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Posted on:8/21/09 @ 10:19 am
Subject: Lockerbie cover-up and truth
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Yesterday the Libyan convicted in 2001 for the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was released from prison on compassionate grounds. If anyone knows of or remembers the Pan Am air disaster over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 270 people, including many on the ground, and which was subsequently blamed on the Libyans, you may be interested in reading this book which has been banned and had much trouble seeing the light of day due to governmental intervention. I found it at the Ralph Nader online library, which is a quite interesting resource. The name of the book (which can be read and downloaded online) is:


TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS -- FROM BEIRUT TO LOCKERBIE -- INSIDE THE DIA


"The true story of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988 has been enshrouded in government-created lies. The American government claimed that two Libyan agents, acting alone, placed the bomb aboard an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt, Germany, where it was transferred to a London-bound 727, and then transferred again to the 747 Jumbo Jet at Heathrow Airport, destined for New York, the ill-fated flight 103. I knew better. I had spent the past four years gathering strategic intelligence on narco-terrorist cells in Lebanon as an agent for two Federal agencies -- the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s spy unit, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Two days after the bombing, appearing on the NBC Nightly News, I told Tom Brokaw and his television audience, 'We should take a close look at Libya -- renegade CIA operative Edwin Wilson sold Leader Muhammar Gadaffi 20 tons of plastique explosives and has trained the Libyans to make bombs.' I didn’t know then, but subsequently learned, that Wilson was no renegade. He had recruited Gadaffi at the behest of his CIA bosses, who then turned on him, arresting Wilson in 1977 and prosecuting him for doing what he had been ordered to do. While Wilson fought his battle against the CIA’s campaign of character assassination from a prison cell, Wilson’s partner Frank Terpil continued training Libyans in bomb-making and terror tactics. When Pan Am 103 was destroyed in mid-air in 1988, Gadaffi had been perfectly positioned to serve as the CIA’s scapegoat. Because Wilson knew the truth, the CIA’s campaign to discredit and silence him continued until 2003, when Judge Lynn Hughes ordered him released from Federal prison, declaring that the CIA’s story was 'nothing but lies.'"

A comment on a news post >>here alerted me to this disclosure about the book and sent me on a quest to find it.

There are many other fascinating resources about a wide variety of issues at the library. It is located here: The Ralph Nader Library.

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