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On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear; in some cases, it never did.Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime - though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him innocent.Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran, not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988 (less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge. However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.… (meer)
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This book is dedicated to the memory of 270 people of all ages who died in an act of mass murder on 21 December 1988 above and in the town of Lockerbie and in homage to the individuals and families who lost their loved ones on that night but were denied justice and closure by government agencies in the USA and the United Kingdom.
Eerste woorden
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Introduction:
This is a real-life whodunnit, without the final scene where the master detective calls all the suspects together and reveals who committed the crime – which, in this case, is mass murder.
Chapter 1 In the Beginning
Thirty years after the tragedy which saw nearly 300 people simultaneously murdered in December 1988, the name of Lockerbie is still a synonym for mass murder.
Citaten
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Lockerbie’s Victorian town hall was used as a morgue for the first bodies found. When the tens of corpses became hundreds, the town’s ice rink was the most logical place to keep them.
Laatste woorden
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Searching for Abu Elias*by name leads only to a Lebanese restaurant, butcher’s shop and Middle Eastern take-out in Montreal, which sells such delicacies as calf’s brain sandwiches, tabouleh and kebabs.
So, it seems we shall never know officially who killed all those people above and in Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear; in some cases, it never did.Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime - though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him innocent.Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran, not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988 (less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge. However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.
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