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(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)

You have it in your bedroom, directly opposite your bed?

Yes, yes, so we see her every morning.

It was painted by Flora's boyfriend's father.

The first time I ever saw he'd finished the painting of her face,

in his studio,

and boyfriend's mother said before I went in, you know,

"Be careful, because you're in for a shock."

To see Flora's face looking back at me in that studio

is something I will never, ever forget as long as I live.

Absolutely caught her character beautifully, I think.

Showing the forget-me-not.

As if we could ever forget her.

She was very beautiful and very... everything. Very everything.

Remembering all the little things

from when she was a little tiny toddler.

It was wonderful.

What lies behind all this is so simple.

All I was after was the truth about why my lovely daughter

had to be murdered.

And I was bloody determined to find out who'd done it.

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

REPORTER: Pan Am Flight 103

crashed into the Scottish village of Lockerbie.

NEWSREADER. 270 lives lost.

It was Britain's worst ever air crash.

REAGAN: We have no knowledge of how this accident happened.

We're trying to find out.

It was an attack on America.

Largest crime scene in history. 200,000 pieces of evidence.

JIM: My daughter hadn't just died in an accident

but er... been brutally murdered.

They killed our children. To be lied to for 30 years.

I think the US Government had an agenda.

Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world.

VICTORIA CUMMOCK: If it's up to our Government,

we might not ever know the truth.

REPORTER: Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story.

This particular phase of our search for the truth is almost complete.

That is a tremendous relief, and that's the upside

of the decision by the judges to deliver their verdict so soon.

REPORTER: The court that has heard 84 days

and three million words of evidence

is ready for the final day of Britain's biggest mass murder trial.

From here, the three Scottish judges will deliver their verdict.

REPORTER 2: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 48,

and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, 44,

were both accused of planting the fatal bomb,

in a series of luggage transfers.

The prosecution, over nine months, called over 200 witnesses,

with 10,000 pages of testimony,

pressing its case that these men were Libyan terrorists.

The evidence, even though it was circumstantial,

we thought it was very convincing, and compelling.

(SIREN WAILS)

The key issues in evidence were Mr Megrahi's role

in the security services in Libya,

his use of false identities,

and his movement around Malta.

Not only his presence in Malta on the day of the bombing,

his presence in the airport on the morning that the suitcase

containing the bomb was ingested on the flight.

His connections with Mr Bollier,

who was the owner of Mebo Ltd.

And Mebo Ltd were the company who the court concluded

had manufactured the timing device that detonated the bomb.

PHIL: As far as Fhimah was concerned,

we came up with critical evidence.

Fhimah was the Libyan Arab Airlines manager here in Malta.

Megrahi couldn't have got that suitcase into the system

without Fhimah's help.

The entire Crown case had been based upon conspiracy,

and what I can say is that

the evidence surrounding it is highly, highly suspect.

REPORTER: Abdul Majid Giaka is the super-grass

billed as the Lockerbie trial's star witness.

REPORTER 2: We saw the two accused handling a brown suitcase,

like the one placed on board Pan Am 103.

He was such a dreadful witness.

I mean, for a start,

the judges made clear they didn't believe really anything he said.

JIM: Gauci was another key figure.

He knew that the US Department of Justice was offering

virtually unlimited, certainly millions of dollars,

to anyone who would give evidence

and so he is motivated to go after that money.

The lack of credible evidence was what converted me to realising

the two accused men clearly could've had nothing to do with it.

We waited for the judges to come onto the bench

to deliver their... verdict

and we had absolutely no idea what was gonna happen.

The evidence, in its totality, made it so compelling

but there was no smoking gun.

I can remember holding Phil Reid's hands.

We were sitting next to each other and I can remember just...

we probably squeezed each other extra hard.

REPORTER: The judges had listened to 84 days of evidence,

and then today announced their verdict in less than a minute.

Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was innocent, they decided.

His co-accused, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi,

was guilty of the 270 murders.

The shock of the verdict initially, was so great, I collapsed.

I had what's called a vasovagal attack - my heart stopped.

