Lockerbie The Truth
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Lockerbie The Truth
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Author : Douglas Boyd
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2018-10-05
Lockerbie The Truth written by Douglas Boyd and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-05 with History categories.
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear; in some cases, it never did. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime – though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him innocent. Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran, not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988 (less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge. However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.
The Truth Never Dies
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Author : Charles Albert Booth
language : en
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
Release Date : 2011-05-01
The Truth Never Dies written by Charles Albert Booth and has been published by Melrose Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Bombings categories.
LOCKERBIE. While justice may have been done in the eyes of the law, to so many others it has not been carried out. Pan-Am Flight 103-Lockerbie: An international cover-up, or an air disaster? You decide. A combination of memoir and critical study, The Truth Never Dies is the definitive work on the Lockerbie Bombing of 1988.
The Lockerbie Bombing
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Author : Jim Swire
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2021-07-06
The Lockerbie Bombing written by Jim Swire and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with True Crime categories.
A father details his loss, grief, and fight for the truth following his daughter’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War II. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then, it has been revealed that the United States paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world’s most shocking events. Praise for The Lockerbie Bombing “It is hard to read this book without concluding that Dr Swire is right, and that for reasons that are both understandable and shameful, successive British governments repeated obstructed the investigation and they did so at the instigation of our American allies. . . . This book recounts Swire’s long and painful search for the truth about Lockerbie and his version is persuasive. It is disturbing too because, if he has it right, the Scottish judges who have now three times rejected appeals against the original verdict, have made it hard to have confidence in the integrity of our law.” —The Scotsman “Fascinating, compelling—a book about international intrigue, personal feelings, and ethics. Right at its heart is the search for truth.” —Kate Adie “Lockerbie's heartrending epitaph. . . . A shattering tale of grief and love.” —Daily Mail
Truth Never Dies
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Author : William C. Chasey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Truth Never Dies written by William C. Chasey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Truth Never Dies Book Description Many years have passed since I wrote about the Lockerbie Bombing, the most vicious International terrorist attack on Americans before 9/11. Over the years, I thought long and hard whether I should make public the story of my personal life during that time. After all, it could backfire and cause me serious repercussions. And then, something happened in my life that convinced me to tell my story. I was recently diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cancer and I realized then that if my story is to be told, I must tell it now. I want to be clear that this is my story and not the story of Lockerbie. My story doesn't pivot on “Who done it," but rather it focuses on the abuse of state power in which the CIA, FBI, IRS and federal judiciary all conspired to prevent me from helping resolve the dispute between the U. S. and Libya, and tried to blackmail me, a private American citizen, into participating in a state sponsored assassination. And what happened when I refused? My shocking real life story describes what these feared institutions working together, did to punish me and my family. My refusal resulted in personal embarrassment, financial ruin, criminal charges, and incarceration in Federal prison. Destroying my credibility and reputation in this matter became a goal at the highest levels of the Federal Government. I watched my life go from being at the top of my game, one of the most visible and successful Lobbyists in Washington DC., and from Foreign Agent 4221 to federal inmate 42938-083. My wife and I fought the good fight against all odds. We were decidedly outnumbered, vastly over-spent, and greatly out-gunned. Through it all, and with God's special blessings, our love and support for each other grew stronger. We know firsthand what President Gerald Ford meant when he said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have away.” This book is not about payback; it is not about anger and resentment. It tells the truth about the unjust persecution I suffered at the hands of the U.S. Government. I fully expect that the Government will deny what I have said, but now that my story has been written, I am confident that it will never die, because Truth Never Dies. William C. Chasey, Ph.D.
Megrahi You Are My Jury
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Author : John Ashton
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Megrahi You Are My Jury written by John Ashton and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with True Crime categories.
'You know me as the Lockerbie bomber. I know that I'm innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain's worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release. Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury'. (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi). For the first time the man known as 'the Lockerbie bomber' tells his story. This long-awaited book argues that, far from being an unrepentant terrorist, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the innocent victim of dirty politics, a flawed investigation and judicial folly. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock. Megrahi: You Are My Jury makes a compelling argument that the murderers of the 270 Lockerbie victims were acting on behalf of an entirely different government, rather than Colonel Gadafy and Libya.
The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky
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Author : Ken Dornstein
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-06-12
The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky written by Ken Dornstein and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-12 with Family & Relationships categories.
The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.
The Lockerbie Bombing
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Author : Kenny MacAskill
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-26
The Lockerbie Bombing written by Kenny MacAskill and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-26 with Political Science categories.
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard and devastating the small Scottish town of Lockerbie below. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, though few believe that he acted alone. In 2009, a request was made by Libya for al-Megrahi's release from prison on compassionate grounds after he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The decision to grant or deny that request fell squarely and exclusively on the shoulders of one man: Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Justice Secretary from 2007 to 2014. Detailing the build-up to the atrocity and the carnage left in its wake, MacAskill narrates the international investigation that followed and the diplomatic intrigue that saw a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands. He describes the controversial release of al-Megrahi, explains the international dimensions involved and lays bare the commercial and security interests that ran in the background throughout the investigation and trial. Finally, he answers how and why it happened – and who was really responsible for the worst terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil before or since.
Scotland S Shame
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Author : John Ashton
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2013-10-06
Scotland S Shame written by John Ashton and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-06 with History categories.
The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.
Adequately Explained By Stupidity
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Author : Morag G. Kerr
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2013-12-21
Adequately Explained By Stupidity written by Morag G. Kerr and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-21 with Political Science categories.
Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the controversial investigation and subsequent conviction. Concentrating almost entirely on the transfer baggage evidence, it exposes shocking deficiencies in both the police inquiry and the forensic investigation, which led the hunt in entirely the wrong direction. Cleverly constructed to lead the reader through the complexities of the case, the book provides insights which will be new to even the most seasoned Lockerbie pundit, while remaining accessible to those with little or no previous familiarity with the subject. The reader will see all the main aspects of the official account of the Lockerbie disaster comprehensively destroyed. This is the first book about Lockerbie to deal rigorously with the detail of the transfer baggage evidence. Dr. Kerr has been given access to reports, statements and photographs not previously available to the general public, and has analysed the information with forensic rigour. This analysis proves conclusively that the bomb that brought down the plane was introduced at Heathrow airport and not at Malta as claimed. Key Selling Points: • Published on the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, which happened on 21st December 1988. • Morag has been Secretary Depute of “Justice for Megrahi” since 2010, and is the author of the widely-acclaimed pamphlet Lockerbie: Fact and Fiction. • On 23rd December 1988, Morag was driving on the A74. This was the stimulus for her research into the subject.
Plane Truth
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Author : Carl Davies
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Plane Truth written by Carl Davies and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
A free-lance sleuth investigating the demise of Pan AM 103 over Lockerbie raises new questions about corporate and tribal loyalties, structural engineering, and money and politics, in a credible scenario that understandably could never be admitted by anyo