LOCKERBIE FAKE GOES ON: BUSH SIGNS COMPENSATION LAW
Even if it is what UN observer Professor Dr. H. Köchler called: 'A spectacular miscarriage of justice', U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law legislation paving the way for Libya to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate U.S. victims of bombing attacks that Washington blames on Tripoli.
by Henk Ruyssenaars - Former Africa correspondent
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Professor H. Köchler in April 2000 as the international UN-observer at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands concerning the Lockerbie Trial, and his comments on the Scottish Court's verdict in August 2003 were bitter. "This has been a political court case, where the verdict already was decided upon in advance", a shocked Professor Köchler, the UN-observer at the Scottish Lockerbie Court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands stated. "The whole is a spectacular miscarriage of justice." he said.
"This was a classical case of a "Show Process" from the time of the Cold War. Like they had in the Soviet Union and East Germany before the Iron Curtain fell", Professor Hans Köchler commented, after the verdict of the Scottish Court's conclusion in the Lockerbie Trial.
In a 'strange' way his remarks have since 2003 hardly been used by the international propaganda media, covering the biggest and most expensive mass murder trial in British legal history which ended when the court upheld the conviction of the Libyan agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi." - The rest is at Url.: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4460.htm
WHAT WASHINGTON REGARDS AS LIBYAN TERRORIST ACTS
It's all a fake, but this is what Reuters now spreads from Washington: ''U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday (Aug. 4th 2008) signed into law legislation paving the way for Libya to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate U.S. victims of bombing attacks that Washington blames on Tripoli. The Libyan Claims Resolution Act clears the way to resolve all outstanding U.S. claims related to what Washington regards as Libyan terrorist acts. These include the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people and the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco that killed three people and wounded 229.
"For too many years, Libya has refused to accept responsibility for its horrific acts of terrorism against American victims," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democrat who sponsored the original legislation to allow compensation. "But after the pressure we applied, Libya will finally be held accountable for these devastating events. Our bill becoming law means these victims and their families can get the long overdue justice they deserve." The United States and Libya worked out a tentative deal to resolve all the outstanding cases. Libya has yet to sign the agreement but U.S. officials said they expected it to do so after the deal was signed into U.S. law.
Bush signed the bill before leaving Washington on a week-long visit to Asia. A group of Lockerbie victims' families said the new moves brought them a step closer to holding Libya accountable. "It is a relief to say that this part of our fight is coming to an end. There's still more work to be done and the families aren't done fighting for the truth," said Kara Weipz, spokeswoman for the Families of the Victims of Pan Am 103. "There are still a lot of things that we want to know."
FURTHER WARMING IN TIES BETWEEN TRIPOLI AND WASHINGTON?
Under the arrangement, Libya would not accept responsibility for the acts, but would provide the money to compensate the victims. If carried out, the deal could end the legal liability to Libya stemming from multiple lawsuits by families of the U.S. victims, and it could herald a further warming in ties between Tripoli and Washington. - (Editing by Mohammad Zargham) - [end item] - Source: 2008 The International Herald Tribune - TinyUrl.: http://tinyurl.com/63wc7u
Bush and his criminal buddies, including Sen. Lautenberg who sponsored the original legislation to allow this criminal 'compensation', know that Libya had absolutely nothing to do with either the La Belle disco bombing or the Lockerbie disaster, and even part of the families of the victims know Bush and his ilk are lying. –
Url.: plane-truth.com/megrahi_innocent.htm
The Guardian partly shows how it also was done: "The key prosecution witness in the Lockerbie bombing trial was allegedly offered a $2m reward in return for giving evidence, raising fresh doubts about the safety of the case. Lawyers for Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of murdering 270 people on board Pan Am Flight 103, have evidence that detectives investigating the bombing recommended that Tony Gauci, a shopkeeper from Malta, be given the payment after the case ended.
CENTRAL TO AL-MEGRAHI'S APPEAL AGAINST HIS CONVICTION
Mr Gauci's testimony at the trial was crucial to al-Megrahi's conviction. He told the trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands that the Libyan had bought clothes at his shop which the prosecution claimed were packed into the suitcase bomb that exploded over Lockerbie on December 21 1988. The defence team believe Mr Gauci may have received a larger sum from the US authorities. His role in the case is to be central to al-Megrahi's appeal against his conviction, which the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission said was unsafe.
They are to press for full disclosure of these payments, and the release of a potentially vital US document which is thought to cast doubt on official accounts about the timer allegedly used in the bombing, at an appeal hearing next week.
The secret document is believed to dispute prosecution claims that al-Megrahi used a digital timer bought from a Swiss company, Mebo, and then planted the bomb on a flight from Malta to Germany - a disclosure which would fatally undermine his conviction." Fresh doubts on Lockerbie conviction - The Guardian- TinyUrl.: http://tinyurl.com/5vzxem
Another paper, The Scotsman, stripped the following story of its web, and this is the result on Tuesday, 5 August, 2008: "There was an error loading the sponsor logo. The article has been unable to display." But, the text is still to be found on Internet: "Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked." - 'Scotland on Sunday' August 28, 2005 - by Marcello Mega.
KEY EVIDENCE IN THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING TRIAL WAS FABRICATED
A Former Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated. The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people. The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.
The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system. The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.
Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him." - [end excerpt] - The rest of the article is here at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/592n9a
Bush and his multinational managers and financiers better watch out: the $billions taken from Libya - which was innocent of the Lockerbie and La Belle bombing cases - to return to the international fold of the usurers, the 'free market' as they call it - is going to be a 'blowback' too.
And, as Libyan leader Moammar Ghadaffi said: ''The high fuel prices have already paid us for the 'Lockerbie fine' ten times over.''
And the excuses by all media which have been lying to you over and over again?
Well, don't hold your breath...
HENK RUYSSENAARS
For those who don't know it yet: the 'whodunnit' is in the links.
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