Jim Swire, who was two rows in front of me, collapsed.

And at the same time, Mr Megrahi's now-widow

was very vocal in her distress,

as were other family members.

So, it was instantly alarming.

When I, sort of, came round from all this, I said,

"Send for a dram of whisky!"

And unfortunately the Scottish doctor wouldn't supply any whisky,

quite rightly, in retrospect,

to somebody who'd been unconscious for several minutes.

(CLAMOURING)

I thought they would both be sent home, either not proven,

which was a valid decision under Scottish law at the time,

or not guilty.

DIRECTOR: Do you remain convinced they put the wrong man in prison?

Oh, yes. I... I'm now...

I would say, 99.9% convinced.

I have to leave a little area

because we can always, any of us, be wrong.

REPORTER: The American families at least,

are at pleased that at least someone has been convicted in this case,

although many people are left to wonder,

how one of the accused could be guilty and the other not.

The moment in which Megrahi was convicted, but Fhimah was left...

you know, let go, there was palpable

concern about the decision.

My heart broke when Mr Fhimah was allowed to leave the courtroom

because clearly...

that bomb could not have gotten on the plane without his assistance.

We didn't understand that either. But from what I remember,

there are some nuances in Scots Law about corroboration

and I believe it was there, his diary could not be corroborated.

(WOMAN SOBS)

REPORTER: It's been a day of conflicting emotions.

Delight, at seeing at least one conviction,

but anger that the sentence isn't longer.

It was such a short sentence, because a life sentence

in Scotland is 20 years.

And it's 20 years for all of your victims,

so we were horrified

that this was supposed to bring justice

to... to our loved ones.

By finding Megrahi guilty, we believed

that vindicated our findings

that this was a Libyan government operation.

(CHANTING)

This, to me, meant that this was ordered by Gaddafi,

even though that never came to court, it vindicated us.

(CHANTING AND WHISTLING)

This case is very polarised... has been for many, many years.

I worked as a researcher with Megrahi's lawyers.

I've been involved in the case for about 30 years.

There's very much two different camps, if you like.

One camp believes that justice was done at Camp Zeist,

to the extent that Megrahi was convicted.

And then, there are others,

who are very sceptical of the Megrahi conviction,

in fact, believe that he was wrongly convicted

and believe that the suspects

actually lie outside of Libya.

The camp, if you can call them that,

of people, who believe that Megrahi was innocent,

is in a minority, undoubtedly.

The prevailing view is that Libya and Megrahi were guilty.

REPORTER: This evening, Khalifa Fhimah headed for Libya.

Al-Megrahi stayed behind bars. And the quest for the truth goes on.

(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

Without wishing to impugn the truth of the verdict against Megrahi,

I wonder whether he really did do it.

(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)

I could not believe three senior Scottish judges

would convict anybody on that evidence.

I wasn't prepared to allow associating Flora's death

with anything as untrue and debasing as the story

that was raised by the authorities against those two men.

I was very shaken up, psychologically,

by the fact that I knew Megrahi was innocent...

and the authorities protected,

in effect, her killers.

Jim is a remarkable character.

I mean, Jim is, if you like, of the establishment.

He's an old Etonian.

He's someone who's Conservative with a small "c",

who was brought up to believe in British institutions, in fair play.

And on his journey,

he learns that actually, truth and justice don't always come first.

He's been lied to, occasionally abused,

yet throughout it, he has maintained

this extraordinarily graceful,

gentlemanly demeanour.

DIRECTOR: Where do you think this extraordinary obsession,

where does that come from?

Has it always been in Jim's character?

We've been married over 60 years,

and I hadn't noticed it before, but, of course,

we were in extreme circumstances,

so it does breed extremism.

He was appalled to see a wrong verdict,

and he wanted to put it right.

In the same way that Jim was driven by the campaign,

what was your response?

Just trying to survive it, one step at a time.

DIRECTOR: Do you feel Megrahi is guilty?

(EXHALES) That's a re...

That's a very difficult question to answer.

