US blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb

[sabra]

Source: UK Times Online

American intelligence documents blaming Iran for the Lockerbie bombing would have been produced in court if the Libyan convicted of Britain’s worst terrorist attack had not dropped his appeal.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer expected to be freed this week, had instructed his lawyers to produce US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) cables implicating the so-called “rogue state”.

The memo suggests Iran was behind the attack on Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people in 1988, in response to the shooting down of an Iranian commercial airliner by the USS Vincennes, an American warship, five months earlier.

One document the defence team had planned to produce was a memo from the DIA dated September 24, 1989. It states: “The bombing of the Pan Am flight was conceived, authorised and financed by Ali-Akbar Mohtashemi-Pur, Iran’s former interior minister.

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Robert Baer, a retired senior CIA agent who claims Iran was behind the attack, has alleged that the Americans were wary of pursuing the country in case it disrupted oil supplies and damaged the economy.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6797831.ece

[Wilms]

1. That's the least of it.

Have a look here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1992426

My guess is Libya payed the fine in order to move along.

[hedgehog]

2. This illustrates something I've never understood about Lockerbie

or 9/11: what's the point of terrorism unless it's clear who is behind it and what their demands are?

[LynnTheDem]

3. And the Tonkin Gulf incident was the cause of the invasion of Vietnam; the "we know where they are"

"wmds" was the cause of the invasion of Iraq...


It appears only most Americans are totally unaware of their country's SOP.

[Stuart G]

4. Here is a quote from the memo.. It was an eye for an eye.

The memo suggests Iran was behind the attack on Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people in 1988, in response to the shooting down of an Iranian commercial airliner by the USS Vincennes, an American warship, five months earlier..

"On Sunday July 3, 1988, an American ship, USS Vincennes, shot down an innocent Iranian Airliner killing 290 passengers..." from link below..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Of course Iran was responsible for the shoot down of Pan Am Flight 103. We shot them down, they shot us down.