All language subtitles for The Maltese Double Cross - Lockerbie (Allan Francovich, 1994) Eng w⁄ German Subs (Englisch)

I thought it was an earthquake actually and  then I rushed out. I'd looked up and I seen

the engine coming down and they were away 50  50 yards from my house and the planes away

the other end of town. Oh my god, it's terrible.  Then sparks and then the whole thing went dumb.

In February 1990 with some others from the  UK family's group. Um I met the American

President's Commission on Aviation Security  and Terrorism at the American Embassy. That

was in February 1990. And at the end  of that meeting, after we'd broken up,

one of the members of the commission said to  me, "Your government and ours know exactly

what happened, but they're never going to  tell." In the beginning, a hand, a bag,

and a baggage tag. And a radio that plays  cassettes and has its own flip side, a bomb.

Most of what we read in the papers is true,  but no official party is going to tell you

what's true and what isn't true. For three  years, the United States and Scotland have

been conducting one of the most exhaustive  and complex investigations in history. Today,

we are announcing an indictment in the case.  We charge that two Libyan officials acting as

operatives of the Libyan Intelligence Service  along with other co-conspirators planted and

detonated the bomb that destroyed Panama  Flight 103. At this moment, Lord Frasier,

chief prosecutor of Scotland, is announcing  parallel charges. I have just telephoned

some of the families of those murdered in Panama  Flight 103 to inform them and the organizations of

survivors that this indictment has been returned.  Their loss has been ever present in our minds.

to one of my family when he going to the airport  harani give him one tricod from his sister he said

that's remember it from my sister don't forget  the t recorder and he go in the side of him with

him like bodyguard to the airport that's what  happened with him and give him little picod fix

everything for him here in Germany and give it  to him to the airport and he don't know about

Around coolen

peak

the mist is sailing

the b sheer

not of willing.

But my blue

with so

dreaming

for him that will never return. I was driving  along the road there. They're just pieces of

something lying on the road and nets and a bag.  And when I got out of the car to shift them,

I found well, it was a luggage, a hold. And uh  chucked everything off the road to get past. And

I drove back up to the farm. And when I got here,  there was nobody in the house at all. The dog,

they were waiting the road. I'll found it  later on. But when I got back, there was shoes,

people shoes, and a burst aerosol can. I can  remember the m it was spraying about in the

doorstep in front of the house. Later on, a fella  landed in for the I don't know if it was mountain

rescue. It was a bloke with a dog and explained  what had happened that a plane had crashed. So,

I went out with him. I think it was about 2:00  in the morning when I got back. And he had the

dog maybe looking for well somebody thinking might  be somebody still alive or something or whatever.

I could really see we're finding great big bits  of airplane and just seemed to be hundreds of

suitcases. There wouldn't have be, but it  seemed like it at the time. And also a lot

of Christmas presents that I Yeah, they were  perfect. And there was nothing wrong with a

wrapping on them or anything. I think the worst  was I picked a we picked a present up and it

uh on the card in the outside it said sorry  she couldn't have be back for Christmas and I

kind of just mind what it was but that really was  quite sickening to think that the lassie that was

sending it would well she'd never be back. Jane  and I were both uh at home in Bronze Grove and

um I was actually in my study doing a kind of  family calendar with a picture for each month

for various people for Christmas and Jane called  me through because she'd heard on the television

about an air crash. And uh first my first reaction  was that it couldn't be anything to do with Flora

because I thought she would have been uh out in  Mid-Atlantic by that time. And in fact, of course,

we didn't know that the plane had been delayed a  little bit. But I just came through and we watched

these dreadful pictures of the little town of  Locker being in flames and and at that time

I I think I I felt it wasn't Flora's plane. The  plane did come down actually where houses were.

Houses are not there now. It's just a bit cr where  the houses used to be. There was debris falling

everywhere and I thought the whole roof was going  to cave in and I us looked out the back window and

all I could see was fires starting up, you know,  just right over the whole countryside was blaze.

I knew Flora had left that evening for the States  where she had gone to stay with her boyfriend over

Christmas. And um I switched on the television  just for something to look at while I made the

supper really. And there was this news flash  that there had been a crash in Scotland of a

Panama plane. Well, immediately my heart began to  thump because I knew she was traveling by Panama.

I was sort of gripped with that icy cold fear  that I think every mother has when her children

are in danger. It's just the most incredible  devastation. It's just uh it's unbelievable.

It's it's impossible, I think, to just to  even imagine such an extraordinary tragedy.

We had an aircraft going out that night, a  727 which was taking various members of our

company up to locker and also uh we had a private  aircraft to deal with uh which was um the American

ambassador who was going up to the site. As far as  I can recall, there were about 40 people excluding

crew on board, of which I would estimate uh 50%  of those were known to me as Panama people. Uh

the others I I wasn't aware of their affiliations  at all. on the night uh I was started to set up

a control room and by about between 11:00 and  midnight we actually had a member of the FBI in

the the office uh who came into came in introduced  himself to me and sat down and uh and just most of

the night observing what was happening. the  local police force Duncan Gallery. Uh they

were concerned at the swarms of Americans fiddling  with bodies and shall we say tampering with those

things that the police were carefully checking  themselves. I'm not pretending that they said

they are from the FBI or the CIA. uh they were  just Americans who seem to have arrived extremely

quickly on the scene. I was asked to go to various  locations in and around Lockerby to look for

bodies. At first it was in the early hours of the  morning in very high winds about 30 40 mph ground

level. When we'd uh gone down one large field  and identified about 10 bodies, we thought we

ought to retrace our steps and put some form of  identification on them. And so uh the only thing

I had with me was a a block of small white labels  and 100 or so plastic gloves which I carry at all

times as part of my usual police certain duties.  And so we or I put a code on everyone DCF being my

initials DCF1 right through to 58 or the bodies  in that particular sector. I learned later that

when the bodies were taken to the motory all the  labels which I had put on them had been removed

with the exception of two and those two labels  were identified on photographs later on. But for

all the rest every other one had been removed  and disregarded. Very strange people popped out

the woodwork very early on. Within a matter of 3  hours, there were American accents heard in the

town. Over that night, there were large numbers by  which I mean 20, 25, 30 people arrived. The next

day, as somebody commented at the time, that's  subtle. There was a whole bevy of uh people walked

down the main street with blue wind cheaters and  baseball hats with FBI on them. But there were a

lot of other Americans in the town over the first  12 hours that weren't wearing FBI wind cheaters.

I don't know who they are. I know who some of  them were, and they certainly weren't tourists.

In the morning, when more cameras have arrived, it  is the turn of the dignitaries, a junior prince,

and the prime minister herself. There are bits  and pieces of the aircraft and I've spoken to an

accident investigator whose first impressions  were absolutely stunned and he'd never come

across something quite as big as disaster as this.  I've also been up to the hill to see the cockpit

area and that I think is a high priority to the  investigators to uh see if they can find anything

from there. It is very moving indeed because  there are a lot of personal possessions that

you can see scattered about. Speculation is not  evidence and they are systematically obtaining

the evidence and systematically searching  the hills around further people and evidence.

I suppose that statistically something like this  has got to happen at some stage on a town. It is

most sad and unfortunate that it's had to happen  to Locker and of course so close to Christmas. The

mountain rescue teams with dogs from Free North  and South Yorkshire Cumbria were the first to

scour the terrain. Members of rescue teams on the  site within 2 hours found Americans already there.

The police and military are still prohibited by  the British official secrets act from speaking.

This helicopter was flying overflying the area  and uh a chappie was looking at it at me out

of a telescopic sight of a rifle which is a you  know probably some secret service man or other.

It was a white white unmarked helicopter for all  intent and purpose civilian helicopter. almost had

an opening door and they sat in the doorway just  scanning the landscape with this telescopic sight

on the rifle. Those helicopters landing just even  behind me here in the field. They were landing

quite regular. In fact, there was another one  landed in the a tiny wee paddock in front of the

house. It was they were constant. They were every  day for days on end they were flying over. It was

thought that it was very odd and strange that so  many people uh should be involved in moving bodies

uh looking at luggage uh who were not members of  the investigating force. What were they looking

for so carefully? You know, this was not just uh  searching desperately uh for loved ones. It was

far more than that. It was careful examination  of baggage and indeed bodies. Later on there

was some Americans. I was speaking to them on  top of the hill. I was checking my sheep on

the hill at the time and asked us not to go up  near this we wood on the top because so I just

presumed they were looking for something  but I just steered clear the way. I heard

a story about two suitcases full of money on the  other plane but of course I didn't see anything.

Well, the cockpit was like the head of some  mortally wounded bird. It was instantly

recognizable as a cockpit. And as daylight  broke on the first full day of the disaster,

the bodies were in an arc right around the  the hills that form the sort of amphitheater

here. And they were well spread out. It  was soft ground. A lot of them had made

indentations and even a year afterwards the  animals wouldn't graze where the bodies had

landed. It was if they knew that something very  terrible and yet very sacred had happened there.

I rang up um a number of times and said who I was  and eventually I established a good relationship

over the telephone with one of the doctors who  was doing the postmortems and um it was he who

arranged for me to see her body. I think very much  counter to the instructions he'd been given. But

um he undertook to have the body put somewhere  where I could see it and identify it and he was

extremely kind to me when I when I went in to see  the body. Uh one thing I wanted was a lock of hair

and uh again it's one of those vivid memories he  went away and got a pair of scissors got me a lock

of hair. There was no official announcement. The  first seven bodies were released to be taken by

road south to London for onward transportation  to the relatives. And I'll never forget it. All

of a sudden, the main street in Lockerby was full  of people. They were standing three deep on the

pavements. Not a word was said. They stood quietly  to bid farewell, to pay their respect to seven

dead victims. And as I say, it was one of the most  moving things I've ever seen in 40 odd years. It

was it was very beautiful and it was proper. We  got a message, I think about 6:00 that night to

see that the first bodies were being taken out  of the town um about 8:00. So if we possible,

could we go down the street to show respect? So  there was a lot of people. I don't really don't

maybe two or 300 of the locals lying the streets.  And when the first lorry came around the town hall

with the bodies in it, it was really very very  upsetting to see it going away. Yes, it was nice

that they were going home, but um just sad that  they had to go home in such circumstances. We

thank you for the love that our dead brothers and  sisters poured out in their life on earth. And we

recall with faith the words of St. Paul, love  does not come to an end. Father, we thank you

for that indestructible love which came into our  lives and will remain with us forever. Amen. Amen.

