So if this guy didn’t do it, why was the CIA willing to let the real perps get away? Interesting:
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 Mohmed 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. Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development.
We were so convinced it was the Libyans, we wouldn’t look at any other evidence, much of which pointed to either Syria or (this was still apartheid era) South Africa. The Israelis are convinced to this day it was a Syrian job. The argument for South Africa is the fact that the Namibian ambassador to the UN was on the flight, going to NY for negotiations on Namibian independence. The South African foreign minister was one of the lucky folks who was booked on the flight, but didn’t make it to the airport on time.