Lockerbie The Truth

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750989657

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Lockerbie: The Truth by Douglas Boyd Pdf

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear; in some cases, it never did. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime – though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him innocent. Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran, not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988 (less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge. However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.

Author : Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781788853057

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The Lockerbie Bombing by Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph Pdf

A father details his loss, grief, and fight for the truth following his daughter’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War II. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then, it has been revealed that the United States paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world’s most shocking events. Praise for The Lockerbie Bombing “It is hard to read this book without concluding that Dr Swire is right, and that for reasons that are both understandable and shameful, successive British governments repeated obstructed the investigation and they did so at the instigation of our American allies. . . . This book recounts Swire’s long and painful search for the truth about Lockerbie and his version is persuasive. It is disturbing too because, if he has it right, the Scottish judges who have now three times rejected appeals against the original verdict, have made it hard to have confidence in the integrity of our law.” —The Scotsman “Fascinating, compelling—a book about international intrigue, personal feelings, and ethics. Right at its heart is the search for truth.” —Kate Adie “Lockerbie's heartrending epitaph. . . . A shattering tale of grief and love.” —Daily Mail

Author : Ken Dornstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307386915

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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein Pdf

The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780857902320

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Megrahi: You are My Jury by John Ashton Pdf

'You know me as the Lockerbie bomber. I know that I'm innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain's worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release. Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury'. (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi). For the first time the man known as 'the Lockerbie bomber' tells his story. This long-awaited book argues that, far from being an unrepentant terrorist, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the innocent victim of dirty politics, a flawed investigation and judicial folly. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock. Megrahi: You Are My Jury makes a compelling argument that the murderers of the 270 Lockerbie victims were acting on behalf of an entirely different government, rather than Colonel Gadafy and Libya.

Author : James Robertson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241957998

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The Professor of Truth by James Robertson Pdf

The Professor of Truth is the newest novel by Saltire prizewinner James Robertson. Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what really happened on that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief. When an American intelligence officer, apparently terminally ill and determined to settle his own accounts before death, arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial, a fateful sequence of events is set in motion. Alan decides that he must travel to Australia to confront this witness, whose evidence he has always disbelieved, in the hope that this might at last be the breakthrough for which he has waited so long. Praise for The Testament of Gideon Mack: 'The story of a Presbyterian minister who comes back from a near-death experience claiming that he has met the devil, this is both a hugely gripping tale and a fascinating examination of the difference between faith and belief' FT Magazine 'A masterly piece of storytelling (and Scottish soul-reaching)' James Naughtie, Herald Praise for And the Land Lay Still: 'A wonderful novel . . . panoramic, illuminating and compassionate . . . the book represents nothing less than a landmark for the novel in Scotland, and underlines the author's position as one of Britain's best contemporary novelists' Irvine Welsh, Guardian 'Bold, discursive and deep, Robertson's sweeping history of life and politics in twentieth-century Scotland should not be ignored' Observer James Robertson is the author of four previous novels, The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still. Joseph Knight was awarded the two major Scottish literary awards in 2003/4 - the Saltire Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year - and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857906427

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Scotland's Shame by John Ashton Pdf

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.

Author : Richard Marquise
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875864518

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Scotbom by Richard Marquise Pdf

The top FBI official who managed all aspects of the investigation for the US reveals what it took to bring two Libyans to trial in this inside story of the 12-year investigation of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

Author : Morag G. Kerr
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783062508

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Adequately Explained by Stupidity? by Morag G. Kerr Pdf

Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the controversial investigation and subsequent conviction. Concentrating almost entirely on the transfer baggage evidence, it exposes shocking deficiencies in both the police inquiry and the forensic investigation, which led the hunt in entirely the wrong direction. Cleverly constructed to lead the reader through the complexities of the case, the book provides insights which will be new to even the most seasoned Lockerbie pundit, while remaining accessible to those with little or no previous familiarity with the subject. The reader will see all the main aspects of the official account of the Lockerbie disaster comprehensively destroyed. This is the first book about Lockerbie to deal rigorously with the detail of the transfer baggage evidence. Dr. Kerr has been given access to reports, statements and photographs not previously available to the general public, and has analysed the information with forensic rigour. This analysis proves conclusively that the bomb that brought down the plane was introduced at Heathrow airport and not at Malta as claimed. Key Selling Points: • Published on the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, which happened on 21st December 1988. • Morag has been Secretary Depute of “Justice for Megrahi” since 2010, and is the author of the widely-acclaimed pamphlet Lockerbie: Fact and Fiction. • On 23rd December 1988, Morag was driving on the A74. This was the stimulus for her research into the subject.