Your brother will rise again. I know that he  will rise again, said Martha. Do you believe

this? I do, she answered. I now believe that you  are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come

into the world. Thanks be to God for his gospel.  And so for these dead that had fallen out of the

sky into Scotland, a first memorial service,  a winter January morning, Martha's story read

in the presence of the Iron Lady. Over the motor  flyway, on the road to Loch Maben, in the village

graveyard, all death is local. On the stones,  there is even the street. High Street for instance

where a Roger for instance died. Generation  buried with generation, grandmother with grandson,

father of stillborn daughter. But there also are  other deaths recorded here. Wanderers away at war,

away earning and saving. Brought home,  sent home from Gallipoli, killed in action.

Gaza dead of wounds. South and East Africa,  Medicine Hat, Province of Alberta and Kolkata.

So they know that what these other dead  had and owned is all that will ever be

left of what they were, and that it  must all be folded up and put away.

1993 before the fifth anniversary,  still on offer, a $4 million reward

for terrorists. After the third anniversary,  two governments had issued indictments against

two Libyans. Why is a government then now  paying for this newspaper advertisement?

The third, the fourth, and now a fifth memorial.

The governments seem to hope the  memorials will go on and on and on,

year after year until all that is left is a  fading memory clanging in a Belfrey tower.

Why has a full independent inquiry  been consistently refused? Why after

5 years have no real answers been  supplied? Elia Stratus, Anthony Swan,

Flora Swire, James Smith, Mary Smith,  Geraldine Stevenson, Hannah Stevenson,

John Stevenson, Rachel Stevenson, Charlotte  Stinette, Michael Stinette, Stacy Stinette.

Over five years, a very disturbing  story has emerged about warnings. A

wellrespected international journalist,  David Yalop, had interviewed Abu Nidal,

who had warned him that there was going  to be an attack on an American airliner.

Yalop flew immediately back to London and  notified the British authorities. MI6 Abu Nidal,

mastermind of the Rome and Vienna airport  massacres, now trying to stop more killing.

I was in Libya um to interview Gaddafi and Abu  Nudal and a group of other people. I'd had a

conversation with a man called Brian Crosier who's  a an asset for the CIA and MI6 and I'd been asked

by him to ask three or four specific questions  to Nidal. Nidal had told me that he'd been he

was being put under great pressure by the Syrians  to reactivate against an American target. I typed

up uh an eight-page report which I have a copy  of here in which I talk about the pressure being

put on Nidal by both Syria and Iraq at that time  to resume terror tactics and I then elaborated

beyond the report specifically with regard to the  pressure from Syria um and to a potential American

target. Uh I I was insistent that this information  this was by the way given not just to Crosia but

to a senior member of MI6 uh by myself um that  this should be shared with the CIA and should

be shared with them immediately. After that there  was a warning to the American embassy in Helsinki.

Frighteningly specific. A woman would carry a bomb  on board an American airliner at Frankfurt heading

for New York. that was circulated again through  Interpol and again through the American State

Department warning system. In the buildup prior to  the tragedy, there were a number of warnings that

came out through the FAA and uh various other  agencies. The particular one that uh was of

interest to me uh was the Helsinki warning which  I first uh had knowledge of um I believe it was on

the morning of the 8th of December. We did indeed  receive on December 9th uh an advisory uh based

on an untested source in terms of reliability.  That information was disseminated throughout this

embassy and we advised all appropriate British  authorities including all American carriers. I'd

received a TX. I was in Brussels actually on the  morning and I'd received a tell from headquarters

that I was to go to Helsinki and that I was to get  further information from my colleague in Frankfurt

who I telephoned and then subsequently came back  to London and made arrangements to travel to

Helsinki later that day. It was an unidentified  caller that apparently made a phone call to

our embassy in Helsinki. I got the impression  from the person I was discussing it with that

um it had been thoroughly checked out and was  considered to be a hoax. We receive dozens of

threats each day. We always take them seriously.  In this case, we took action immediately. We were

notified of it. It was circulated uh to uh all the  appropriate commands. Uh to anticipate your next

question. No. Uh, as far as I can determine  at this point, it was not posted on bulletin

boards. Almost at the same time as I was talking  to these two secret agents um here in London that

a warning had come from Helsinki that talked of  uh the bombing of a a Frankfurt bound plane and

that other warnings were even more specific and  talked of Penm 103. And what beused me was that

all of us had in our own way given pieces  of a very crucial puzzle to intelligence

which they chosen to ignore. Or so it seemed that  subsequently it became apparent to me from further

inquiries that they hadn't ignored them and that a  number of VIPs were pulled off that plane a number

of intelligence operatives were pulled off that  plane. The South Africans, particularly Pikbotha,

uh were booked on uh uh flight 103 and  uh changed pretty much at the last hour

or so. These South Africans had been warned by  Bureau of State Security to change reservations.

The South Africans booked on flight 103 council  just before departure along with Pete Boa,

General Malin the defense minister and General  VanD head of the secret service boss and other

senior government officials. Both Malin  and Van confirmed this change in travel

arrangements to British businessman Tiny  Rollins. They tell him the source of the

information was of the kind that could not be  dismissed. Both are rebuks on the earlier panam

101. General van and two other members  of boss cancelled their trip altogether.

Boss has close ties to two major to two very  important services to the Israeli service

and also to the uh American uh to the central  intelligence agency. Sometimes by going public

you achieve you you you give uh uh undue attention  to what the terrorist wants to call attention to.

But if if you want me to say that if we have  specific in information that a specific flight

was going to be specifically targeted and  that information had any credibility to it,

then I think widespread notices should be given  and people should well know uh that they were

putting their lives at risk. If you count them  out, there had been at least eight warnings to

the Western intelligence authorities, whether  they were British, American or German. What did

they need? a signed confession and a postcard. I  remember that Flora had been told that she'd be

unlikely to get her seat on that flight cuz it was  so near Christmas. The plane would be full. Now,

the plane was nothing like full and Flora bought a  ticket just a couple of days before she flew. Now,

if that came about because the others who  would have filled the plane had been warned,

what does that say about the system? It says that  the warning was widely known, that a lot of people

had heard it, a lot of people acted on it, and  it's only the mugs who weren't on the inside of

this system that's supposed to protect innocent  people who actually climbed on board that plane.

She got on that plane really as a lamb to the  slaughter. That she walked up into that aircraft,

believing as as anyone should might that she  was going to be safely transported to America.

No mob. Others might die, but Noise must live.  There were more than warnings. In No Frankfurt,

before the destruction of Panam 103, a bomb-making  terrorist cell associated with the Syrianbacked

terrorists Ahmed Jabbril had been discovered.  The good burgers cross over the canal. The motorb

barge putters through oil splotches past the  gantry cranes. Here only the water is bad. The

phone booth still there at the end of the street.  Is there somebody in it? Has someone been warned?

Has someone been told to run away? One terrorist  cell, two terrorist cells, three terrorist cells.

How long before? How long after? On the 8th of  December 1988, the anniversary of the Enifada,

units of the Sireet Galani, the Galani Brigade,  the SAS of the Israeli Defense Forces raided

a PFLPG base in southern Lebanon at a place  called Al-Numeir. It was an extensive base,

miles of underground tunnels, underground bunkers,  one of which was Akmmed Jabriel's headquarters in

southern Lebanon. The group you referred to was a  clandestine cell of the PFLPGC, the Akmed Jabriel

group, uh that had been sent to Germany to set up  a an operation, several operations, as a matter of

fact, directed against both the Americans and and  other Western targets. Uh that group had been set

up in the aftermath of the uh American shootown of  the Iranian Airbus in July 1988. Bodies float in

the Persian Gulf. Iranians on a flight to Mecca,  shot out of their Airbus by an American warship.

Shore

cream.

That's good.

after the um uh downing of the Iranian aircraft  by the Vincent. Um everybody expected a revenge.

The Iranian had to religiously avenge what  have happened. It was clear that they will

teach the Americans um a lesson that they can  do and duplicate what the Americans have done

to them. It was only a question of time where an  American airline, a courier, it doesn't have to be

Panama and specifically Panam would be downed in  in retaliation. Revenge uh just creates additional

problems, doesn't it? I mean, after all, this  incident wouldn't have happened if Iran wasn't

and hadn't been in the process now for a long time  of attacking US and other shipping in the Gulf.

We've put all the uh all the ingredients into  into into perspective and we we realize that it

has to be a terrorist network that has experience  in that matter. Iran would never do it directly.

they would pay $10 million to a terrorist  network that knew how to go about it and

the contract was out. It was known at the time  that there is a contract for $10 million to down

an American airline. The Germans received a  very specific warning that Ahmed Jabriel's

right-hand man Hussein Alamone and a known bomb  maker Marwan Kissat were heading for Germany.

Following these contacts between uh Gabriel and  the Iranians, a clandestine PFLPGC cell was set up

in noise Germany and their master bomb maker, one  who had developed a lot of improvised explosive

devices for Gabriel in the past was also sent to  Germany to work on on assembling such devices.

One of the targets uh investigators determined  in the aftermath of that group's uh arrest

uh was going to be an American aircraft. The BKA,  the German Criminal Police mounted a surveillance

operation in Frankfurt and in October 1988,  Operation Autumn Leaves arrested 17 people.

They found massive amounts of weaponry,  explosives, timing devices, and most significantly

in the car that was being driven by Dal Kimone,  in which Great was a passenger, a Toshiba bombbe

radio cassette recorder with a primed bomb  inside it, designed to blow up aircraft.

service

offici for

Marwin Cryat and Hafisto Kmeni on October 26th,  198 1988 after a shopping spree buying electronic

components. The buying binge filmed by German  secret police are in this phone booth on Hafen

Strasa where they are arrested. Earlier the BKA  had been listening to the international line as

Ciss from another phone had told Damascus, "I have  made some changes in the medicine. It is better

and stronger." When taken to BKA headquarters,  Cryat insists he'd be allowed to make a phone

call. He does. He is released soon afterwards  and flies to Jordan. I had spoken to a reporter,

a German reporter who refuses to go on camera  uh but who is very close to uh uh federal uh

uh federal uh intelligence sources here in  Germany who assured me that uh Ciss was uh an

agent of the Jordanian in service and an asset of  the central intelligence agency. If you take Chris

for example, who um was a bomb maker who served  Gabriel and other terrorist networks for years, he

was also reporting for years his activities to um  Israel, Jordan, some other countries, intelligence

department. the Germans did not believe that they  had sufficient evidence directly linking him at

the time. Uh so that was an internal judicial  decision within the the German government. Um he

obviously uh continued to be a suspect for us and  for the uh British authorities as well as for the

German authorities, the BKA. I personally spoke to  the president of the BKA, Dr. Bogga and he assured

me uh that they were going to continue an allout  effort to identify everyone involved with this

uh Gabriel group inside of Germany. There are  times that to keep an agent who've been groomed

uh for so many years and so much effort has  been put and even if he brings you the type of

information that clearly indicates that there's a  bomb going to go on board or there's a bomb going

to be go off some in in in a public place you  must sometime let it go. pressure had come from uh

uh bond from the US embassy in bond to release  criss. Akmed Jabriel is reported to have said

that the uh the parametric detonator bombs were to  be used on attacks on Israeli bases at the top of

mountains. I don't know of any Israeli bases over  10,000 ft. And the triggers were all programmed to

become active at over 10,000 feet of altitude. So  they could only have been meant to attack planes.

