See also:

http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/

http://www.megrahimystory.net/

Thank you for this link. There are no surprises, for anyone who who has been following this wretched and tawdry saga. It does, however, bring all the pieces together into a single, splendid, piece of forensic analysis.

It is, however, particularly informative about the inglorious 'professional' background and past court appearances of the mendacious scoundrels who dirtied their hands in the past conviction of innocents. In this, of course, Gareth Peirce is especially well-informed. The world needs more of her, but one is enough to ensure that the truth gets out.

Fascinating and shocking stuff Craig.

As the article says, on the basis of evidence and "expert" witnesses of such poor quality, it is disturbing that three experienced Scottish judges convicted al-Megrahi, unless perhaps the defense were not doing their job properly.

Shaking my head in disbelief with this obvious miscarriage of justice--talk about a stacked deck.

Will the BBC carry this story?

MISSION-LOCKERBIE:
Writer Craig Murray, danke für die "Blumen", aber bitte schreiben Sie keine Artikel, wenn sie von "gehobener Materie" nichts verstehen! Lassen Sie sich bitte auf meiner Website, http://www.lockerbie.ch, orientieren! Alle meine Beweise am Gericht in Kamp van Zeist waren materielle Beweise, welche überprüft werden können !
Wenn Sie glauben sich in der "Lockerbie-Affäre" auszukennen, dann halten Sie mir bitte konkret einen fragwürdigen Beweis oder Sequenz meiner Aussagen am Gericht in Kamp van Zeist vor?

Es bleibt Tatsache, dass 20 MST-13 Timer mit grünen Circuit-boards, exklusive nur an Libyen, von MEBO Ltd geliefert wurden !

Zwei ähnliche Prototyp Timer mit gleicher MST-13 Bezeichnung, aber mit braunen Circuit-boards, wurden dem ostdeutschen Staatssicherheitsdienst (STASI) geliefert.

Aus einem dritten, von Ing. U: Lumpert gestohlenen, braunen Prototyp MST-13 Timer Circuit-board, wurde das angeblich in Lockerbie aufgefundene MST-13 Fragment, durch schottische Offizielle, fabriziert (manipuliert) !
Technische Hinweise beweisen, dass das braune MST-13 Timerfragment, Prod. (PT-35B) nicht von einem fuktionierenden Timer abstammt !!!

by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd., Switzerland

This kind of justice is not just confined to Megrahi or Scotland. It's commonplace in cases where the government has allegedly been involved in illicit activities such as procuring money through VAT carousel and excise frauds to buy and sell among other things arms to vulnerable countries. Similar features are often present such as serious failure to make disclosure, the defence appearing to work more for the Crown than their clients, judges particularly appeal judges who make irrational decisions and so on. In these cases the Crown often uses prosecution witnesses who were actually involved in the crime.
So basically it appears some judges are in the pocket of the government.

What I find extremely puzzling about Gareth Pierce’s story is this. She says: “It was precisely 38 minutes after Pan Am Flight 103 took off from Heathrow on 21 December 1988 that it exploded over Lockerbie. Within hours, the countryside around Lockerbie was occupied: local people helping with the search under the supervision of Dumfries and Galloway police realised to their astonishment that the terrain was dotted with unidentified Americans not under the command of the local police….scores of men, some wearing no insignia, some the insignia of the FBI and Pan Am (it was noted at the time that many of these men were clearly not Pan Am staff), invaded the area. Lockerbie residents reported seeing unmarked helicopters hovering overhead, carrying men with rifles whose telescopic sights were pointing directly at them.”

Presumably only those who planted the bomb, and those who knew that it had been planted, were in a position to know that it would detonate precisely 38 minutes after takeoff. It would be simple for them – but not for anyone else - to calculate approximately where the explosion would happen. But, says Pierce, within hours the disaster scene was inundated with Americans, some wearing FBI insignia, others unidentified. Where did they come from? How did they get to Lockerbie so quickly, if they had no inkling or premonition of a plot? One is driven to surmise that those who did plant the bomb could well have been the unwitting patsies of a ‘false flag’ operation. No wonder the USA doesn’t want the case to be re-examined.