I have a lot of unease about information that I know is out there

but I'm not able to get sight of it for reasons of National Security.

And until access to those can be gained,

I think the controversy will continue.

So, for many people there are even more questions, rather than less.

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

(CHURCH BELL TOLLS)

(JIM CALLS TO HENS)

This is the infamous filing cabinet you were talking about?

That's the infamous filing cabinet. It's all full of Lockerbie stuff.

So, this is 35 years of work? Yes.

Sadly, many of the people who've helped so much

over those 35 years are no longer with us.

The FBI and America said publicly,

that there could have been no case brought against the Libyans

had it not been for a fragment of circuit board

that was recovered from the wreckage.

"PT/35(b)" is a perfect optical copy

of a Mebo circuit board,

but it was made by a different technology.

The copper was coated with pure tin, not with tin/lead mixture.

We have material prepared by

bona-fide academic institutions, two of them,

who reviewed the technology used

to make the fragment called "PT35(b)"

and they confirmed that it was plated with pure tin

not with tin/lead mixture.

And therefore, if it was made in any commercial enterprise at all

must have been made after 1988.

Nobody in the industry was using pure tin back in '88.

Do you believe that "PT/35(b)" is a fake?

Yes.

When I was working on the Megrahi appeal

as a researcher with the legal team,

I developed the evidence on the circuit board,

I spoke to the relevant experts.

There are a number of anomalies concerning "PT/35(b)"

concerning its provenance,

that strongly suggest that it was a plant.

Who planted it?

I don't know.

That piece of evidence has been under scrutiny by the trial,

by the Criminal Cases Review Commission on a number of occasions

and the conclusion at the end is

that there is not any weight to attach to the conspiracy theories

around the fragment having been planted.

(WIND WHISTLES)

I honestly believe it's very important

for the truth to be out there,

but there are people that doubt what, I think, the facts are,

and they don't wanna believe

that anybody in government can tell the truth.

And I will say this: the people who worked on this case,

top to bottom, were honest, forthright,

believe in justice, wanted to do the right thing.

DIRECTOR: Some people call you a conspiracy theorist.

How does that make you feel?

You're saying to me also something

which is tantamount to saying that I'm wrong.

I may be wrong- No, I'm not saying you're wrong.

Hang on a minute. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't have the knowledge to say-

Hang on just a moment until the... until the... the real...

the phrase that really matters.

That the key item, upon which the whole case depends on,

clearly is not correct.

Can I suggest that if you have another meeting with Mr Marquise

that you copy one little message to him?

That's a little saying that goes,

"There is none so blind as he that will not see."

The evidence that was used in the court to convict a Libyan

was, in fact, false.

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

I am 100% convinced

Pan Am 103 was brought down by a timer

built in a shop in Zurich, Switzerland, by Mebo.

Absolutely convinced of that.

(COINS JINGLING)

(SPEAKS GERMAN)

He has suggested that I offered him $4 million and-

Did you? No. God, no.

Initially he said a man by the name of Buck Revell offered it to him.

He never met Buck Revell.

All of a sudden, he remembers he met me, so I offered him the money.

No, I did not offer him one cent.

The only thing I can tell you that I did tell him:

"You need to tell us everything you know.

You need to tell the truth."

That's the problem. His story kept changing. It changed at the trial,

and it's changed subsequent to that.

JOHN: Edwin Bollier is someone who's shrouded in a lot of mystery.

We've never known which side of the fence he's playing. Probably both.

I can remember, Mr Megrahi has an office in Mebo.

OK, that's another circumstance.

All the circumstances, to me, amount to a pile, a big pile.

(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)

Well... Well there's one thing you would be interested in here,

is the lapel badge that I wore

the first time I went to see Gaddafi.

And it just says: "Lockerbie, the truth must be known".

And the truth is actually very simple,

but the consequences of trying to conceal the truth

are incredibly complex.

DIRECTOR: You said to us at one point,

"I think I know who killed my daughter."

Who do you think that was? I think she was killed by a bomb,

which was ordained by the Iranian authorities.

