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Tag Archives: Lockerbie
Expanded version of my Scottish Review response to Magnus linklater
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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Tagged Iran, Libya, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Morag Kerr, PFLP-GC, Syria
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My response to Magnus Linklater’s Scottish Review Article
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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Tagged Iran, Libya, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, Morag Kerr, PFLP-GC, Syria
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The Crumbling Lockerbie Case
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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Tagged Fhimah, Iran, Libya, Lockerbie, Lord Advocate, Megrahi, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, PFLP-GC, Robert Mueller
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Private Eye rumbles Haselnut and The Ecologist
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
New Private Eye article
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
A letter to The Times and a response from Magnus Linklater
Below is an unpublished letter, which I wrote to The Times in response to Magnus Linklater’s article of 21 December (to which I responded at greater length in an open letter).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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Tagged conspiracy theorist, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, the Times
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Another open letter to Magnus Linklater
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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Tagged Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, SCCRC, the Times
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Released today: the Fuisz files
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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Tagged Channel 4 News, CIA, Fuisz, Jibril, Libya, Lockerbie, Megrahi, PFLP-GC, Syrian government
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Press reease for tonight’s Channel 4 News Lockerbie report
There follows the text of a press release issued this afternoon by Channel 4 News. I shall be releasing the documents upon which the report is based on this blog at 7.30 pm. REVEALED: Secret CIA testimony identifies true Lockerbie … Continue reading
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Tagged Channel 4 News, CIA, Jibril, Lockerbie, Megrahi, PFLP-GC, Richard Fuisz, Syria
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Operation Bird – some words of caution
Today’s media contains a number of articles about an investigation codenamed Operation Bird, which was carried out by a firm called Forensic Investigative Associates, on behalf of Abdelbaset’s defence team prior to his first appeal. The main articles, by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Talb, Dalkamoni, Lockerbie, Operation Bird, PFLP-GC, SCCRC
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