Is the great lawyer Gareth Peirce from Birnberg Peirce & Partners - the law firm which represented some of the victims' families in the 2004 FV Gaul Formal Inquiry?

If so, I am surprised that the great lawyer was not at all indignant about that 'non-accidental' miscarriage of justice.

Gadfly

Why do you think she was not indignant?

I think the wikipedia article on Gareth is quite helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Peirce

Craig.

Often when I visit your site I get an blank page and the messsage Done in the status line. My time zone is GMT+10 so I am out of phase with you and may be attempting to access your site when it is in the early hours of your morning.

Is your site switched off at this time or is there a problem about which you are unaware.

There's been loads of stuff written about this at aangirfan's blog.

And what of the two CIA operatvives on board that were taking their findings of illegal arms and drug deals back to the states, in person, because their calls home weren't being dealt with?
(Sounds eerily similar to Craig's experience in Tashkent.)

What of the bags containing white powder, scattered all over a farmers field?

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/

Gadfly, Peirce sets out her case in a level-headed way; bluster and emotion would merely alienate a lot of readers. If you are any doubt about her outrage, consider her conclusion:
"The term miscarriage of justice carries with it the inference of accident, but also of death. There is a pressing need to investigate in detail how it has come about that there has been a form of death in this case – the death of justice – and who should be found responsible."

Oh Carlyle, I also get the same as you (quite often these days) and I'm in GMT, so it's likely to be a capacity issue or something a bit more irritating, like the interference by someone with something to lose.

I've had problems accessing this site late in the evening recently

# Craig at September 25, 2009 9:43 PM

"Gadfly

Why do you think she was not indignant?"

Craig,

If she was indignant, then she must have been so very quietly and unobserved.

You might have missed it Craig but I put the link to this LRB article on your previous piece about Lockerbie.

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There is a excellent analysis of the Al Megrahi case by Gareth Pierce in the London Review of Books.

Her forensic work ends with -

Al-Megrahi’s trial constituted a unique legal construct, engineered to achieve a political rapprochement, but its content was so manipulated that in reality there was only ever an illusion of a trial. Dr Köchler recorded at its conclusion that it was ‘not fair’ and that it was not ‘conducted in an objective manner’, so that there were ‘many more questions and doubts at the end than the beginning’. Since then, these doubts have not disappeared: on the contrary, the questions are graver, the doubts have grown and so has the strength of the evidence on which they are based. Köchler’s observations continue to have compelling relevance; he found the respect of the court, the defence lawyers included, for the ‘shrouds of secrecy’ and ‘national security considerations’ to be ‘totally incomprehensible to any rational observer’. ‘Proper judicial procedure,’ he continued, ‘is simply impossible if political interests and intelligence services – from whichever side – succeed in interfering in the actual conduct of a court.’

The term miscarriage of justice carries with it the inference of accident, but also of death. There is a pressing need to investigate in detail how it has come about that there has been a form of death in this case – the death of justice – and who should be found responsible.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/peir01_.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3118

Posted by: mary at September 18, 2009 12:02 PM

It's almost boring to bring this up, but...

On BBC Question Time last night, the Megrahi question came up - in the ludicrous context of Obama allegedly snubbing G Brown for a non-kitchen one-to-one meeting at the UN General Assembly because of US discontent at the release of al-Megrahi. All the five panellists (of which I recall there were H Harman, Heseltine, the absurd Lord Digby Jones and an execrable LibDem I hadn't seen before called David Laws) - supposedly representing a balanced range of views - debated this trivia, but not one mentioned the obvious point, that everyone who follows current affairs seriously knows, that Megrahi was fitted up as part of a deal with Libya in the first place.

So you've got five talking heads on that panel, representing each of the three mainstream political parties, and lying twats colluding in a massive propaganda smokescreem every last one of them. Predictable, yet still strangely disappointing.