(TENSE MUSIC)

Coming inbound fast!

The motive they had was that they had had an Airbus destroyed

by an American missile... (MISSILE WHOOSHES)

and 290 people killed.

And therefore they were lusting for revenge.

(CHANTING)

I have no doubt it was Iran.

I don't say the Iranians personally went and blew up Pan Am.

They used the PFLP-GC, one of their client states.

We knew the Iranians were behind all the American

and British hostages in Lebanon.

They'd been held for the last eight years or more.

I worked on it. I was in Lebanon. I worked on that case.

(CHEERING AND WHISTLING)

I think we cut a deal with the Iran and said,

"You give us back all the hostages,

we will drop the focus on you for Pan Am."

Cos we knew we were guilty at why the Iranians did it, we did.

They did it in retaliation for us killing 250 of their people.

"So, we'll go after Libya, cos we always wanted to go after Libya."

And US Presidents have hated Gaddafi since he took over in 1969.

He kicked all the American oil companies out of Libya.

I'm not saying, I'm not defending Gaddafi.

I'm not saying he's a clean character.

He's got a lot of blood on his hands.

But not the Pan Am blood.

(MOTORBIKE ENGINE DRONES)

(SOMBRE MUSIC)

Have you ever heard of Jim Swire?

Yes, that is the first person I phoned from the Lockerbie case.

He was telling me that the Libyans were maybe not responsible

for the terrorist attack on the plane that killed my father.

(WIND GUSTS)

Every time I say that my father

was killed in a terrorist attack

on a plane, they say, "Oh! Lockerbie!"

And I say, "No, but there was another flight nine months after,

who has been... who exploded."

UT772.

There were 170 persons on the flight.

It was, in fact, a bomb, with a timer.

UTA was the French company that was having many flights in Africa.

My father went in the plane in N'Djamena...

and one hour after take-off, the plane exploded over Niger.

His name was Jean Henri. John Henry.

He died at 49, and now I'm 60, so I overtook him.

And it was difficult when I had...

when I was 49, to see that I lived more than my father.

There was a French investigation.

They went in Libya and found evidence that this explosion

was due to a suitcase,

Samsonite, that was on board.

They also found the same luggage in the office of Abdullah Senussi.

Abdullah Senussi is the brother-in-law of Gaddafi

and Chief of the Secret Services of Libya.

And there were ten other luggage in the office of Senussi.

And he also found the order of a hundred timers

that had been ordered by the Secret Service.

(BOAT HORN)

Ten years after the... the terrorist attack,

we had a trial in absentia.

We had nobody in... in court.

So the trial was very short, it was two days.

Because, in fact, there was no debate.

There were six Libyans.

Who were the six Libyans put on trial in absentia?

Only one is important, is Abdullah Senussi.

The other ones were just under the instructions of Abdullah Senussi.

The sentence was the maximum sentence

but it was bullshit, by the way,

because... they were not there.

Do you believe that your father's flight

and the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 flight are connected?

They are completely connected.

Same perpetrators, same state, same method.

These two flights are completely connected.

(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)

I have the three white roses for Christopher, Matthew, and Ashley.

And my red rose, as always.

If John had to fall out of the sky,

this couldn't have been a better place for him to come down.

He was a very proud American, of Scottish descent.

Do you ever find yourself looking over to the field?

Oh, yes. Yes, because that's where John died.

He was...

He was in the nose cone of the plane.

You know, through the years you don't get over...

a loss of this type or this magnitude.

You just learn how to live with it.

And knowing that he is where he is,

here at Tundergarth in Scotland,

among this most beautiful countryside and setting.

You know, it's such a peaceful and serene place.

(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)

When I got John back and I viewed him,

I promised to him that I would try to find out who did this

and hold people accountable,

because I know that if I had been on that flight,

he would've done the same thing.

When al-Megrahi was found guilty, as a Libyan official,

of bringing down Pan Am 103,

the Libyans created a no-fault settlement offer,

saying that Libya was not taking responsibility,

but was offering $10 million.