Author : Charles Albert Booth
Publisher : Melrose Book Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Bombings
ISBN : 1907040986

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The Truth Never Dies by Charles Albert Booth Pdf

LOCKERBIE. While justice may have been done in the eyes of the law, to so many others it has not been carried out. Pan-Am Flight 103-Lockerbie: An international cover-up, or an air disaster? You decide. A combination of memoir and critical study, The Truth Never Dies is the definitive work on the Lockerbie Bombing of 1988.

Author : Kenny MacAskill
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785901065

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The Lockerbie Bombing by Kenny MacAskill Pdf

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard and devastating the small Scottish town of Lockerbie below. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, though few believe that he acted alone. In 2009, a request was made by Libya for al-Megrahi's release from prison on compassionate grounds after he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The decision to grant or deny that request fell squarely and exclusively on the shoulders of one man: Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Justice Secretary from 2007 to 2014. Detailing the build-up to the atrocity and the carnage left in its wake, MacAskill narrates the international investigation that followed and the diplomatic intrigue that saw a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands. He describes the controversial release of al-Megrahi, explains the international dimensions involved and lays bare the commercial and security interests that ran in the background throughout the investigation and trial. Finally, he answers how and why it happened – and who was really responsible for the worst terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil before or since.

Author : Felicity Prazak
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780994468

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Libya's Unknown Atrocity by Felicity Prazak Pdf

A true account of Felicity's search for justice following the murder of her husband, Victor Prazak, in Libya. Victor died on the 22nd of December 1992 when the passenger plane he was travelling on was brought down by a Libyan military MiG. Victor, the only Westerner on board the plane, was buried in a mass grave in the Libyan Desert without Felicity's consent. She was not even allowed to attend the burial. After nineteen years of fighting to uncover the truth, the recent uprising in Libya has brought to light the facts of the case. She is still petitioning the British government for an inquest, and is involved in legal action against the Libyan state. ,

Author : Matthew Cox,Tom Foster
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988.
ISBN : 0802113826

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Their Darkest Day by Matthew Cox,Tom Foster Pdf

An account of the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, chronicles the stories of the people who perished in the disaster, describing the result of their tragic death on their families.

Author : David Ferguson,John Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845966635

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Cover-up of Convenience by David Ferguson,John Ashton Pdf

Author : Francis A. Boyle
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780986036200

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Destroying Libya and World Order by Francis A. Boyle Pdf

It took three decades for the United States government-spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)-to terminate the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with that from the perspective of an international law professor and lawyer who tried for over three decades to stop it. Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NA TO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and beyond. He sets the record straight on the series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office. Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice-and the unjust resolution of those disputes. Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”. He addresses how R2P served as the basis for the NATO assault on Libya in 2011, overriding the UN Charter commitment to state sovereignty and prevention of aggression. The purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000 Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali-with the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble for the natural resources of Africa. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries.

Author : Donald Goddard,Lester K. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1737276046

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Trail of the Octopus by Donald Goddard,Lester K. Coleman Pdf

From the conspiracy world - where pigs can fly, written in the early 1990s, this book may be a progenitor of the species Conspiracy book aficionados will applaud the reappearance of Trail of the Octopus. If not perhaps the Mother of the genre, it is certainly a classic, with all of the established elements: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Cypress, DEA, CIA, DIA, Justice Dept., drugs trafficking, Contras, Pan Am, Lockerbie, Bin Ladin, strange deaths, finger-pointing, perjury, media all the elements that have come to define the species. Curiously, the expression "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which claims the term was popularized by the CIAin order to discredit conspiratorial believers. Brought back to life by Steve Berry's 2013 novel The King's Deception, this edition is faithful to the authors' intent, it has corrected some typos and errors. It contains 8 illustrations, 16 documents, and an index.