This device can be used in a number of different  ways. True. It is used to make explosions in high

places. But it is possible to put this device in  a car at sea level. And if this car is driven to

the top of a mountain, an explosion will take  place. And this mechanism is not only related

to airplanes. Experts are well aware of the fact  that this device could be used for many purposes.

In April 1989, 4 months after the destruction of  Panam Clipper made of the seas, 6 months after the

October arrests of Cryat and Dalamani, the German  police raid 16 is Strasa in Mo Hassan Abbasis.

That raid will lead to the discovery of three  other Cryat manufactured bombs concealed in

electronic devices in cold storage at a veggie  stand owned by Abassi. A fourth bomb is never

found and there are rumors of a fifth. These  bombs are so sophisticated the top German bomb

expert is killed trying to disarm one. The German  government will never request the extradition of

Marwin Cryat. The Scottish police will never be  allowed to talk to Cryat. Nor will the Scottish

police ever be told the details of what Cryat  told the FBI. Supervisory Agent Tom Thurman,

Special Agent Edward Marshman when the FBI  talked to him on November 12th and 13th, 1989.

A journalist secretly interviews the bomb maker.  to him. Cries confirms that he had made airplane

bombs for Jabril had been sent to Germany on a  revenge mission and that he was a secret agent.

So, as the aircraft that was blown apart  is put back together, rivets inspected,

how jumbo jet banks demonstrated by a  toy model, terrorists and bombs have

already been found. Terrorists have  been set free. A bomb has vanished.

The finger points somewhere, Syria and  Iran. That somewhere soon becomes nowhere.

March 1989, Paul Channon, the British Minister  of Transport in a London club, tells five

journalists that the Panama case has been solved.  Arrests are imminent. Banner headlines in the

tabloids. The next day, named as the source,  the minister denies he ever talked. and soon

afterwards resigns. Then American columnist Jack  Anderson reports in his column on a conversation

between Margaret Thatcher and George Bush. Who  should they blame? I read the Anderson column.

I find it a little hard to believe that two heads  of state would make a unilateral decision such as

he reports exonerating governments who are  uh documented state sponsors of terrorism of

having anything to do with the PANM 103 event  especially given the intelligence information

some of which I know has been corroborated which  clearly links the bombing to them. One Sunday,

David Leopard, Sunday Times ace investigator,  even announces he and the Times have solved the

case. A story that changes when Mr. Leopard  writes a locker book in the middle of 1989,

some six or seven months after um Pan 103  blew up when Secretary of State Baker was in

Damascus that Baker had a meeting with the Syrian  foreign minister and that meeting Baker said,

"What are you doing about the GLC group?" And  the foreign minister didn't quite understand.

He's driven and said, "Who are you talking  about?" He said, "The Jabrel group." He said,

"Well, what what about them?" He said, "They're  responsible for Lockerby. What are you doing

about them?" He said, "How do you know they're  responsible?" He said, "We have the evidence,

and the evidence is irrefutable." Now, that was 7  months after 270 people were murdered in Scotland.

I want to know why that irrefutable evidence has  never been made public. I also want to know how

it's now changed dramatically to suddenly be put  at Tripoli's door rather than Damascus's door.

The sea and a city trying to get to sleep. Beirut.  No, there are not enough ruins. Tripoli. From the

halls of Monte Zuma to the shores of Tripoli.  Every fleet marine knows the words to the Marine

hymn. Oliver North, Lieutenant Colonel,  US Marine Corps. his commander-in-chief,

the Honorable Ronald Reagan, always and  still sleeping the sleep of the just,

as he had in cabinet meetings had his three  presidential obsessions, hostages, Contras,

and Gaddafi. Oi worked with Vince, Vincent  Canestaro, on a program that was meant to

destroy the Gaddafi regime. Vincent Canestra will  later head the CIA's investigation into Locker.

Bob Woodward in the front pages of the Washington  Post using top secret documents leaked to him

from the National Security Council wrote about  the program. Deception and disinformation. Mr.

Canestro and myself were the coordinators of Libya  policy within the NSC and did have a direct role

in um coordinating the papers written by state  with input from the CIA and the department of

defense and other agencies that all had a role.  I developed the policy towards Libya. In fact,

I wrote the draft paper that was later adopted  by the president. planted stories, fabricated

stories, stories that were meant to spin the  world around. Crazy Gaddafi, flaky Gaddafi, killer

Gaddafi. The climax of the Vincent Ali show was  to be kept very, very quiet. It does have a name.

I worked next to Ollie for about two  years and uh he was a man uh that

uh would uh do anything to achieve the objective  he was working on. First he considered it the most

important thing in the world and secondly he  would use any means whether that meant lying

uh even to his friends manipulating people uh he  would do anything to achieve the goal. There was

intelligence information which could not be  uh absolutely confirmed uh that Gaddafi was

indeed interested in killing President Reagan.  Um it is true that since then people have argued

that this was a fabrication uh by CIA Director  Casey. And of course with Casey dead uh no one

can know for sure uh what was Casey's agenda and  whether indeed this information was fabricated.

Oliver North who was one of the principal  proponents of the bombing of Tripoli in 1986 and

as we understand now uh did manipulate the press  talked quite freely with a lot of uh uh media

people and uh had no compunctions about providing  false information. Um it is certain that Gaddafi

sent people who worked for him Libyans and others  into the United States to kill Libyan dissident.

There's no question about that. Whether  some people may have twisted information

that dealt with those individuals into stories  alleging a conspiracy against President Reagan

uh may be true or may not be true. The airplanes  gather in silence even if the afterburners are at

full thrust as they always have been during  every long war that waxes hot and cold.

The affable ally, the lady, never keeps  the gentleman waiting for long. The bombs

and planes are American. The British provide  only the pavement. That way, these two very

special partners can again skirt the rest of  Europe. Lady and gentlemen, waiting. Pilot,

fuse, and bomb. All waiting. If the wait is  too long, a pretext can always be created.

In 1986, label disco in Berlin bombed. Libya  is like magnetic north. The finger always

points there. After the rubble settles in Berlin,  Tripoli, and Benghazi, the evidence implicating

Libya goes up in smoke. We were able uh through uh  technical intelligence means in almost real time

to intercept communications between the Libyan's  People's Bureau, Libyan People's Bureau in Germany

and the intelligence headquarters in Tripoli, uh  which stated very clearly that a terrorist act had

just been perpetrated against an American target  as had been directed And as far as the United

States government was concerned, this was ample  proof and justification for the retaliation which

ensued. My fellow Americans, at 7:00 this evening,  Eastern time, air and naval forces of the United

States launched a series of strikes against the  headquarters, terrorist facilities, and military

assets that support Muama Gaddafi's subversive  activities. The attacks were concentrated and

carefully targeted to minimize casualties among  the Libyan people with whom we have no quarant

about 5,000 of their nation now. So we  have the right to kill them right now.

Perhaps they wanted to bond and do to kill  just the citizen, not military, not military

uh camps. I saw the effects of that bombing  firsthand and I talked to some of the relatives

of people that had died. I talked to some of the  people that had been injured. They were ordinary

Libyan people. Um I went walked around the ruins  of the French embassy, the German embassy. They

were very um Catholic with their bombing the  Americans. Um if it was standing, they hit him.

The strikes that were conducted against uh  the Aziza barracks uh were targeted on the

Aziza barracks. And at no time uh am I aware  of any uh directive uh or action that was taken

directly by the United States that could  be described as an assassination attempt.

I know that some have accused uh the Reagan  administration and indeed some journalists have

accused me personally of trying to uh arrange for  the assassination of Gaddafi. Those accusations

are false and without merit. The only building  they hit inside the Azi barracks where Gaddafi

was, which is a huge area. I mean, you're talking  something like the size of St. James's Park.

only one building was it was a two-story building  which was Gaddafi's private residence. There's

no doubt in my mind it was a contract. It  was a a target to hit one and kill one man.

At no time did any document call for action  that could be uh defined as an assassination

attempt against the life of Colonel Gaddafi.  Not that many people in the United States

would have been unhappy to see Colonel Gaddafi  leave the scene, but at no time did our policy

uh direct that that be a tactic or strategy  that we sought to implement. I established uh

that Reagan, who went on um American TV at um  7:00 in the evening, Eastern Standard Time to

explain the attack that had just occurred at 2:00  in the morning over Libya, had to have his autoc

changed because initially uh it was justifying  the killing of Gaddafi. And of course, that

hadn't happened. So that had to be wiped off the  auto. A cluster bomb casing. The stencled warranty

where to return if defective in manufactureer  bomblelets. The wing wheel of an F11. The pile

of helmets left behind as if the whooping pilots  had thrown them off after a wild bucking ride.

The only thing missing because not made of metal,  the 15-month-old girl that died in the ruins.

Mumar Gaddafi's adopted daughter. I have no  illusion that tonight's action will ring down

the curtain on Gaddafi's reign of terror. But  this mission, violent though it was, can bring

closer a safer and more secure world for decent  men and women. We will persevere. The policy

basically was to confront the Libyans. And it did  lead to military confrontation with the Libyans.

