Lockerbie Bombing: Libya was Framed

Linda S. Heard
Global Research
Feb 25, 2011

On December 21 1988, a Pan Am plane mysteriously exploded over Scotland causing the death of 270 people from 21 countries. The tragedy provoked global outrage. In 1991, two Libyans were charged with the bombing.

In the event, only Abdulbaset Ali Mohammad Al Megrahi, a Libyan agent, was pronounced guilty by a panel of three judges, who based their decision on largely circumstantial evidence. Al Megrahi and the Libyan government have protested their innocence all along.

Nevertheless, after suffering punitive UN sanctions which froze overseas Libyan bank accounts and prevented the import of spare parts needed for the country’s oil industry, Tripoli reluctantly agreed to pay $2.7 billion to victims? families ($10 million per family), on condition the pay-out would not be deemed as admission of guilt.

In February, 2004, the Libyan prime minister told the BBC that his country was innocent but was forced to pay-up as a “price for peace”.

Al Megrahi is currently serving a life sentence but earlier this year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled there may have been a miscarriage of justice on the basis of lost or destroyed evidence.

Later this month, a Scottish appeals court is due to revisit the case and is expected to overturn Al Megrahi’s conviction as unsafe.

The Libyan leader’s son Saif Al Islam recently said he is confident Al Megrahi will soon be found innocent and will be allowed to return home.

On Sunday, an Observer expose written by Alex Duval Smith reported “a key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake” with allegations of “international political intrigue and shoddy investigative work” levelled at “the British government, the FBI and the Scottish police”.

The Observer story maintains Ulrich Lumpert a Swiss engineer who was “a crucial witness” has now confessed that he lied about the origins of a timer switch.

Recently, Lumpert gave a sworn declaration to a Swiss court, which read “I stole a prototype MST-13 timing device” and “gave it without permission on June 22, 1989 to a person who was officially investigating the Lockerbie affair”.

Panel Demolishes Official 9/11 Story While Proposing State Initiatives for Justice

Consciouslifenews
By Greg Scott
February 17th, 2011


Architect Richard Gage changed the opinions of two dozen (24 of 25) individuals in the audience that previously believed the official 9/11 Commission story after presenting his evidence at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles.  The other panelists included Senator Mike Gravel, Joseph Culp (son of late actor, Robert Culp), writer Thomas Sawyer, and local activist Kathleen Rosenblatt.  Richard Gage presented startling evidence that all three buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.

Gage mentioned that, according to Time Magazine, 36% of Americans believe there should be a new investigation, which refers to a 2006 Scripps Poll in which 1/3 of Americans suspect a conspiracy.  He then also referred to a 2007 Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll in which 16% of Americans believe the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers were brought down by explosives.

Gage begged the question, did Al Qaeda have access to all three World Trade Centers and plant military grade thermite made in caves in Afghanistan in order to bring them down?  If not then who did?  He emphatically stated that there is enough hard evidence to warrant further investigation at the very least.

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Joe Rogan – The American War Machine (Warning Explicit Language) * The Alex Jones Channel

Joe Rogan – The American War Machine (Warning Explicit Language)

Youtube
Feb 17, 2011

A very cool combination of some of Rogan’s rants connected with some great video editing by a youtube user named “TheParadigmShift”.

Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball’s WMD lies

Ed Pilkington
Guardian
February 17, 2011

Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein’s bio-weapons capability.

Responding to the Guardian’s revelation that the source, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi or “Curveball” as his US and German handlers called him, admitted fabricating evidence of Iraq’s secret biological weapons programme, Powell said that questions should be put to the US agencies involved in compiling the case for war.

In particular he singled out the CIA and the Defence Intelligence Agency – the Pentagon’s military intelligence arm. Janabi, an Iraqi defector, was used as the primary source by the Bush administration to justify invading Iraq in March 2003. Doubts about his credibility circulated before the war and have been confirmed by his admission this week that he lied.

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US security contractors planned ‘WikiLeaks attack’

Press TV
February 16, 2011

The computer hackers’ collective Anonymous has uncovered a proposalby a consortium of private contractors to attack and discredit WikiLeaks.

Last week Anonymous volunteers broke into the servers of HB Gary Federal, a security company that sells investigative services to companies, and posted thousands of the firm’s emails on to the internet.

The attack was in revenge for claims by the company’s chief executive Aaron Barr that he had successfully infiltrated the shadowy cyber protest network and discovered details of its leadership and structure.

Hacktivists, journalists and bloggers have since pored over the emails and discovered what appears to be a proposal that was intended to be pitched to the Bank of America to sabotage WikiLeaks and discredit journalists who are sympathetic to the whistle-blowing website. Independent

HIGHLIGHTS

Aaron Barr, the company’s chief executive, was targeted by Anonymous following a newspaper interview in which he claimed to be able to expose senior members of the shadowy internet collective. Guardian

A PowerPoint presentation claims that a trio of internet security companies – HB Gary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies – are already prepared to attack WikiLeaks which is rumored to be getting ready to release a cache of potentially embarrassing information on the Bank of America. Independent

Another document sent by HB Gary Federal to Hunton & Williams, the law firm which has represented the Bank of America, suggests ways to “mitigate [the] effect of adversarial groups” on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for a fee of $2mn (£1.2mn(.

The Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have said that they had not known about the presentations, and that HB Gary Federal was never hired on their behalf. Berico Technologies and Palantir have also attempted to distance themselves from the leaked emails.

FACTS & FIGURES

Wikileaks has bewildered Washington with a plethora of confidential diplomatic cables revealing the undiplomatic face of U.S. policy.

Wikileaks was founded by Julian Assange in 2006 with the motto of “keep governments open.” It describes its objectives as bringing “important news and information to the public.”

Wikileaks most important release is arguably a video showing U.S. troops aboard a helicopter opening fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians — including Reuters cameramen.

In October 2010, Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 U.S. military reports about operations in Iraq. In July, it released more than 70,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan.

Diplomatic cables recently released by the whistle-blower website Wikileakes have revealed that the United States has been spying on NATO’s secretary-general.

According to classified State Department cables revealed by Wikileaks, the United States has expanded the role of American diplomats in collecting intelligence overseas and at the United Nations, ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries.

WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before Towers Fell

Youtube
Feb 16, 2011

There was a sharp rise in credit card transactions moving through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers. This could be a criminal enterprise-in which case, did they get advance warning? Or was it only a coincidence that more than $100 million was rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?

Terrorist Who Trained London Bombers Was Working For US Government

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 14, 2011

While talking heads like Glenn Beck continue to invoke the threat of radical Islam, they habitually ignore the blindingly obvious, that radical Islam is a creature of the US military-industrial complex. Case in point – the terrorist who trained the London bombers was a US informant and has been freed after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence.

Citing his “exceptional co-operation,” in working with US authorities, a New York Judge released Mohammed Junaid Babar despite him pleading guilty to five counts of terrorism, an outcome that has, “Raised questions over whether Babar was a US informer at the time he was helping to train the ringleader of the 7 July tube and bus bombings,” reports the London Guardian.

Babar admits to consorting with high level “Al-Qaeda” terrorists, as well as “providing senior members with money and equipment, running weapons.” He also set up a training camp in Pakistan in 2003 where alleged 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan learned bomb-making techniques.