gulf war (more details later), the Jibril group is being protected. Officers of the German police that knew about the drug trafficking, didn’t put much value in the accusations of the American Justice Department that Libya was behind the attack.

What made the Pan Am flight more interesting to Jibril’s PFLP-GC group (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command) was the fact that on board were some important Americans. Among the victims were at least two -and possibly five- American intelligence agents with the DIA, the CIA, and the Assistant Director of the super secret OSI office in the Justice Department. OSI, according to William Hamilton, former U.S. intelligence analyst in Washington, D.C., was once responsible for hunting down Nazi war criminals, but now it is Justice's own in-house intelligence unit. Also on board was a young Lebanese-American from the Shiite Muslim community in Detroit, Kalid Nazir Jafaar. Jafaar's grandfather recently admitted in an on-camera interview that Kalid was cooperating with the DEA and the CIA. He could be the man that brought the unsuspicious suitcase and would have taken the swapped suitcase. In fact, the FBI leaked to CBS that Jafaar was the man that carried the suitcase with a bomb, planted by the PFLP-GC.

According to a CIA officer who’s identity is not being uncovered, the terrorist Jibril in a meeting in February 1989 admitted to having committed the attack. The CIA staffer had been working during the past ten years in the field of the Middle East and in counter-terrorism. To the German magazine Focus he says: "We got the first proof for this story in February 1989. One of our Near Eastern agents, a member of a Palestinian group, took part in an Islamic conference in Tehran. He had been invited by the then Iranian Interior Minister, Al Akbar Mohtashemi." In order to determine the value of the claims by Jibril, the CIA tracked down all kinds of important details.

From several sources and from data concerning the bomb, where it came from and via which routes it was transported (to the German commando branch of Jibril's organization, headed by Hafer Quessan Daikamouni. He was later arrested by the German police) it was determined that Jibril was right.

After this was established, Secretary of State James Baker flew to Damascus and told Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa that he knew who were responsible for executing the Iranian fatwa. But right in that period the situation changed overnight, and the policy had to change: Syria needed to become part of the coalition against Saddam. As scape goats the two Libyan men were accused by the US Justice Department. Coleman, Aviv, Chasey, Brennan -mentioned here below- who tried to uncover the truth behind the bombing, were all harassed by the Justice Department that misused the power of that agency to falsely accuse them of different issues.

Incriminating evidence
Before Lybia was accused of the bombing, the US and others held Jibril accountable, as can be read in many news clippings, from the Washington Post and other such news papers. The US only changed their standpoint after the Gulf war was about to begin and Syria needed to be an ally. Several documents show that the US in first instance accused the terrorist Jibril.

In May 1989, the State Department stated that the CIA was "confident" of the Iran/Syria/ PFLP-GC account of events, as could be read in the Washington Post.

On September 20 1989, The Times of London reported that "Security officials from Britain, the United States, and West Germany are ‘totally satisfied’ that it was the PFLP-GC" behind the crime.

New York Times: In December 1989, Scottish investigators announced that they had "hard evidence" of the involvement of the PFLP-GC in the bombing.

A National Security Agency (NSA) electronic intercept disclosed that Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Iranian interior minister, had paid Palestinian terrorists ten million dollars to gain revenge for the downed Iranian airplane. Department of the Air Force–Air Intelligence Agency intelligence summary report, dated March 4, 1991.
More examples can be given.

Two days after the Pan Am bombing, according to Neil Livingstone and David Halevy in their definitive book ‘Inside the PLO’, Iran's embassy in Beirut received a communication from the Interior Ministry in Tehran. The message, monitored by foreign intelligence agencies, congratulated the ambassador on a "successful operation" and gave instructions to hand over the remaining funds promised to the PFLP-GC. $10,000,000 in total.
Der Spiegel wrote that Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former co-founder of the Iranian intelligence agency, told German police that Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati asked Libya and Palestinian terrorists to help blow up an American airliner. Iran dismissed the allegation. In 1992, Abu Sharif, a political adviser to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, stated that the PLO had compiled a secret report which concluded that the bombing of Pan Am 103 was the work of a "Middle Eastern country" other than Libya.

· Lester Coleman
Former agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He wrote a book about the Pan Am case, named Trail of the Octopus. Several distributors in the US had initially agreed to handle it, but inexplicably backed down later. In Europe the book was removed from stores and reportedly unsold books were shredded. Coleman had worked for the DIA in the Middle East alongside DEA-agent Michael Hurley who, according to Coleman, monitored the CIA-DEA drug operation using Pan Am aircraft.

· Juval Aviv
Former head of the international firm Interfor, the company that for Pan Am and its insurance carrier US Underwriters investigated how the bomb was placed on board. He discovered exactly what Coleman sought to expose and Aviv wrote a detailed report to that effect.

· William Chasey
Lobbyist that wanted to arrange meetings between Libya and the US to bring to light the false accusations made by the American Justice Department against people that wanted to reveal the truth. Amongst them:

· John Brennan
President of US Underwriters, the insurance company of Pan Am. He instigated that the information about how the bomb was smuggled on board would be used in the court case.

· Rodney Stich
Critically acclaimed writer of the book Defrauding America -already a classic- describing the CIA and DEA drug imports through personal accounts of former CIA, DEA agents and other spooks.

· Allan Francovich
Produced the documentary The Maltese Doublecross, that handled about the Pan Am subject. Francovich is dead, probably killed.

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