What is that famous uh saying about uh putting the  fox in charge of the chicken coupe? Uh you know,

for Vincent Kenno uh to uh uh be put in charge  of investigating lockabe uh would be funny if

it weren't an obscenity. Vince was uh was  quite aware of what was going on in Syria.

who was quite aware of the Iranian dimension  and the Iraqi dimension and their role in state

sponsored terrorism. Uh what emerged in US policy  was the tendency to be able to most directly deal

with Libya because of Libya's geographic proximity  to Europe and the United States as opposed to

uh Iraq, Iran or Syria was much more difficult  uh to deal with the other countries. Canistero

is not interested in investigating Lockabe. Uh I  I believe Canister was put in charge to make sure

that the Lockabe case goes in a specific direction  because he wasn't put in charge immediately. as

long as uh there was a you as long as long as  at the beginning they were willing to blame

uh Syria and Iran uh canister had nothing to  do with Lakabe. As soon as it shifted to Libya,

then they brought in of course uh the Libyan dirty  tricks expert uh to oversee the investigation.

the Syrian support for terrorism was much more  uh circumspect. Syrians were much more capable of

concealing their direct role. The Iraqis had been  taken off the list of countries that supported

terrorism at the direction of CIA director Casey.  um in early uh 1982 in order to facilitate the US

tilt towards Iraq. The Iranians because of their  geographic proximity while clearly an acknowledged

sponsor of terrorism who are very active uh  particularly in Lebanon uh but uh elsewhere

uh around the world were also hard for the  United States to reach. I think the Scottish

police did an outstanding job. Uh some of it has  been documented. I think the FBI in particular,

uh, their explosives experts and their forensics  experts also did an outstanding job. I think, uh,

on both sides of the Atlantic, it was probably the  largest criminal investigation in the history of

both countries. uh the crime scene work that was  done not only in the the small town of Lockerby

but throughout almost all of southern Scotland  and and much of northern England. uh the very

minute detail of uh uh collecting all the bits and  pieces of evidence u the the bringing together of

military and civilian and law enforcement and and  foreign agencies as well I think was a remarkable

accomplishment on the part of the Scottish  police and the English authorities that were

backing them up Scotland Yard and their military  and others approximately 10,000 items of baggage

and other artifact facts have been recovered in  the widespread searches extending from Locker Bay

to the Kilder Forest in North Umbrea. These  articles are currently being evaluated for

evidential purposes. Detective officers forming  part of this investigation are involved in joint

inquiries with their respective colleagues in  West Germany and the United States of America.

All of the major developments in the case were  provided by the criminal investigators. Uh the

principal evidence that led to an identification  of a foreign role in an act of terrorism was

uh a forensic evidence recovered by the Scots  police at Lockabe themselves. investigators

uh and towns people on their hands and  knees crawling along the countryside

picking up minute bits of debris  and one of those bits of debris

uh turned out to be a microchip which was analyzed  forensically then led to the Libyan connection.

in the cold. God sometimes speaks to  detectives in mysterious ways. After 2 years,

sometime in those two years, after two  Scottish winters, surviving wind, mist,

and snow in the 850 square miles and  forest land where 150 m headwinds had

scattered wreckage. A miracle, a clue  found, they say, near the Kildair pine

forest where it is as dark as it must have  been before time began with a first big bang.

There were some areas which were very densely  forest um which we couldn't penetrate and uh

that area was ignored. You then get into the  um areas of woodland that have been thinned

uh where debris had both remained in the trees  and dropped through to the forest floor that was

cleared wherever we could by gaining access. There  was nothing cleared out of the the high trees. The

criteria for for finding things with burn marks  and scorch marks on was to keep those items

uh separate and hand them in as a separate item at  the end of the day. so they could be specifically

identified and checked out in priority to other  debris that would be sorted out at a later date.

And we did in fact find one item about the size of  a postcard that was a piece of material with the

evidence of burn marks in a hole right through it.  We were really um told to bring whatever we could

back which could um get out easily. So anything  that was up in the high canopy was left. Um the

remainder was cleared on the Scottish moors. The  mist comes in near the ground, but in the pine

woods where the tiny bit of microchip rested  until found, even the mist is invisible. Tom

and I were associates in the explosive unit.  We worked together in that unit and uh uh he

was assigned the case as the case agent uh for  the FBI, the forensic examiner, if you will.

And it was Tom's responsibility to uh to  organize and collect all of this evidence,

analyze it as well as the people from Rardy uh the  British uh side of the forensic uh investigation

and to coordinate the results of their analysis  and and examination to identify these components,

reconstruct the bomb, and provide these leads that  were so essential. Intrepid Tom Thurman of the FBI

had in 1989 interviewed noise bomb maker Cryat,  never sharing what he was told with the Scottish

police. This time before he could act, he had to  be helped by two English counterparts, forensic

experts from Radi. The first to see the importance  of the extraordinarily eventful forensic find.

one, the curious doctor, Alan Faraday, who has  had one terrorist case he investigated thrown

out on appeal with others under legal scrutiny.  Perhaps one of the most surprising things about

Alan Faraday as a an expert witness is that he  has no formal academic qualifications whatsoever.

The only qualification he has is a a technician's  qualification, I suppose you'd call it, a higher

national certificate in physics and electronics,  and that's about 30 years out of date. So, no,

he he's not a doctor. And uh indeed, I even go so  far as to say he's not a scientist in the accepted

sense. Well, the first time I I uh encountered  him giving evidence was in the trial of uh Daniel

McNammy, uh an Irish person who was in the old  Bailey. He was up on bomb making charges. I was

because of some previous court experience, I was  asked to come along and to to watch proceedings.

Uh I was from the public gallery and uh I watched  Faraday and uh I gradually became aware that

he was given the evidence a certain emphasis  that really wasn't justified that technically

couldn't be justified. Thomas Hayes, the second  English forensic expert, an actual real chemist,

has his own terrorist associations. The Maguire 7  associated with Jerry Condan convicted of needing

TNT in their bathroom in part because of Hayes  scientific evidence. The Maguires spent 63 years

in prison. The evidence was entirely forensic in  nature. There was no other evidence at all. They

made no confessions. In fact, they consistently  denied any involvement in any terrorist activity

or handling any such material. Dr. Hayes had  carried out a test on gloves belonging to Mrs.

Maguire on a second occasion and had detected the  presence of nitroglycerin on that test. So he was

not actually a primary witness. He was a secondary  witness as to fact. But his role during the course

of the trial uh as a chemist and a qualified  chemist whereas the others who were giving

evidence had no formal qualifications but had  worked in the field of explosives detection for

many years. uh his role was to reinforce what was  being said and to provide the explanations that

the court needed in order to be able to comprehend  the nature of the prosecution case against these

people. Alan Faraday maintained wrongly in my  view that the electronics was intrinsically

sinister. For example, that a tiny little board  with an amplifier chip on it, I mean in itself

an utterly innocuous item. He would maintain that  it was specifically designed and constructed for

bomb- makingaking purposes. And the implication  being that the anyone who handled or anything

any involvement whatsoever to do with this tiny  little circuit board would have knowingly been

involved had to be knowingly involved in bomb  construction. They were all saying the same

thing. They were all saying that the test was  specific. They were all saying that there wasn't

enough sample to run a second test. They were all  saying that there was no other substance known to

them that could be confused with nitroglycerin.  And I frankly do not believe that all of them

could have been saying that if they hadn't put  their heads together to say it because all of

them were saying something that they knew and must  have known was a lie. The only logical explanation

for the pattern of conduct in not revealing all  of these things that should have been revealed,

including the tests that they had secretly carried  out in their laboratory in order to determine

their theories, which had in fact been supportive  of the defense case and not their own is that

they were engaged in a giant conspiracy which  resulted in these people being convicted. Well,

as I I haven't seen the locker be evidence, so I  can't comment on that directly. uh the involvement

of Alan Faraday that worries me. I particularly  my experience in the Gibralar case. One thing that

struck me then at the time very very strongly uh  the British government employs hundreds of people

extraordinarily wellqualified in the areas of  radio communication and electronics. Alan Faraday

is not qualified yet they use him. I mean, I have  to ask the question why. Essentially, on June 15th

of uh 1989, 1990, yeah, 1990, um was the day that  uh I made the identification and I knew at that

point what it meant. And because, if you will,  I'm I'm an investigator as well as a forensic

examiner. uh I knew where that would go that at  that point we had uh no conclusive proof of the

type of timing mechanism that was used in the  in the bombing of 103. When that identification

was made of the timer, I knew that we had it. The  forest find leads to Zurich, where money grows in

banks, where the hand that steals is not cut off,  just grows other hands. To this man, Edwin Bolier.

Uh timer

from

196.

Libyan intelligence provided Mibo with  an order. They provided the specification

and an order for the production  of a certain number of uh timers

uh that are used in uh explosive devices what  are called IEDs, improvised explosive devices.

design a magnification of that circuit board  which is here. You can see it's a very large

magnification has uh a partially obliterated  marking and through investigation we determined

that this actually is M E VO. Initially we  thought that it might be another number like

M580 and that was uh number of leads were sent  out to electronic manufacturers to see if they

had made this board and they said no that  that was not their identification. So uh the

last thing that we determined which was the  right thing actually that it's mebo. We had

uh some inkling that that's what it was  from the beginning, but we didn't want

to say okay that it's mebo to the exclusion of  anything else until we're absolutely certain.

for

the police.

The forensics determined that the  microchip found in the debris at Lockabe

uh came from one of those timers  produced by Mibo. Uh they were able

to trace it to the certain lot that Libyan  intelligence had purchased from them. for

FBI.

So the FBI were telling Mr. Borier they had three  men in Scotland in place constantly for 2 years

when every piece was found because how could they  have known beforehand what was important. Then

the Scottish police tell him that none of that  is true. They in fact found the smoking timer

themselves in a shirt from Malta. Two years after  his mountain rescue team had searched the Kildair

forest for two brief but terrible Christmas weeks,  that is how long the main search really went on,

Bobby was asked by the police to sign a statement  saying he had found things, including things he

could not even identify. Approximately two  years after the uh the searching finished,

I received a phone call from a policeman in  lock itself asking if he could come down to

my home and uh bring with him certain bags  uh containing some evidence that was of an

important nature and would I sign to say  that I'd picked those up or people in my

party had picked those up and I'd handed them  in. Um he brought with him three small bags

uh about the size of an A5 piece of paper. One  of which contained this uh item of cloth. One of

which contained a brown piece uh which looked  very much like a a piece of p of u suitcase

and the third item I have just no  idea what it was. Then the trail

blurs further. Other countries  in fact had the same time as

for

GHFs. Uh

uh there has been some speculation about timers  from that same series being provided to Stazzi.

Uh and it's true that they were but  they were on brown circuit boards.

The circuit board that was used in the  explosion of lockabe was a green production

uh model of the timer and that came from uh  Libyan intelligence. In the Stazzi files,

the name of Edwin Bolier, code name Reuben, Stazzi  agent, his control Yim Henchel, code name Wel,

meetings in Berlin safe houses, German girls in  the inter hotels. The Stazzaryi had discovered

Bolier was selling everything to everyone. The  timers only the Libyans were supposed to have

to the Stazzaryi and American C4 explosives  and Italian remote radiocontrol detonators.

