Pan Am Flight 103: Robert Mueller's 30-year Search for Justice

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PAN AM FLIGHT 103: ROBERT MUELLER’S 30-YEAR SEARCH FOR JUSTICE

THIRTY YEARS AGO last Friday, on the darkest day of the year, 31,000 feet above one of the most remote parts of Europe, America suffered its first major terror attack.

TEN YEARS AGO last Friday, then FBI director Robert Mueller bundled himself in his tan trench coat against the cold December air in Washington, his scarf wrapped tightly around his neck. Sitting on a small stage at Arlington National Cemetery, he scanned the faces arrayed before him—the victims he’d come to know over years, relatives and friends of husbands and wives who would never grow old, college students who would never graduate, business travelers and flight attendants who would never come home.

Burned into Mueller’s memory were the small items those victims had left behind, items that he’d seen on the shelves of a small wooden warehouse outside Lockerbie, Scotland, a visit he would never forget: A teenager’s single white sneaker, an unworn Syracuse University sweatshirt, the wrapped Christmas gifts that would never be opened, a lonely teddy bear.

A decade before the attacks of 9/11—attacks that came during Mueller’s second week as FBI director, and that awoke the rest of America to the threats of terrorism—the bombing of Pan Am 103 had impressed upon Mueller a new global threat.

It had taught him the complexity of responding to international terror attacks, how unprepared the government was to respond to the needs of victims’ families, and how on the global stage justice would always be intertwined with geopolitics. In the intervening years, he had never lost sight of the Lockerbie bombing—known to the FBI by the codename Scotbom—and he had watched the orphaned children from the bombing grow up over the years.
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[amcgrath]

1. This simply isn't true.

There is a vast amount of evidence that Megrahi had noting to do with the bombing. The shop keeper who reported the clothes gave evidence that was absolutely pathetic, he then changed details at the request of the police. His finished testimony bears no scrutiny. Other evidence falls apart fairly easily too.

He was paid a vast amount of money and is now something of a recluse. He is regarded as a disgrace by the people in his town.

Unfortunately American media were happy to be spoon fed whatever suited their narrative. It is largely believed that the attack was made by Iran in retaliation for an American Navy ship shooting down a civilian airliner. And that Libya was just a convenient scapegoat - no different to invading Iraq as a response to 9/11

Megrahi was released under extremely peculiar circumstances. With everybody blaming everybody. The reason given was health reasons and compassion. The British justice system shows little compassion on health grounds and releasing Megrahi was obviously going to cause huge consternation.

He was released because he had won a retrial. With the vast amount of evidence collected by UK media, his conviction would not have stood and the fraudulent activity of police and security agencies would have been exposed. He was given the opportunity to go home to Libya before that retrial started, with the obvious result, that the retrial would not happen.

One of the saddest scenes since the attack have been the American victims relatives who are consumed by the story they have been told. With a more dedicated and professional British media following up on the story, the push for a retrial of Megrahi was campaigned for by British victims relatives.

The investigation was fraudulent, the trial a sham. And the self satisfied attitude of the US press is disgusting. Do some research - I'd also like to point out that I have done no research. These facts are just so well known in the UK that they are taken in by osmosis.