THE HANDSTAND

AUGUST-OCTOBER2009


LOCKERBIE
Gravatar AS A SCOTSMAN WITH FRIENDS THAT LOST FAMILY IN LOCKERBIE. THE RELEASE OF THIS LIBYAN IS AN END OF AN INJUSTICE TO THIS MAN AND HIS FAMILY!!!
THE REAL KILLERS ARE STILL OUT THERE AND NEED TO BE HUNTED DOWN LIKE THE DOGS THEY ARE!!!!!!
CIA PLANTED THE EVIDENCE
Lockerbie evidence 'planted by CIA'
Crucial evidence against two Libyans for the Lockerbie bombing was planted by the CIA, it was claimed in the Commons yesterday.
A fragment of circuit board alleged to have been part of the bomb's timing mechanism is the sole item of physical evidence linking the two Libyans to the December 1988 bombing. But Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow, declared: "I have come to suspect that the timing device in question was not that of Pan Am 103 but a different timing device that the CIA had picked up from the Libyans ... I have been driven to the conclusion that the device was a CIA plant."
Mr Dalyell, a long-standing critic of US and British government insistence that Libya was behind the attack, said an analysis of the fragment had shown it had been exposed to a temperature of 4,000deg C. But a Swiss police specialist had cast doubt on this, saying the explosion would have lasted only a fraction of a second in outside air temperatures of about minus 40C.
Accusing the Crown Office, the Scottish prosecuting authority, of failing to follow up the right leads, Mr Dalyell said - to strident denials from Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, the Scottish Office minister - that it had allowed itself for six years "to be suborned by political pressure into failing to carry out its duty".
He said this was a "wicked" dereliction of duty that brought shame on Britain.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new...ia- 1586487.html
THE SALESMAN OF THE CIRCUT BOARD EVIDENCE SAYS ITS FAKE AS WELL!!!
Edwin Bollier, had sold 20 so-called MST-13 timers (identical to the one found in Senegal) to Libya in 1985, in the hope of winning a contract to supply the Libyan military.
Bollier testified at the trial that the Scottish police had originally shown him a fragment of a brown 8-ply circuit board, of a prototype timer which had never been supplied to Libya. Yet the sample he was asked to identify at the trial was a green 9-ply circuit board that Mebo had indeed supplied to Libya. Bollier wanted to pursue this discrepancy, but was told by trial Judge, Lord Sutherland, that he could not do so
Once alerted by Edwin Bollier of Mebo to the Megrahi–Fhimah friendship and business relationship, Scottish police obtained permission to search Fhimah's office in Malta. There they found a diary he had kept, in which he had reminded himself, on December 15, 1988, in English, to "take taggs [sic] from Air Malta."
However, Air Malta issued a statement in 1989, denying that an unaccompanied suitcase could have been carried on Flight KM 180:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Inv...n_Am_Flight_103
THE SCOTTISH POLICE GAVE FALSE STATEMENTS
An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002.
The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents.
"Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified.
"He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal."
The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward.
"He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted.

The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives.
Thurman has been revealed as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials. He had little in the way of scientific qualifications.
The US attorney General has accused him of having altered lab reports in a way that rendered subsequent prosecutions all but impossible. He has been transferred out the FBI forensic laboratory.
In 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/20...idence- was.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ tol...ticle584098.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/ 200...tics.lockerbie1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ busine...eindustry.libya

THE COVER UP!!!
The interim and final reports from Mackay and Robertson came a few months after the start of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in which Lord Advocate Lord Boyd was leading for the prosecution. With the eyes of the world focused on the Scottish judicial system, it would have undermined the Crown's case to have the SCRO and its fingerprint experts prosecuted for covering up acts of criminality. In addition, SCRO director Harry Bell had been a central figure in the Malta part of the Investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and had given evidence at the trial. Furthermore two American fingerprint experts, David Grieve and Pat Wertheim – who gave evidence for McKie at her perjury trial – were reportedly warned by the FBI to back off, lest they scupper the trial of the "Lockerbie bombers".
Lord Boyd has denied there was any Lockerbie link. But at Prime Minister's Questions on March 6, 2006 Tony Blair was challenged by the leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond, over evidence in the previous day's Scotsman newspaper suggesting that the FBI put pressure on Scottish officials not to reopen the McKie case. Had the case been reopened, Salmond alleged, questions would have been raised over the reliability of the forensic evidence used to convict Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi. Downing Street later said that the Prime Minister would write to Mr Salmond once he had considered the new revelations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sco...to_Lockerbie.3F
SCOTTISH JUSTICE SYSTEM IS TOTALLY CORRUPT!!! EVERYONE IN SCOTLAND KNOWS THIS ,ITS NOT NEWS.SO WHAT HAPPENED?
One theory suggests that U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents had set up a protected drug route from Europe to the United States—allegedly called Operation Corea—that allowed Syrian drug dealers, led by Monzer al-Kassar (who was involved with Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal) to ship heroin to the U.S. using Pan Am flights, in exchange for intelligence on Palestinian groups holding hostages in Syria.[11] The CIA allegedly protected the suitcases containing the drugs and made sure they were not searched. On the day of the bombing, as the theory goes, terrorists exchanged suitcases: one with drugs for one with a bomb.
Time introduced another version of this theory, claiming that the American intelligence officers on PA 103 – Matthew Gannon and Maj. Charles McKee – had found out about the drug operation, and were headed to Washington to raise their concerns about its impact on their hostage rescue plans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Alt..._drug_smuggling