And that the family members had to sign off

on ever trying to pursue Libya ever again.

I felt that if Libya didn't do it, they didn't owe me a penny,

and if they did do it,

they shouldn't be forcing us to sign a no-fault settlement deal.

INTERVIEWER: Does Libya accept responsibility

for the attack on Lockerbie?

So, to be very clear on this, what you're saying is

that you accept responsibility,

but you're not admitting that you did it?

Of course.

Playing devil's advocate here, there are people who'd say,

"If Libya had nothing to do with bombing Pan Am 103,

why did they pay all this compensation?"

I think that... that's a question that's fairly easily answered.

Gaddafi's son, Saif Gaddafi, told me,

"Yeah, we've decided to pay compensation

because that's the only way we can get the ball rolling

and get our oil industry back on stream

and get the money coming in again."

JOHN: Libya desperately wanted and needed to get its relationship

with the West back on track.

In order to do that they had to admit responsibility

for the bombing, whether or not they did it,

and pay compensation, whether or not they did it.

Whichever camp you fall into,

whether you believe the Libyan's did it, or whether you believe

that Iran was behind the bombing,

you've always been thwarted by politics.

Tony Blair, in the last days of his time as Prime Minister,

met with Muammar Gaddafi,

and during this meeting there were two documents signed.

One was a very large British petroleum deal.

And the second was a prisoner transfer agreement.

In Libya, there were no UK prisoners,

and there was only one Libyan prisoner in all of the UK.

Al-Megrahi.

JOHN: Megrahi was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2008.

At that point, a lot was going on in the background.

Tony Blair had done his deal in the desert a year earlier.

There was a very strong push to normalise relations with Libya

and as far as the Libyans were concerned,

if they were gonna do any deal about oil,

that deal had to involve Megrahi coming home.

(SHOUTING)

How did you feel when Megrahi was released?

Pissed.

And I'd had nothing to drink. I was angry.

I'm not a big believer in the death penalty,

but I think you need to sit in prison the rest of your life

and think about what you did.

REPORTER: Dressed in a white tracksuit

and walking with the aid of a stick,

Al-Megrahi said his final goodbyes.

His medical notes describe a man in increasing pain.

According to experts, he has less than three months to live.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

To me, I thought, "Well, I guess this is Scottish justice

and everything."

But I found that all, um...

pretty appalling.

REPORTER: Libyan television showed the British Ambassador

telling Tripoli to keep Al-Megrahi's homecoming a low-key affair.

(BAND PLAYING)

Hundreds of people were bussed in for the event.

Scottish flags were provided.

It was a decision taken by the Scottish legal system

but it's clear, the return of the bomber suits many people.

Out of all the things that have happened since December 21st, 1988,

I would say Megrahi's release was probably one of the hardest things.

His release on compassionate leave

was very hard to stomach,

because, you know, my father and none of the people

on the plane or on the ground

had been treated with any compassion.

So, it was a very, very difficult moment.

JIM: I wanted him to go home,

so he could die with his family cos I knew he was innocent.

And yet, he was in Malta airport the day of the bombing.

I don't blame you for being unable to disassociate yourself

from this superstructure of Frankfurt, Malta, Libyans, Gaddafi,

why it all hangs together,

one office up to another.

What if it's far simpler than that?

What if somebody came across to Heathrow, broke in,

put it in the labelled container saying Pan Am and walked away again?

What if?

Heathrow Airport was actually broken into the evening before Lockerbie.

Which meant that anybody who was carrying

one of these devices in a suitcase

could have been strolling around airside Heathrow for 24 hours

before the disaster happened.

John Bedford was a Heathrow loader.

He was loading the container that was subsequently discovered

to have contained the bombed suitcase.

He went on a tea break.

He came back half an hour later, or so

and noticed that there were two suitcases in the container,

lying on the floor, one of which was a brown, Samsonite-type case.

He hadn't put it there himself. He didn't know who'd put it there.

