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 Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked ... |
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Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
MARCELLO MEGA
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.
But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now."
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.
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.
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I'm scratching my head here. Whom do you suppose was behind the Lockerbie disaster? You don't suppose it was the same production team that brought us the summer blockbuster of 2001, do you?
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| a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents. |
imagine that? 
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| I'm scratching my head here. Whom do you suppose was behind the Lockerbie disaster? You don't suppose it was the same production team that brought us the summer blockbuster of 2001, do you? |
I -- for one -- am baffled!
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One theory is that it was perpetrated by Iran, retaliating to the prior downing of an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf by a US missile, which killed a large number( around 250?) of civilian passengers.
Two Palestinians(on behalf of Iran) were said to have placed the bomb on the airliner in Frankfurt.
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