2 million Deutsch marks one Stazzy payment  for gear and selling directly to terrorists,

the Red Army faction, Palestinians, other Arabs  in both Germanies. The stars even conclude Bolier

must have been working for the CIA because he  seemed to be able to get very special American

equipment so easily for the Staryzi. Double,  triple, quadruple agent, a truly neutral Swiss

businessman. through good training and through  good diligence u and and through the tremendous

amount of of concentration and hard work and  effort that was put out by the search team

u that evidence was found. uh uh luck was made in  this case by by a very strong cooperative effort

among law enforcement and military uh services  in this case and u and that's what brought the

successful resolution to the identification  of the people involved in that bombing. Then

another twist in turn coat Zurika Bolier's story  after a visit by Americans on December 28th,

1988. He signed a document one week after Panama  103 was destroyed. A document in which Mr. Bolier

swears his timers were of a model only sold to  Libya. signed even before the use of a bomb had

been made public. Before the miraculous graveling  search, thousand Scots in lines on hands and knees

find the smoking fragment. Mr. Balier had sold  so much to so many he could be blackmailed. So in

that situation he signed. Now he says the document  can belong to whomever pays him $2 million cash.

After 3 years of one of the most complex and  exhaustive investigations in history, head of the

inquiry, Lord Fraser, named names. The two accused  are Abdul Basset, Ali Muhammad Al McGrai and Al

Amin Khalifa FEMA. That the investigation has come  to this conclusion is not a surprise. We are now

actively considering what actions to take. We have  no evidence uh to implicate another country uh in

this disaster. I understand the investigation  has revealed no evidence to support suggestion

of involvement by other countries. In the coming  days, the president will be consulting closely

with Prime Minister Major and other world leaders  to fashion together a cooperative international

response to this latest terrorist atrocity by  Gaddafi's government. Today marks a milestone

in the nearly three years of unresolved grief  and unrelenting persistence to find the truth.

Today, we call upon the political powers  of all civilized nations to send a strong

and unequivocal message to Libya and all  states that aid, abet, harbor, sponsor,

and support terrorist activities, that they will  no longer be tolerated in the world community.

Uh,

you

I know him. I I know he will never uh hurt a fly.  But it was a shock that it was put on him. They

put his name, you know. You can't believe it.  I don't really believe it that he done it, you

know. Not even all the Maltes that knew him never  believed that he did it. It was unbelievable. I

mean everybody u they had the same opinion in a  way they you know he's not such a person he's so

soft that they they give him a nickname the  egg you know that mean he's very very soft

the Roman fear theater in Sabarata,  Libya, parked and sandlasted in its

splendor when Africa provided the grain  for Rome and a Libyan. Septimus Seis

was Roman emperor 1500 years before  the birth of the American Republic.

Two Libyans cast without ever auditioning  have now become players in a new play with a

very old plot. White hats and black hats.  The play goes like this. Baset McGrabi,

terrorist one, a frequent traveler  in his work for Libyan Arab airlines,

always using his own passport, arrives  in Malta and using a false passport,

checks into the Holiday Inn, one of the only  two luxury hotels in Sylma not owned by Libya.

In the meantime, second terrorist Lamin  Fima is rigging a bomb in the Libyan Arab

Airlines office. Could it be this office or  perhaps this one? Using saxs he has stored

there amongst the Libyan Maltes and other  employees and of course Mr. Bolier's device.

when The great war fleet docked in Malta. The  warship tenders would unload sailors looking for

what every sailor seeks at the foot of the Sylma  street. Now shoppers look for other kinds of cheap

deals. What was more valuable than the suitcase  and the tracing of the suitcase were the clothes

in that suitcase. Uh there was some baby clothes.  There was an umbrella. There were there were

different items that were not really consistent  with having come from this one suitcase. You know,

uh, you figure a suitcase from a from a man  who who was owned by a man would would have

just men's clothes in there. Uh, here was a  suitcase that had several different items in

there from from babies to adults to to casual  items. Uh, it turned out that that apparently,

as I recall, that one of the items of clothing,  uh, not to be specific, uh, was, uh, was traced,

as a suitcase might have been. Bomb damaged  clothes made in Malta had been found in the

Panama 103 debris. So, Secret Agent McGrabi  must have scrambled up and down this shopping

street from shop to shop, finally buying  baby clothes, pants in different sizes,

an umbrella at Mary's house. Tony Gouchy and  Paul Gouchy, the brother owners. McGrai truly

incognito, not as lucky as Damni and Cryat in  Noise had not been filmed. So over two years,

Tony will make 18 separate statements. Paul  four to the FBI and Scottish police as they

try to get the brothers to identify the clothes  buyer, 50 years old, 6 feet, hefty, full hair,

had been there before. Had been there again, had  been there once. had seen him in a bar several

months later. The baby clothes had a sheep's  head. No, an entire lamb embroidered. I will sign,

though I do not read English. 20 years older than  the photoit. Similar, but not identical. Maybe,

perhaps like him, but not fully like  him, like the man in the Sunday Times.

Ramin Fimmer then steals Air Malta luggage tags  after duly noting the English word in his diary.

tags.

for

and then arranges for an unaccompanied bag full  of the medley of Maltese clothes and the bomb to

be put unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight.  The bag going through three airport security

systems traveling through a European winter with  unpredictable flight delays. The explosion capable

of occurring anywhere on Panama 103, in the  air, over land or sea, even in the airport.

Our play began as a tragedy. Has it now become a  comedy with two stooges, not three? If a device

had been infiltrated into the system at Malta, it  would have been necessary for that device to have

to have uh carry have been carried in an aircraft  on the sector from Malta to Frankfurt to have gone

through a handling process been carried on an  aircraft for the sector from Frankfurt to Heath

Row and then timed to detonate uh during the  final sector Heathrow to New York uh presumably

whilst the aircraft was over the ocean to avoid um  discovery uh forensic evidence. And one has to say

um are terrorists idiots? Uh don't terrorists  plan to have a reasonable degree of success of

doing it? We looked at something else and it's a  matter of public record uh of the bomb making uh

activities and the group that had been active  in Germany in noise at the time. There's all

the publicity the documentation of that. So we  had to consider do you think it's likely that

a terrorist group has uh managed to manufacture  a very sophisticated device in Germany? Are they

going to move it somewhere else and then send it  on its way back to Germany? I went to Frankfurt

airport 23rd of January 1989 to look for documents  in relation to the preparation of flight 103 from

Frankfurt to London in particularly the uh cargo  and baggage loading plane. who was responsible

for loading the plane and what the duties were.  But these documents were missing from the daily

file. The records at Frankfurt uh they were by  no means complete. Uh one was not able to get

hold of the detailed records. Particularly uh  that concerned me was there was no record as

to who unloaded that flight KM180 when it arrived  at Frankfurt. We don't know who the loaders were.

There was no record of the number of bags that  were actually unloaded from that flight. Uh there

were no records that I could find. If the original  documents had been taken by the authorities,

and by that I mean the police, then it would be  normal practice for a copy to be retained in the

Panama Farm. In 1993, Air Malta wins its liel  suit against Granada television. Granada in a

docu drama had claimed the bomb had been placed  in an unaccompanied bag on an Air Malta flight.

At Malta, the records of the handling of that  flight KM180 uh were made available for me to see.

There was no evidence of any unaccompanied bags.  All of the bags uh that were carried as passenger

baggage on that flight uh had been checked in by  a passenger who actually traveled on the flight.

When in October 1989, the FBI visited Frankport  airport, the agent sent back this TX to

Washington. No evidence of any bag transferred  from an Air Malta flight. The only evidence

showing a transfer bag, a computer printout used  to prepare this German police report. An airport

employee, Mrs. Era claims to have stored in a  locker a copy printed off the destroyed original

computer tape. The computer print out does not say  where the bag came from. They try to tie that bag

to KM180 from the worksheet which was maintained.  And as we found the worksheet is completely

unreliable. And in any case, even if you accept  that the worksheet was approximately right,

we have nobody that can account for or was  in charge of or can tell us who or how those

bags came from the actual aircraft KM180 to that  coding station. And for more than one kilometer

and while they were in there waiting, those bags  were under nobody's control or supervision. They

were not counted. We don't know how many should  be there. And it would have been possible to put

another bag in there along any of that route or  at any time. I've never seen any documentation

whatsoever produced by Panama or anybody else  to show there was any interline baggage from a

motor flight on the 21st of December 1988. What I  can tell you is that both the hea and McGrai are

members of the Libyan intelligence service.  They were undercover as employees of Libyan

Arab Airways. Uh but they are in actuality  members of the Libyan intelligence service.

New work.

And in this, as in every spy story, especially  in Malta, proverbial land of the double cross,

there is a secret service defector,  a Mr. Jika were lots of cash,

girls and whiskey. The only thing I can tell you  about this particular person is he was a former

member of the Libyan intelligence service  who has defected to the United States. Uh

and he is now in the witness protection  program of the Department of Justice.

So he would be used in a trial of Fahheima  and McGrai were the Libyan government ever

to release these two for trial either in  the United Kingdom or in the United States.

He used to come here with the Libyan um  Arab Airlines uh crew or or the guests that

uh their passengers that they have to stay  night over here and the way of dealing with

us wasn't correct to the point once I remember I  had to report him to his uh office here the the

representative of the Libyan Arab Airlines. He  used to ask a lot of money here, you know. Um he

used to bring sometimes the crew of uh the Libbyan  Arab lines here which uh this crew they have some

allowance which uh we have the orders to issue  this allowance to them. Well, as a representative,

we he had the authorized authorized signature  for to give them the allowances, you know, and um

sometimes we used to hand it to him and the crew  wasn't there. There's uh no doubt. I mean, if he

doesn't give them to to the the staff, the crew,  then he he must have kept them. they asked him to

to return back to to Libya because his contract  finished or he's he's staying in Morta. Um so

after a few days he came here to the hotel and he  had a plaster in his hand you know so what's wrong

I mean he said oh I just felt from the stairs and  uh apparently he made this to to get an extension

another 3 or 4 months to stay here. the fact that  they have in the face of UN sanctions that are

fairly ownorous for them refused to release  either one of them for a trial in a western

court of law indicates that they have something  to be concerned about if they were to appear

free of any kind of pressure from the Libyan  government. So I don't think if they haven't

done it up to the present time they certainly  have no intentions of doing it in the future.

for

What do

you know? That's not fun.

Sit.

impossible.

popular.

I believe you.

What a fun.

Gadamas, 700 km from the Libyan coastal plane.  The place where we had lunch. The legend says

two camel drivers meeting and having  lunch. one to come back to where he

had left something. So the  place where they had lunch,

walled oasis city, rebel territory already in  Phoenician times when in 1911 the Italian army

invaded Libya as the Libyans were pushed  back after the death of Omar Muptar,

the Libyan leader hanged by the Italians in 1931.