Same again on BBC Radio 4 Any Questions, with the usually better than average LibDem Chris Huhne a particular offender.

The LibDems are rapidly chucking away my possible tactical vote for them at the next election.

A journalist friend of mine told me years ago exactly how Princess Diana was taken out. I took it with a pinch of salt.

He said the initial hit was to blind the driver by remotely igniting an almost invisible smear of high explosive on the windscreen...

I said where is the evidence of this? I didn't believe him...

And much more recently I met him again - and he said...

You can always tell when someone has been assassinated.

He said its standard procedure. In every highly suspect death of someone as important as Princess Diana - there is always the most detailed forensic evidence recorded - and a thorough body Autopsy

When its a State Job...there is the illusion of the detailed forensic evidence recorded - but they miss something out

There is no thorough body Autopsy...

Well except in the case of David Kelly and 9/11 - when they thought

Why bother? We don't need to any more.

They are all Brain Dead

Tony

У данной публикации неформальный, информативный стиль, спасибо Вам!

Craig,

Any chance you can put a piece on today abouth 9/11.

I'm sure the group NYC CAN, who are seeking an independent inquiry over 9/11 from the City of New York, could do with all the exposure they require. Does seem from their appeal letter to the Clerk, that yet again the establishment are trying to screw them....

regards

TFS

Yes, I find that this site is often unobtainable; either a blank page or "Server was reset whilst page was loading", generally late at night (GMT). "Pings" to the server are always returned. I've also e-mailed to Craig's Tiscali address about this.

Babelfish translations of above posts:

Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. at September 25, 2009 6:59 PM

"Writer Craig Murray, thanks for " Blumen" , but please you do not write articles, if them " of; elevated Materie" nothing understand! Let please on my website, http://www.lockerbie.ch, orient itself! All my proofs at the court in Kamp van Zeist were material proofs, which can be examined! If you believe yourselves in " Lockerbie Affäre" to be versed, then you reproach me please concretely a doubtful proof or sequence of my statements at the court in Kamp van Zeist? It remains fact that 20 MST-13 timers with green Circuit boards, exclusive were supplied only at Libya, by MEBO Ltd.! Two similar prototype timer with same MST-13 designation, but with brown Circuit boards, were supplied with to the East German public security service (state security service). From third, of engineer U: Lumpert stolen, brown prototype MST-13 timer Circuit board, was produced allegedly in Lockerbie found the MST-13 fragment, by Scottish official ones, (manipulated)! Technical references prove that the brown MST-13 timer fragment, Prod. (PT-35B) from a fuktionierenden timer does not descend!!!"

Sunny at September 26, 2009 2:35 AM

"This publication has nonformal, informative style, the thanks to you!"

Strategist You omitted the equally execrable Frazer Nelson of the Spectator on the QT panel. The programme is a joke and should be binned along with Dimblebore.

I misspelt his name - it is Fraser Nelson. I see he doubles up as political columnist! for the Screws of the World!! so part of the Murdochracy too. Enough said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Nelson

Sorry to continue but I have just been looking into the ownership of the media. Talk about incest.

The Spectator is owned by Press Holdings, chief Executive Andrew Neil!! also on the BBC all the time daily at noon with guests and late evening with Portillo and Abbot. Press Holdings is the Barclay Brothers holding company for these magazines - Apollo and Spectator, and newspapers - Daily, Sunday and Weekly Telegraph.

Neil ex Murdochracy editor is a link between Murdoch and the Barclays and Nelson works for both. Dennis Potter was right in his predictions given in his last interview with Melvin Bragg. I loved the man for his humanity and for his work and writing. http://www.wikio.com/video/1462376
the segment of the interview where he talks about Murdoch. He named his pancreatic cancer Rupert and was on liquid morphine at the time of the interview just before he died.

Mary,

thanks for your research, which is illuminating, as always.

The corruption of the mass media makes "democracy" ineffective.

