Going back to the 1980s bombings, there is still speculation that the attack in Germany was the work of Syria, but since Syria had state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missiles going after Syrian targets would have been too risky.

Greg, if you haven’t already read it, you’d probably enjoy Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Still, giving the terrorism-sponsoring state of Libya a well-deserved pounding wasn’t the worst thing the US government did that decade, not by a long mile, considering it was also the decade when the USA was found guilty of terrorist activity in an international court in relation to its despicable actions in Nicaragua.

You claim to represent the families of those who lost people in Pan Am 103. If you don’t like what I say here, or if you don’t like what other people say on their sites (including news sites), why do you merely show up and dump crap all over the place? Do you have a rational argument? Do you have something useful or important to say? Or are you just a troll?

As indicated in the post, I almost got on that fucking plane. That does not place me in a position at all similar to those who DID get on the plane, but it does give me an extra sharp sense of wanting to know what happened. Is that irrelevant to you?

If I was one of the members of Families of 103, I’d ask you to step down and be replaced with someone who actually has something useful to say. (or has that already happened?) I am perfectly willing to entertain ideas different from those stated in this post. But I am not interested in having you walk into my blog and pee on the carpet.

You’re choice. Your next comment will be polite even if it strongly disagrees strongly with my post, or you are not welcome to use my blog as a platform.

April 1986… All eyes are on the TVâ??s mounted over the bar, where we watch footage of an air strike against Lybia.

Interestingly enough, I was in Honduras as a military policeman assigned security to U.S. military VIPs who were flown to the border of Nicaragua to inspect the bodies and gear of the Sandinistas that were killed chasing Contras back across the border into Honduras from Nicaragua. One estimate of the number of Sandinistas killed that I heard was 200. To put it bluntly, neither the Honduran military nor the Contras had the capability to do that kind of damage. Only one military in the region had that kind of fire-power.

I’m not saying the bombing of Libya was an intended distraction, but it certainly was convenient at a time when the U.S. was getting a lot of heat from its involvement in trying to upset the Sandinista government.

A general pattern of the trial consisted in the fact
that virtually all people presented by the prosecution
as key witnesses were proven to lack credibility to a
very high extent, in certain cases even having openly
lied to the Court. Particularly as regards Mr. Bollier
and Mr. Giaka, there were so many inconsistencies in
their statements and open contradictions to statements
of other witnesses that the resulting confusion was
much greater than any clarification that may have
been obtained from parts of their statements. Their
credibility as such was shaken. It seems highly
arbitrary and irrational to choose only parts of their
statements for the formulation of a verdict that
requires certainty â??beyond any reasonable doubt.â?

(by Dr. Hans Köchler, University Professor, international observer of the
International Progress Organization nominated by United Nations)

There’s a whole load more – the whole thing’s over 30 pages PDF

I don’t feel able to give you much more in an open blog – with being a subscriber and all. Email me.