It was to this rock, the citadel in the desert  near Gdamas, that the Libyan survivors withdrew

to emerge, to raid the Italians, to ambush the  French Foreign Legion. Then for 4 years during

World War II, the Italians and Germans, English,  French, and ANZACs, push each other back and forth

through the great Libyan desert. Since 1911,  1 million Libyan dead piling up. Never again.

There will be no surrender of sovereignty.

Again, a hand, a bag, and a  baggage tag. And now a boy.

family tell him we send you to Germany and  from Germany you can go to America to give

him the address where he's he come to Germany  in Germany stay here by some friend and him fix

for him what he fix in his back in the ta that's  what we seen is uh his ma behind what him done to

Lebanon, the Bakar, Balbeck, and on the ridge,

another Israeli air strike. The  people Israel is targeting, Hezbollah,

drugs and terrorism,

hostage country. I came to be involved  with the DEA. I was I got involved in

uh trafficking cannabis products and uh  uh eventually was arrested and uh struck

a secret plea agreement with the government uh  whereby they eventually decided to send me to

uh Lebanon not for cannabis products but to uh  basically bust the largest heroin producers on

the planet. They could not uh eradicate the drugs  in Lebanon. So they only could do two things.

That is to monitor what was being produced  and how it was being shipped out. And two,

use DEA informants from Lebanon in drug  sting operations back in the United States

uh to set up drug buys and catch uh drug buyers  in the US. And that was a big part of what they

were doing. Uh the DEA informants would fly  in to Los Angeles, for example, or Detroit,

and they would be loaned out to the local DEA  office and used in a drug sting operation. Many

times they would haul in heroin with them in a  controlled delivery. Sometimes they would take

in cash and act as a buyer. The scheme involved  uh infiltrating DEA agents from all of Western

Europe into uh a Lebanese uh network. uh the DEA  office in Cyprus was responsible for monitoring

drug activities in Lebanon. Uh they had to do it  from a distance because they were not allowed the

agents themselves were not allowed to set foot  in Lebanon. So they were relying on anything and

everything their informants were telling them. And  by that time, which was in the 80s, the mid 80s,

uh the people that were in the heroin business  were also involved in uh financing uh Syrian

terrorism. Lebanon is a is a conduit for a great  deal of drugs and the organizations that are

moving it through or at least supporting  the movement through are the violent

uh political organizations such as the Hezbala,  the Iranian revolutionary guards and now Hamas.

uh they are directly connected with much of the  drug trafficking through that area. The heroin

laboratories themselves were located in the Macau  Valley. Uh the major one was run by Jamil Hamia

who was a a target of our investigation and he  was in the process of producing over 100 kilos

on a single batch for part of a thousand kilo  shipment. and uh they would obtain the the opium

uh from Jerbaker in Turkey, transport it with  the Syrians into Lebanon and then process it. But

it was a method for financing u uh at the first  level uh internal military action in Lebanon and

at the second level as it turns out uh to finance  terrorist activities in Europe and abroad. It was

arranged by the DIA for me to go over and work  for the DEA in this narcotics operations group

u headed by Michael T. Hurley who was the country  out of those days and my main responsibility was

to gather intelligence in Lebanon related to opium  production uh and trafficking and and illegal

ports and and that kind of thing. I only knew  of Hurley's involvement as a name at that time

because he was a station chief in in in Cyprus,  but all the station chiefs in Frankfurt and in uh

Bon and in Amsterdam and in Paris all knew about  the operation. A control delivery is a delivery

where a courier carries a predetermined amount  of heroin through security checkpoints with the

knowledge and consent of the local law enforcement  people, for example, the Germans in Frankfurt.

uh the British Customs and Excise Service in  London to pass the heroin through on the way to

New York and then on to Detroit or Houston or Los  Angeles. The uh drug trafficking occurred um as

we understood at the time at least once or twice  a week a courier would um carry a suitcase a s a

brown samsonite suitcase full of drugs from Cyprus  to Frankfurt with an arrangement in Frankfurt with

a a baggage handler that the suitcase would  be switched. Uh he would come in and check

in with a a suitcase a a similar suitcase uh  full of clothing. It was go through it would

go through the security system. It would go down  the chute down to the uh basement and then the

um one of the um uh employees uh Panama employees  the uh baggage handler would switch a similar case

full of drug. It would go on board. It will arrive  in Kennedy uh or Detroit and then it would uh be

uh sold in the local market. Well, one of the  routes I was familiar with when and told firsthand

about was the route that went from uh Beirut  via Cyprus to Frankfurt to London to Detroit or

Houston or Los Angeles. It was supervised and  and surveiled by the German authorities. They

knew that it occurred. I assume that the British  government was aware that this has occurred. Uh so

there was a cooperation between three governments  to to monitor this activity. It's the German, uh,

the British, and the American government.  This 1986 Drug Enforcement Agency document,

a meeting between Marty Maguire, Frankfurt  resident, DEA agent, and Mike Hurley,

Cypress resident agent. Already all the key words,  the BAR, heroine, Syria, Cyprus, Frankfurt. While

this was going on, one has to remember that there  were several hostages that were kept in Lebanon

um of of of many nationalities and there  was a strong effort to release them by

negotiations which haven't worked out. At one  point the uh US government um entertained the

um military entertained an possibility of of  of releasing those hostages by force after the

uh CIA station was blown in Lebanon. uh there  was a uh mutual effort on the part of several

agencies to sort of pick up the pieces and at  that particular time DEA informants were also the

information they were coming out with was being  passed on uh to the CIA station in Cyprus. So

progressively DEA informants were being used as  assets for the CIA. So in essence DEA informant

was a cover for a CIA operation. The old American  embassy in Cyprus in the process of demolition.

The great eagle seal torn from the wall. Its  miles of communication cables ripped out.

Debris falling past Mike Hurley's ground  floor office as if even here a trail had to

be destroyed. DEA Chief Mike Hurley would  receive intelligence about the terrorist

drug networks. That would go to the CIA. The CIA  controlled the special action group operating out

of this apartment building in Vbardan, Germany.  Operational intelligence to a group in Beirut.

Matthew Ganon, CIA chief of station, and Army  Major Chuck McKe trying to locate and rescue

American hostages being taken in and out of  the Bakar. A lot of attempts have been made

to release those hostages by contacting known  figures in the terrorist work, drug dealers

and and known terrorist as Monzal Kasar, who is  related to the Syrian government by by marriage.

uh who lived in and and operated in both  Damascus and Europe and has experience in

um in uh trafficking not only weapons all over the  world but also drugs. Um they have assigned that

u mission to Monza Alcasar. He helped gathering  the drugs in the in the Becca Valley and helping

that the drugs going into into the United States.  uh he was an asset of the CIA. I only knew him as

Muhammad, Abu Muhammad. He was the person  that had to facilitate the the delivery of

um there was a brown substance that's a  precursor to heroin. They call it bass or

bass. I think it's bass. And that's what it's  coffee colored and it comes in like gny sacks.

and he's the person that I met who facilitated the  heroin across the Syrian border in the northern

uh the city of Ka in QAA in in northern Lebanon.  Monzer al Casar is probably the the most notorious

uh in the 80s anyway uh gun uh and arms  and uh and drug supplier uh in the Middle

East. Nothing went down in the Baka Valley  related to narcotics, for example, without

the explicit approval of Refot Assad and Monser  Al-Qas. Nothing happened in the Baka Valley,

not the hostages, not the opium trade, not the  heroin laboratories, not the cocaine processing

labs. None of that could have happened without  the express consent and involvement of Rifad Assad

and the Pink Panther Brigade and his partner  Monser Alcasar. And the Americans knew that

payments made to Monza al-Casar by Lieutenant  Colonel Oliver North the account numbers

and amounts.

As new recruits are sworn in for the ongoing war,

the guest of honor at the Hezbollah table  of dignitaries, Ahmed Jabril, Jabril,

who had airplane bombs in a terrorist cell  in Frankfurt in October 1988. When Gibbril

realized that that operation was was was going  on because he was participating in drug shipments

and raising money through drug monitoring. So it  was known the players on the ground were known.

He realized very simple that if he can put if  he can gain access to one of the suitcases,

those controlled monitor suitcases and put a bomb  into it, the bomb would be put on plane would be

supervised by by those who are supervising it,  including all the law enforcement agencies that

are making sure that nobody challenges us. The  suitcase, nobody opens it. It goes through the

security system and all he has to do is just put  it in that suitc. The rest is history. Foreham

Mch.

I met Mustafa in 1974. I went to his  home in uh Balbec, actually in Shroudy,

uh where the Joffrey clan lives. And  uh they have two homes, one in Shroudy,

one in Hermell in central Balbeck in  central Lebanon in the Bea Valley. And

uh I got to know a great deal about his family.  Uh this was in the pre-terrorist days really.

The Jafar family seat. The  bullet holes from Hezbollah.

The shrine inside to Khaled. Grandfather  Mustafa Jafar. Khaled was his favorite grandson.

Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.

How are you? I will do

This was a this was a control bag going through.  It wouldn't go through passport control. It

wouldn't go through customs. It would be it would  just be passed through. it would be either carried

through by the informant or by somebody who was  a part of the local uh police constabularary. I

received a telephone call from somebody I knew  in British customs advising me to or suggesting

that we look at the possibility uh to bag may have  been switched at Frankfurt airport by the Turkish

workers because of known drug operations being run  through Frankfurt airport. An HM customs officer

involved in the investigation of narcotics. um had  left a message for me and I subsequently contacted

him and uh uh I met with him and he advised me  that uh he'd been in Frankfurt at a meeting of

uh drug enforcement agencies from Germany, America  and Britain and that uh it was well known and

discussed at that meeting that Panama were as  an airline was being used as a drug conduit.

To my knowledge, Panama had not been informed  of any controlled drug shipments. And during my

service with Panama at Heithro, I was not notified  of any drug shipments. And it would have been a

requirement under the uh FAA regulations and  the DOT regulations for us to be notified if

some outside agency was putting baggage onto  our aircraft. I certainly didn't know and I I

know nobody else in the Pan-American organization  that I've been in contact that was aware of it.

Although I've not handled any drug shipments, I  would assume that it would be normal procedures or

practice to bypass the passenger searching stage  and take the bag through other routes and take

direct to the aircraft thereby avoiding possible  searches to prevent unauthorized people knowing

what was being shipped. I was aware of disco some  information with regards the possibility that

uh passengers on board the 103 uh could have  been involved in the uh illegal movement of

narcotics. Um and some names were mentioned to me  particularly one passenger by the name of Jafar.

