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Review of Aljazeera documentary ‘Lockerbie: What Really Happened?’

Posted on March 12, 2014 by John Ashton

Aljazeera last night premiered its long-awaited documentary Lockerbie: What Really Happened? The programme’s broad thrust, with which I agree, is that the bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by the PFLP-CG, with help from Hezbollah. It also suggests … Continue reading →

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Expanded version of my Scottish Review response to Magnus linklater

Posted on January 29, 2014 by John Ashton

Earlier this month, together with other supporters of the ‘Lockerbie bomber’, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, I found myself accused in the Scottish Review of being an obsessive conspiracy theorist, impervious to fact or reason. The article’s author, The Times columnist Magnus Linklater, … Continue reading →

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My response to Magnus Linklater’s Scottish Review Article

Posted on January 29, 2014 by John Ashton

The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater’s earlier article. I shall be posting an expanded version on this blog shortly. Please note that there is an editing mistake in the sentence: For reasons I am about … Continue reading →

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The Crumbling Lockerbie Case

Posted on January 26, 2014 by John Ashton

The following article by me has just been published under the above headline on the Consortium News website.   A quarter century ago, the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and later was pinned on a … Continue reading →

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Private Eye rumbles Haselnut and The Ecologist

Posted on January 22, 2014 by John Ashton

The latest issue of Private Eye carries the following article about everyone’s favourite Lockerbie crank Patrick ‘clinically sane’ Haseldine. Most hacks and news organisations have long blocked or junked rants from the Lockerbie-bombing conspiracy theorist Patrick Haseldine. Not so the … Continue reading →

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New Private Eye article

Posted on January 9, 2014 by John Ashton

The following article has been published in the latest issue of Private Eye (no. 1357). It was prompted by Magnus Linklater’s front page article in the Scottish edition of The Times, which was published on 21 December under the headlines … Continue reading →

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Embedded video of Channel 4 news item

Posted on January 7, 2014 by John Ashton

Here is the Channel 4 News report, broadcast on 20 December, which I co-produced with reporter Julian Rush.  

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A letter to The Times and a response from Magnus Linklater

Posted on December 29, 2013 by John Ashton

Below is an unpublished letter, which I wrote to The Times in response to Magnus Linklater’s article of 21 December (to which I responded at greater length in an open letter). It provoked a response from Mr Linklater, which I … Continue reading →

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Another open letter to Magnus Linklater

Posted on December 22, 2013 by John Ashton

Dear Magnus, More than two months ago I wrote you an open letter and invited your response. You promised that you would, but, so far, you have not. Yesterday you wrote another commentary piece for the Scottish edition of The … Continue reading →

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Released today: the Fuisz files

Posted on December 20, 2013 by John Ashton

I am today releasing remarkable documents, which reveal that senior Syrian sources were telling a deepcover CIA agent as late as 1995 that the Syrian based group the PFLP-GC was to blame for Lockerbie. The documents feature in tonight’s Channel 4 … Continue reading →

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