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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

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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.

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cream.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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me.

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foreign.

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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.