The only reasonable conclusion we can draw from this,

is that the suitcase John Bedford saw

was rogue and contained the bomb.

John Bedford did give evidence at the trial

and he was described as an impressive witness,

but the judges dismissed the defence claim

that that suitcase must have contained the bomb.

You worked on Megrahi's appeal,

which suggests you have a particular take on the story?

Yeah, I mean, my primary belief is that Megrahi was wrongly convicted

and wasn't involved in Lockerbie.

It's a very difficult story to navigate through.

There are a lot of agendas, some plain, some hidden.

Everybody's got a slightly different story.

Piecing that together into a reliable narrative

is extremely difficult.

This was state-sponsored terrorism.

That's the only thing we definitely know about Lockerbie.

But the full extent of that state-sponsored terrorism

remains under a veil of secrecy.

I believe, as a Libyan citizen,

that Megrahi was used...

on behalf of Gaddafi,

to take part in that horrendous crime,

but play a small part.

I think it was a three-way operation.

Iran paid the money.

The fringe Palestinian group in Syria

provided the technology and the planning.

And I think Gaddafi provided the facilitation to use the Malta route.

I mean, could you argue that Megrahi

didn't help himself at various points.

I mean he... he seems to have given several different explanations

as to why he was in Malta at the time the bomb was put on the plane.

Megrahi arguably seals his own fate.

He told two key lies.

One was that he wasn't associated with Bollier.

The other was that he wasn't in Malta the night before the bombing.

Now, the reason he said he told those lies was that he was petrified

that something he might say,

would give the Americans cause to bomb Libya.

It was only five years after the previous bombing raids

and he didn't know what to do.

He did what he thought was best, which was lie.

The Lockerbie disaster was probably closest, out of any other,

sort of legal event, to the assassination of John Kennedy.

Because the questions over JFK's death have never been answered,

and indeed the individual that's presented

as having caused this, caused the death,

for many people, they're a small pin in a much bigger picture.

So, Megrahi's the Lee Harvey Oswald?

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

What kind of day is this? This is the 31st of July.

We're nearly in August. This is normal for us.

You're in the clouds. You're near heaven.

You usu... (LAUGHS) Our heads are in the clouds.

The last time we were here, one of the things we talked about,

you know, the body that you found, still in... still in his seat...

Yes... in the field over there.

Hugh, you talked about how you guys developed a relationship with him?

Right from the start, I think. We called him "Our Boy," you know?

Cos he just looked so young.

You know, we felt responsible for him really

and we knew there'd be relatives somewhere...

saddened by what had happened.

But you did eventually find out, didn't you?

Yes, it took quite a while. I don't know how long.

And what was his name? Frank Ciulla. Yeah.

And we, as I say, we thought he was just a boy.

But er... he was actually 40, I think.

45. That there was a wife called Mary Lou.

We were just keeping hoping they would come, you know?

And then it was arranged she was coming for these ashes

and that would be her first visit.

So how often have you kept in contact over the last 30 years?

- All the time. - Mary Lou always felt it was such a beautiful place

for Frank to fall. I know!

I don't know what she'll think today, mind you!

She's never been here on a day like this! (LAUGHS)

(CHURCH BELL TOLLS)

NEWSREADER: Now a new twist in the quest for justice.

REPORTER: A Libyan man accused of making the bomb

that destroyed a passenger jet over Lockerbie 34 years ago

has been taken into US custody.

Several people are in a critical condition...

I have to start here.

Yes. It's pretty extraordinary.

One of the biggest developments in 34 years,

and we are left spinning,

wondering how or what to think.

REPORTER: Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, the so-called "third man",

he is now in American custody.

I think people are not conflicted,

but they are... I'm not even sure they're divided.

They're just not sure on what to make of it all.

What do you make of the latest - development in the story? - Mr Masud?

Masud confessed to building Pan Am 103 device,

and putting it on the plane, along with Fhimah and Megrahi.

According to the criminal complaint affidavit,

Masud built the bomb

that destroyed Pan Am 103.

My recollection is we got his name

about the same time as we got Megrahi's name.