When I was working in Cyprus in 1988 at DEA, we  were working in a penthouse apartment on top of a

building down the road from the American embassy.  Uh we answered the phone, uri Trading Company,

which was a cutout proprietary company used by the  CIA and the DEA uh for various incundary purposes.

One was uh uh these drug informants would come  in on the sunny boat from Juny. uh the criate

police narcotics people would bring them up to  the apartment. They would all sit around in the

living room and drinking coffee and uh chatting  away while I was over at my computer working away

and then they would be called up one by one on  the telephone to go over and meet with Hurley at

the American embassy. And one of the people that  I observed there was this kid that we used to call

that was referred to as Nazi uh Nazi Jafar. Well,  I knew from the conversations around me in ' 88

that he was involved in in control deliveries  and there's no doubt in my mind about that at

all. Uh so when I found out he was on 103 and he  was killed and that there was a control delivery

going through at the time and the fact that I  knew the security problems that the DEA had and

the relationships that they were having with some  people in Lebanon that we had already raised as an

issue as far as security is concerned. It was very  simple for me to put one and one together and get

the big two uh that the DEA's operation had a role  in all of this. In 1990, before a congressional

committee, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Steven  Green, acting administrator, will deny under oath

that there were any controlled drug deliveries  through Frankfurt Airport in 1988. But in Virginia

court documents, deliveries are documented. A DEA  agent has testified being at Frankfurt airport in

1989. The drug traffic was so heavy by then that  there was a full-time DEA liaison agent Thomas

Sloveni at the airport. One convicted Lebanese  Bakar dealer had even tried to contact a Panama

pilot. But Frankfurt had been used as a base  for covert drug and CIA operations long before.

In 1984, I was undercover and uh my base of  operations was uh uh in Wsburg at the headquarters

of the third infantry division and uh I was  contacted by fellow who worked for Oliver North.

I was uh asked uh to uh develop an operation  laying a trail which would would lead back to

Libya and make it look as though a Libyan effort  was behind this to bring drugs into the United

States. The way to do this is to make it look as  though the material had been shipped from Europe

to Libya and then from Libya to the United States.  I was buying a precursor for the manufacturer of

speed and methylbenzyl ketone which has the same  chemical formula as camic acid which is something

harmless that they put in the toothpaste as  flavoring. I'd buy that and the labels would

be switched and the synamic acid would be shipped  to Libya. methyl benzyl ketone be shipped into the

United States to the mafia who were paying for it  in advance. My instructions were to use Frankfurt

since uh that was where all the contacts were. I  was told to play the role of Muhammad El Huama who

was a low-level operative in Libyan service and  if a purchase order or something were needed I had

been provided from headquarters with stationery.  I have a sample of the stationery that was used.

This is the bill of lighting. Libyan  Airlines was to be used. And this

is the bill of lighting for Libyan Airlines  showing that this material is going to Libya.

And I received, for instance, the funds to  do this through the military banking system

for this one in Wittsburg. Here's a  voucher for the receipt of 317,100

uh German marks. The street value of the  drugs that I imported was about $350 million.

Khaled Jafar arrives in Germany with the two  killers of heroine given to him by Hezbollah

captain Muhammad Jafar. A controlled delivery.  No police or customs inspection. The policeman

who waits for Khaled as he arrives in Germany will  assist him through Frankfurt airport security when

he boards flight 103 on December 21st. Jafar  takes a taxi to meet some of the people whose

names have been given to him by Hezbollah.  Among them, Fisel Jalus and Adnan Ununice.

Jafar was was u clearly working as  a courier for the DA for the entity

that has employed him to courier uh the drugs  controlled substances to the United States.

He was also under strict surveillance by  Mossad uh and by by many other governments

uh who were interested to know what is going  on uh in that area and who saw in advance

uh way way in advance that this could create a  major problem in the future. At the beginning

of July 1989, our sales director in Oslo, Mrs.  Barrett Sland received some documentation and

um information from the local police regarding  a possible meeting or a definite meeting by

person called Goldberg and a man called Jaffar  somewhere in Scandinavia and the Mr. Goldberg

had supplied details from his personal  notebook and some handwritten notes which

had been forwarded to the local police and then  to us in London. On receipt of the information,

we notified the American embassy, Mr. to Bob  Mahoney and at his request on the 7th of July

1989 the documents were forwarded to him at the  US embassy in London at which point we were told

or advised that he would look into the matter.  I've never had any telephone conversation or

any written information from the US embassy  advising us the outcome of their inquiries.

In October 1988, the German federal police had  watched a white Volvo with Swedish plates load

up in front of 16 Isustrasa in Noise. Bomb  maker Kissat had stayed there. A raid on

Abasi's apartment at that address in April 1989  after Panama 103 had been blown out of the sky

had led to the discovery of three Cryat bombs in  electronic devices with a fourth and possibly a

fifth airplane bomb missing. Two men are driven  in the Volvo to Opsala, Sweden. the route by

car ferry because of the laxa border controls. In  December, before he boards Panam 103 in Frankfurt,

Khaled Jafar is driven to Sweden by Fisel Jaloo,  stopping at this address in Elmshorn near Hamburg.

Jafar takes the Keel Gottenberg ferry. One of  the addresses in Goldberg's notes, 3A Storegate

entrances onto two separate streets, a tramway,

the highway nearby, the present occupant,  Muhammad Berbuk. Hello. Hello. Hello.

What do you mean?

Sometimes I used to go back.

Hotel

Muhammad

for dash.

Hey,

come on.

Jafar will go to Stockholm according to Mr.  Goldberg on the 1710 train on December 19th.

Mr. Goldberg after a single 30th January 1989  meeting with the Panama sales agent in Oslo

leaves his precise notes behind and vanishes.  Goldberg Such a common Jewish name is in fact

an Israeli intelligence operative still on active  duty today. Khaled tells his family in the Bakar

that he had met this man Abu Talab during his  trip to Sweden. Talb had been arrested in Upsala

in October 1988 at the same time the Jabril  group arrests had been made in noise Germany.

Talb also was initially released, then  rearrested after Lockabe accused of terrorism,

convicted on the flimsiest evidence, and  is now serving time in Kumla prison in

Sweden. In October 1988, Abu Talab had visited  Cyprus and Malta. He returned from Malta with

a hodgepodge of Maltese clothes. At one  point, the multi-shopkeeper Tony Gouchi,

so relentlessly questioned by the FBI and  Scottish police shown Abu Tab's photograph,

says Abu Tab could be the clothes buyer. But  Tony is never one to make definitive statements.

But Khaled Jafar does tell his family  in the Bakar that he had been given

Maltese clothes by Abu Tal, including a  baby grow, a fragment of a baby grove,

one of the items of clothing the Scottish  police and FBI inquire about in Malta.

forchech.

Khaled's ticket to Detroit one way will  be bought for him at Ali Ricepro in Iselon

Germany. Mr. Jadala, owner of Ali's Travel,  confirmed a Mr. Ununas bought the ticket.

Mr. Jadala was told not to reveal the name.  A second call. The wife answering this time.

The official London Metropolitan Police notes on  Khaled Jafar's ticket. Form of payment not known.

Student ticket oneway. Originating office,  Panama, Hamburg. History of booking, none.

The copy for the actual ticket held for all  Panama passengers has in Jafar's case disappeared.

Follow

me.

Mhm.

Uhhuh.

foreign.

Uh,

CIA

The European knight covering all Jalus still in  Berlin. Did he drive Jafar to Sweden? Verbuk,

did he meet Jafar? Ununice, did he buy the  ticket? Will they ever be asked what they know?

The day is

Major Chuck McKe, head of the hostage rescue  team, takes the Sunnyboat. The Juno ferry from

Lebanon to Cyprus. Matthew Ganon, Beirroot CIA  station chief, travels separately, arriving on a

helicopter with the US ambassador to Lebanon, John  McCarthy. The ambassador, like Ganon, is booked

on Panama 103, December 21st. The diplomat,  however, decides not to travel into New York.

McKe has never contacted his mother  or anybody while he was on missions

abroad. Never ever kn anybody knew where  they were. In that single occasion upon

his return or just before he returned to the  United States, he contacted his mother and he

um indirectly have have related to her  that he's on his way back. It's unusual

that he's in distress. McKe's behavior before  returning to the United States is strange. He

is initially booked on Panama 103 December  22nd, changing to Panam 103 December 21st.

His communications man from Beirut through  a secure link had sent the travel details to

McKe's operational control. This same member  of McKe's special forces unit has confirmed

that McKe hated drugs and had fired his Beirut  driver before leaving Lebanon when he'd caught

him with drugs. After McKe's death, there are  stories that members of the hostage rescue team,

among them, McKe, had been very upset when  they discovered that the agents they were

asked to work with were drug dealers. There  are suggestions that McKe was on his way

home to expose the drugs for intelligence  operation. The drug enforcement agency are

watching McKe. Mike Hurley separately tlexes  McKe's final travel arrangements to the CIA

Directorate of Operations in Washington,  to MI6, the British Secret Service,

and to SPAG, the CIA special action group  in Germany in overall control of the drugs

intelligence operation. Every spook there is will  know that McKe is flying back on December 21st.

Yeah. You there? Yeah. How are you? I'm doing  pretty good. Where are you calling from? Well,

I'm in uh I'm in responding. Uh I just got  into Frankfurt to the airport and I'm going

to just chill out here for the night. Are  you alone? Well, of course I'm alone. You

don't think I'd be asking you questions with  somebody around? Hold on. Wait a minute. Yeah.

Hello. Yeah. Okay. The duty officer just came in.  Yeah. All right. Now, tell me where you worked.

Okay. What's that? I just turned it off. It was  being taped. What the [ __ ] do you want to know

this for, man? You mean a special action group  in Wisconsin? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, you know,

you're retired from there now, but you're still  doing what? Consulting work, right? Sure. All

right. Now, look, does the name Khali Jafar mean  anything to you? Yeah. Oh, who who is that? He's

the local guy, man. You know who he is. Who what  do you mean local guy? Come on. What does he have

to do with Mr. Lockerby man? Okay, that's what I  now when he came to Germany in 88 who met him at

who met him at the plane? You mean that prick love  joy dead? No [ __ ] Is uh you know this is he part

of the structures? Is he still What the [ __ ]  man? Come on. You know the [ __ ] Is he still

part of the structures? Yeah. All right. That's  you know because nobody's been able to locate him

and a lot of people have been looking for him.  So you guys must be hiding him somewhere. Yeah,

I bet too. All right. Okay. Now, when he was taken  back to get on a to get on a plane to leave the

country, who took him through security? Oh, we  did. Some of my fellows took him out there. We

took him on the plane and turned him over to  Ganon. You mean Ganon was his keeper on the

plane? That's right. No [ __ ] That's right. First  class. That big [ __ ] sitting right up there.