The corruption of the judiciary also makes a 'democracy' ineffective by concealing state crime. The corruption seeps into every vestige of the system where matters sensitive to the state are present.

I suddenly feel like a plonker for posting about Thursday's BBC Question Time here when there is a full Craig post and discussion thread on that exact issue directly preceding!

I'd completely missed it. But I suppose it does show that independently I had been very struck by how disgraceful & bogus the QT panel consensus on "the Megrahi narrative" was.

I strongly recommend you don't wait another 20 years for the bandwagon to be in full swing before you express the same sentiments about those accused of the 7/7 bombings in London being Framed.

Craig,

On what basis do you 'affirm' (presuably on the basis of your former professional FCO experience) that "the FCO and MI6 knew that al-Megrahi was not the Lockerbie bomber"?

Your posting of 8 September referred to possible intelligence reports to this effect, which you say you did not read. Anything else?

Basically, this is a very serious claim for a former UK diplomat to make, and I wonder what hard evidence you have to back it up.

Disclaimer: I never had access to any secret or other FCO/MI6 papers on all this story, so I have nothing to offer myself on the substance as seen from the 'inside'.

Charles

Charles - you sound like a wanker. You, ostensibly are rubbing points of dissention over and over, but you never seem to 'come' and climax with any worthy point.

Courtenay,

Haha, droll indeed.

One of the merits of Craig's site is that it is based on the long experience of someone who worked at the sharp end of many tough foreign policy issues, and so might be thought to have some extra authority in pronouncing on them. That seems to be one reason why Craig's readers (such as you?) appreciate his writings - they trust his judgement.

The fact nonetheless remains that some of the points Craig makes are ridiculous. As a former diplomatic colleague I am unimpressed when he uses his authority to make claims which (in my view) are bogus or hypocritical.

My comment above was written in the hope of getting a clear answer on a huge policy issue. Craig 'affirms' that FCO/MI6 were not telling the truth. Has he seen any evidence for that? Or is it just a silly noise to play to the gallery? No answer as yet.

I am surprised by your response. Is not attention to detail and accuracy just what Barnett and Associates offer their sensitive capitalist clients wanting to set up offshore tax arrangements as part of wider Global Justice?

Nice reply Charles.

Very diplomatic, if I may say so. Actually in my law practice I really do my best, and thanks for noticing.

When you say," …he uses his authority to make claims which (in my view) are bogus or hypocritical.

My comment above was written in the hope of getting a clear answer on a huge policy issue. Craig 'affirms' that FCO/MI6 were not telling the truth. Has he seen any evidence for that?" there are two limbs we might consider.”

I fail to see in light of the reasoned argument, facts as outlined, and all this in the face of the abandoned appeal ( which grounds can be read and carefully considered) that the claims made by Murray could be categorised as either bogus or hypocritical.

On the second limb, it is for Murray to respond to the "huge policy issues", while it can't be in any serious doubt that FCO/MI6 have been known to lie. Recall the "Matrix Churchill case" Charles.

Now, in all fairness, I did call you a wanker and got a rise out of you, but I never said that you were totally devoid of thought processes, just wrong on this one.

Cheers mate!

Carlyle Moulton asks "what of the bags of white powder scattered over a farmer's field." The answer is that this was a hoax created for "The Maltese Double Cross". The farmer made no such claim. For Francovich and his acolytes evidence is sometimes the opposite of what people say.

And of the two CIA operatives returning to "blow the whistle" on some drug scam. Who says they were? Some fabricator?

I wsn't aware of two CIA operatives on the flight. In view of the experience of Dr Fieldhouse and the fact Americans were seen flying what appeared to be a coffin into Longtown I doubt there were any! A CIA officer made $10US million from the "Libyan solution". The "Drug Conspiracy" theory is, was and always has been a hoax.

For the true story read "Lockerbie - Criminal Justice or War by Other Means" at http://e-zeecon.blogspot.com

p.s.Craig - I suggest you look more closely at five than six!