We were getting cooperation from the CIA.

They probably took it from their cables as being somebody

who was in and out of Malta.

When the Scottish police went to Libya in 1999, they asked questions.

"We wanna see the passport records for Megrahi. We want Fhimah.

We want Masud."

"We don't know who Masud is. Can't identify him. Don't know who he is."

If the Libyan Government itself had not been involved in this,

perhaps there would have been some cooperation?

Masud's confession is probably not worth the paper it was written on

because it was given to, you know, Libyan Security Forces,

after the downfall of Gaddafi, for which would read malicious.

This was not a confession that was given under circumstances

that would give you confidence in its authenticity.

After 35 years, it's like, I have friends that actually say,

"When is it gonna end?" I say, "It never ends."

You just never stop wanting justice to somehow be served.

The first time that I had any hope to see actual action

was when I got the 3am email from the Department of Justice

saying that they had apprehended Masud,

and he was on a plane heading to America.

The US apprehension and arrest of Libyan terrorist suspect

Abu Agila Mohammad Masud

is the first tangible step made by the US Department of Justice

in 34 years, to hold any suspect accountable in US courts.

Have we heard from him since he was indicted,

brought here a couple of months ago?

We haven't heard a word since. We haven't heard when the trial date is set.

I think this is just another one of...

This will go on for months, if not years.

It's cleared a bit right enough... Yeah.

Hi! - HUGH: Yes! Hi. - Hello.

Ah, great.

I was just saying, I have to show you... Good to see you.

I have to show you all the pictures of the last few days.

We've had a busy... Oh, yes! Yes!..a busy few days.

(LAUGHS) Oh, where have you been? - How you doing? - Good.

Tell me, you guys have obviously built this relationship now,

but what was it like the first time you came here?

When I first met them, I felt like I knew them already. I mean, really.

They... They were warm and we hugged and it was OK.

What happened felt so inhumane

and felt so violent and... horrific.

Oh, it was. - And it was. It was. - Yes.

But then, coming here and seeing this,

like, other side of the story, the humanity came back.

I felt that he was alone somewhere

and yet, when I came here, he wasn't alone.

So, that kind of really helped me a lot because he was with them.

Yeah. I was a different person when I came

and a different person when I left.

Mine was actually, and I don't even know how to say it, "a nice story".

Do you know what I mean? It was a nice story.

I'm almost very happy I waited those three years to come.

I just will never forget how you walked to the spot.

You were so confident where to go and it was like,

feeling like how important that place was for you too... Yes, yes.

And the spot where his life ended.

Like that's a major part of the story

and we know where he came to this earth,

where he was found and we can stand there.

It's like, it's stunning.

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JIM: It's a lovely spot.

It looks out over the... the sea.

My father and my mother's graves are here

and a memorial to poor Flora, facing theirs.

One of the things that I've always been very aware of

since Lockerbie happened was that hatred for those

who had actually carried out the atrocity,

would be counter-productive.

But the question that that left was,

"Well, what can one do about terrorism?"

And, for me, it seems, the first thing you can do about terrorism

is find out who the terrorists were

and even that, in this situation,

has been concealed from the closest relatives.

Justice throughout,

whichever view of justice you take in this case,

has been occluded by the geopolitical considerations.

We had to learn to live without her.

I would be walking down the street and I thought I saw her,

you know, getting off a bus, or sort of, something like that.

It's the... the turning point of everything.

It's... It's like before Helga and after Helga.

This is John's boarding pass.

It says Pam Am 103, 21st December.

His seat was 3A.

I always felt guilty that I didn't go with him

because I... I thought that maybe if we had gone,

we would have come back the following day together.

But then again, who knows, right?

Who knows?

DIRECTOR: You're now 87, aren't you?

Yes, if I could remember, I would say yes to that.

I mean, you've spent the last 35 years living with this.

No regrets doing that? Infinite regrets.

The only regret that really matters, of course, is the loss of Flora.

We are left with a legacy of loss,

but also of good memories

of a beautiful and beloved child.

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