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The Lockerbie Bombing

Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
The Lockerbie Bombing Book PDF

Author : Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 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

The Lockerbie Bombing

Kenny MacAskill
The Lockerbie Bombing Book PDF

Author : Kenny MacAskill
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785901065

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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.

The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

R. Doug Wicker
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Author : R. Doug Wicker
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0823936562

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The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by R. Doug Wicker Pdf

An account of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, focusing on the events leading up to the act of terrorism, the impact on people involved, and the investigation of this crime.

The Fall of Pan Am 103

Steven Emerson,Brian Duffy
The Fall of Pan Am 103 Book PDF

Author : Steven Emerson,Brian Duffy
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038654419

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The Fall of Pan Am 103 by Steven Emerson,Brian Duffy Pdf

What the investigation of the Pan Am 103 incident revealed and how this first evidence was pieced together.

Lockerbie: The Truth

Douglas Boyd
Lockerbie The Truth Book PDF

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750989657

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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.

Megrahi: You are My Jury

John Ashton
Megrahi You are My Jury Book PDF

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

The Lockerbie Bombing

Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
The Lockerbie Bombing Book PDF

Author : Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788853057

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The Lockerbie Bombing by Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph Pdf

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 Two. 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 USA 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.

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

Ken Dornstein
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky Book PDF

Author : Ken Dornstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

Scotbom

Richard Marquise
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Author : Richard Marquise
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.

The Lessons of Lockerbie

Paul Wilkinson
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Author : Paul Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015017020119

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The Lessons of Lockerbie by Paul Wilkinson Pdf

Om flykatastrofen den 21. december 1988, hvor Pan AM flight 103 efter en eksplotion styrtede ned over den skotske by Lockerbie

Air Crash Investigations

Allistair Fitzgerald
Air Crash Investigations Book PDF

Author : Allistair Fitzgerald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557729326

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Air Crash Investigations by Allistair Fitzgerald Pdf

On the 21st of December 1988, PANAM Flight 103, a Boeing 747-121, on its way from London Heathrow to New York, was blown up over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 persons on board of the aircraft and 11 residents of the town of Lockerbie were killed. In 2001 the Libyan Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment in Scotland. In 2009 Megrahi applied to be released from jail on compassionate grounds. His appeal was granted and on the 20th of August 2009 he was released from prison. But was Megrahi really guilty?

Lockerbie

Rodney Wallis
Lockerbie Book PDF

Author : Rodney Wallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313002922

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Lockerbie by Rodney Wallis Pdf

The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, personal knowledge of aviation security matters gained from his position at the crossroads of security information and the industry's endeavors to combat aviation terrorism, had warned the industry one year before the bombing that the interline element of baggage represented the prime opportunity for terrorist activity and had urged the adoption of passenger and baggage matching, a system that he had helped to develop. Mandated by the FAA for use at high risk airports, it was the feature missing from Pan Am's activity at Frankfort, an omission so cruelly exploited by the bombers. Wallis argues that the priority given by governments to technological solutions to the continuing terrorist threat puts the flying public at unnecessary risk every day. This volume brings together all of the facts surrounding the sabotage of Flight 103, including the investigation and the civil litigation in which so much of the story unfolded for the first time. It uncovers the fundamental weaknesses in Pan Am's communication and management policies. Wallis supports the policy that politics are politics and explores the possibility that U.S. and U.K. policy towards a neutral trial for the two Libyans indicted for the bombing, which may have been affected by the wider scenario of Middle East politics rather than simple justice for the victims of Lockerbie. Although the tragedy has led to improvements in defense technology for use against acts of aviation sabotage, these methods have yet to be applied universally.

The Media and Disasters

Joan Deppa,Maria Russell,Dona Hayes,Elizabeth Lynne Flocke
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Author : Joan Deppa,Maria Russell,Dona Hayes,Elizabeth Lynne Flocke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000860917

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The Media and Disasters by Joan Deppa,Maria Russell,Dona Hayes,Elizabeth Lynne Flocke Pdf

First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York’s Kennedy Airport, where families learned in the presence of the media that their loved ones had perished; Syracuse University, plunged into mourning the loss of 35 students from the school’s study abroad programme; and homes on both sides of the Atlantic, grief-stricken as news reached relatives of the passengers and crew. The authors, professors of communication at Syracuse University with years of media experience, began looking at the effects of such coverage because of what they experienced when the media came to cover the grieving on their campus. What they learned in the U.S. and the U.K. will interest those concerned about media coverage of crisis events, as well as those who communicate about them: journalists, survivors, public information officers, public relations practitioners, emergency support personnel, business and political leaders.

The Forgotten Flight

Stuart H. Newberger
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Author : Stuart H. Newberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786070937

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The Forgotten Flight by Stuart H. Newberger Pdf

On 19 September 1989, 170 people were killed when French Airlines UTA Flight 772 was destroyed by a suitcase bomb while en route from Chad to Paris. Despite being one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in history, it remained overshadowed by the Lockerbie tragedy that had taken place ten months earlier. Both attacks were carried out at the instruction of Libyan dictator Qaddafi, but while “Lockerbie” became synonymous with international terrorism, UTA 772 became the “forgotten flight”. As a lawyer, Stuart H. Newberger represented the families of the seven Americans killed in the UTA 772 attack. Now he brings all the pieces together to tell its story for the first time, revealing in riveting prose how French investigators cracked the case and taking us inside the courtroom to witness the litigation against the Libyan state that followed. In the age of globalization, The Forgotten Flight provides a fascinating insight into the pursuit of justice across international borders.

Adequately Explained by Stupidity?

Morag G. Kerr
Adequately Explained by Stupidity Book PDF

Author : Morag G. Kerr
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 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.