Mr. Key, I I remember because uh he asked me for  an upgrade and he had a a certificate and that was

the program that we were running at that time. And  so I I moved his class and um he was over the moon

about it. He was just so pleased and um we sort of  struck up quite a a rep for in that short period

of time. And then later uh another gentleman came  in who I found out was uh Mr. Ganon and after that

two other gentlemen came in and they were um Mr.  Okconor and Mr. Laraveier. Just from observation

it was obvious that they were traveling together.  They they greeted each other um with hugs and were

much relieved when the last member arrived. Um,  but I I was told by by a colleague who checked

them in downstairs that who had actually asked  me if I would mind having them in the club that

um she had assumed that they were traveling  together and therefore asked if they wanted

to sit together and they had denied that they were  actually traveling together. They they didn't know

each other and there was a few giggles and things  and um she was amazed by their attitude but just

thought they were playing around. Special  Forces Major Chuck McKe's hostage rescue

mission becomes a suicide mission the moment  he boards Panama 103 from the Clipper Lounge

in the fields near Tunder Goth Church. There  were a number of uh bodies in the bogs in

the woods and around the fields. I remember  particularly um the dictit family. I remember

um La Rivier and a few other uh names. All of  which I learned later on when I went to assist

the police with their inquiries to identify  where I'd found who. The ark goes right around

the crest of the hills overlooking where the  cockpit fell. There were a number of bodies

which subsequently became of great interest to  a lot of people. Charles McKe, a very brave man,

an expert in counterterrorism, was found just  up on the ridge there. Ganon, Matthew Ganon,

an intelligence officer. Ronald Larivier, another  intelligence officer. Captain Curry, special

forces, who according to his memorial was killed  in the line of duty. We've never found out exactly

what that duty was. There were saints and there  were sinners on that aircraft. There were also

some very strange people whose backgrounds have  never really been clarified. In particular, in the

Tund area near the church. I identified several  bodies amongst which were those of uh McKe and La

Rivier. I knew that McKe was absolutely correct  because of the clothing which correlated closely

with other reports and statements when we examined  matters later on the computers which were linked

to London and Washington. So far as Larivier was  concerned, he was in an area where there were only

two or three people and his details correlated  well with those on the computer. At the time, uh I

didn't know their names. Uh I wasn't uh very sure  exactly who they were working for but subsequently

of course it turned out to be Major Charles  McKe from the uh Defense Intelligence Agency and

uh Ron Laraveier and Matthew Ganon and several  other people that had loose connections with the

intelligence uh side of things. It's very strange  considering some of them were traveling together.

At least one of the bodies who should have been  found in a location beside his colleagues was

found in fact in a totally different location  beside or very close to the body of a person who

has been the subject of intense investigation  and speculation. One is forced to wonder what

somebody from the front of the plane was doing  landing beside somebody who was in the second last

row of seats in the aircraft. Khaled Jafar  in seat 53K at the very rear of the aircraft.

Matthew Ganon in first class near where the bomb  exploded. Their bodies are found 100 yards from

each other. The only passengers from opposite  ends of the aircraft to be thus joined in death.

Well, I was told early on uh that the bomb had  that the investigators believed the bomb had been

taken onto the plane by uh a US uh officer who  secundered to military intelligence and the bomb

had been planted on him uh in Beirut. Later on  when I started uh doing the research into Lockabe,

it was puzzling me that the the line was that  there weren't any drugs on the airplane because

it would seem that must be the first transatlantic  flight for a long time. not to have any drugs on

it. And just asking around people who'd been  involved in in the investigation afterwards and

involved removing the bodies from the hillside,  uh they they were able to tell me specific

passengers and what they had on them. And uh one  officer also told me how he had to get a farmer

uh passing with a tractor and trailer to help  him take his suitcase full of what he presumed

to be heroin uh away from Tundarth and down  to uh the Dexar factory where the luggage

uh was being stored once it was recovered from  the area around. The farmer Jim Wilson lives in

the farm facing Tundath Church. Still traumatized  by all the death in his fields and by the past

treatment by the press, he refuses to talk.  Private eye, however, had published an account.

That terrible December, as bodies were still being  found, Wilson told Panama 103 relatives, they too

will not appear publicly, that he was there when  the drugs were found. How soon after the police

found the drugs, Americans rushed to the scene in  an allterrain vehicle and took the stash away. The

Americans were very angry that the drugs had not  been found sooner. A Scottish policeman, bound by

official secrets and the draconian Scottish police  disciplinary act and therefore not able to speak

has confirmed that there were drugs found near  Tund. The police were told to keep an eye out for

drugs and Khaled Jafar's name had been repeatedly  mentioned as a drug courier. A mountain rescue man

has separately confirmed the finding of drugs.  He had been warned not to ever say anything.

The story was broadcast at 8:00 in the morning.  By 9:00, two uh senior policemen had arrived at

my office unannounced. Uh they knew I had written  the story despite the fact that it wasn't my voice

on it. Uh and uh proceeded to ask questions over  a period of about 6 hours, including the rather

bizarre offer to take me to Mrs. Thatcher, who's  then the prime minister at the time, to reveal

the source of the story to her if I couldn't if I  felt I couldn't reveal it to anyone else. Such was

the importance they had placed on finding out who  told me this information. Near the Kildair forest,

another secret find. This one never made public  by police, FBI, or secret services. The t-shirt

that we found was um had a a logo on on a just  a plain white t-shirt, which uh we understand is

something to do with a a free Palestine liberation  group. Um the police did come down separate to the

uh the time we were up in Belgium actually to my  home uh to take a statement about the the location

of the the article uh where it was found its grid  reference who' found it and uh at the time that

the police were down they mentioned it was part of  his bar group. Daily Express, December 31st, 1988,

10 days after the bomb brought down Panama 103.  The cover photo, Khaled Jafar. The sources for the

headline, the FBI and Scotland Yard. In the early  months of 1989, I was contacted by Mustafa Joffer

after quite a long period and he was contacting  me and he was quite excited about some information

and eventually it became clear over a number of  conversations that involved the downing of Panam

Flight 103 over Lockerby. And the information  was significant enough that he gave me which

is documented in in letters that I've shown you  that I contacted uh my congressman Larry Smith and

uh also notified the the president because it  was obviously a crime that was unsolved and

this person said they had information. Mustafa  Joffer said that a relative of his had perished

on the flight carrying a suitcase bound for  Detroit which undoubtedly contained drugs.

the information was extremely specific and that  they had someone within the organization that had

put the bomb on board that could give them some  indications of where future terrorist attacks were

going to begin. Over the course of uh many calls  and being in direct contact with the FBI and a

number of other people, the State Department uh  every every normal channel and authority became

quite clear that uh he had significant information  and in fact had predictive information in terms of

uh the attacks on the World Trade Center uh which  was one of several attacks which he said were

were staged were going to be staged at that time  and this was well in advance of those attacks.

When you think of the painstaking uh  investigation, the minute details that

had to be dealt with and when you think  of the the actual challenge to begin with,

you had over 270 people killed, 11 on the ground,

the remainder in the aircraft. itself. Every  one of those people excluding the people of

the citizens of Lockabe had to be investigated  for possible connection to the terrorist event

itself. Several of the investigators as well  as some of the British intelligence people

involved in the investigation were highly  honored by the United Kingdom's government.

All of us working on the case made it a very very  personal priority of the utmost order. We were not

going to let this go unpunished. And frankly, I  believe that we need to do more to punish Libya

uh than we have done if they do not surrender  the defendants and stand before the court of law.

Foreign

Lester Kobe, now a political refugee indicted by  the government of the United States for perjury

so doubt would be cast on what he might reveal  about the Lebanese drugs intelligence operation.

I took my family and went to Sweden. And when we  got to Sweden, we were went to the police station

in this town where we were going to live. And uh  we reported in and I told them our story and asked

for political asylum and they put us up in a uh a  refugee camp and they uh gave us a apartment and

uh a living stipen, clothes, cuz we didn't  have anything then at that point. No money.

It wasn't an easy thing for us to leave. And  we were looking over our shoulder the whole

time until we got to Sweden. And it was such a  relief, such a big burden off of our shoulders

when we got there that we all just broke down uh  in the police station. And uh it was a it was a uh

America.

for

the head of

In some countries they change presidents. In  some countries the president stays the same.

President Assad of Syria still runs the Bakar is

still paymaster to Ahmed Jabril.  Still protects and uses Hezbollah.

Another memorial. Another president, the  chief constable from Scotland, some of the

American Pan families, a monument in Arlington  National Cemetery where war heroes are buried.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's  ceremony. Please remain seated until the

official party has departed. Thank you for your  attendance and enjoy your day. My son was in the

army stationed in Germany and was due to come back  to the United States on that particular flight.

I can't say what that would have done,  but I it gave me an opportunity, I think,

to even more personally identify with the parents  and and relatives of the victims and to empathize

with what they must go be going through and what  they must have felt. FBI chief investigator into

the locker crash, Buck Rall's son, was not the  last lucky passenger to miss flying on Panama 103.

Steven Green, acting administrator of the  DEA, also had a reservation on the flight.

Green has described being on the Heathro tarmac  watching the doomed plane take off. There seems

to be somewhere in the world some organization  which classifies people as either important or

unimportant. And Flora was important. Flora was a  superb person, a lovely girl, one who would make

so much contribution to the welfare and happiness  of the human race through her medicine and in so

many other ways. And she is just as important  as any diplomat or politician or anybody else

you care to name. I think there are a thousand  reasons why we brought her here. My family's been

deeply attached to this island for generations.  You can see the names on the stones. And Flora

herself loved the island very much when she was  a little girl. This was where we always came for

holidays and therefore it was a joyful place for  her to come and the natural beauty of the place.

It certainly affects me very much and it affected  her very much too I think and she loves the sound

of the sea and the wildness of the place of course  means flower but uh to us it's a name that's run

in our family for generations and um through  my mother's side we're actually descended from

Flora McDonald who um rescued Bonnie Prince  Charlie from the red coats in the 1745 and so

it's a name that to us doesn't just mean flower  but it does of course also in Latin mean flower

and she was very very very fond of flowers. Um  and that also is appropriate here because in the

piece here there are no vandals and cut off the  I feel that the bulbs that we planted around her

grave here will be left in peace to grow and  to flour and uh nobody will come desperate.

I think if she could have had a hand in saying  where her ashes were to be, she she isn't here.

I wear

and I dress with gems you're here and

last year for you.

and good.