From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Feb 3 12:54:18 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA11140; Wed, 3 Feb 93 12:54:16 -0500 Message-Id: <9302031754.AA11140@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 12:46:05 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 20066 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Subject: Part 1, U.S. Gov't Complicitous in Blowing Up Americans on Pan Am 103 Message-ID: <1993Feb3.162323.19628@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: U.S. Government Complicitous in Blowing Up Americans on Pan Am 103 Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, FREE Public Access UNIX! Lines: 147 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PHYLLIS BENNIS: Beginning in the Reagan Administration, demonization became a crucial tool of United States foreign policy. With a constant refrain of terrorism-baiting featured on the nightly news, day after day, it was no surprise that Reagan's anti-terrorism crusade gained popular acceptance among many American people. Libyan leader Moammar Khaddafi and Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini became interchangeable public enemies. But it wasn't only a battle of images. In 1986, U.S. war planes did attack Tripoli, killing, among [many] others [in residential apartments], Khadaffi's infant daughter. [JD: The U.S. bombed Libya in retaliation for what it claimed was a Libyan terrorist bombing of a night club in Germany which killed American servicemen. U.S. leaders probably knew that Libya was innocent of this bombing, but President Reagan went right ahead anyway and bombed civilian apartment dwellers in Tripoli. Since the air raids, our leaders definitely had evidence showing that Libya was innocent of the disco night club bombing, and that Syrian terrorists were likely responsible for it. But did our fair U.S. leaders apologize and pay reparations to the families of the slaughtered civilians? No. Did our fair leaders declare Libya to be innocent? No. Did our fair corporate-controlled mass media tell the American People that it had made a mistake in demonizing the Libyan People unjustly? No. Another one of many atrocities by the criminal elite who rule over our United States. More evidence that our evil rulers only desecrate the flag of the United States and the principles of justice, for which it stands.] The recent return to attacks on Libya as a terrorist has raised anew the possibility, if not yet the probability of another United States military attack, perhaps as a last-ditch White House effort to raise Bush's standing in his plummeting pre-election polls. The United States' anti-Libya campaign is based, for now, in the United Nations where Washington and London have joined forces in the Security Council to prepare the ground for economic sanctions against Libya -- the first steps, some believe, towards a unilateral or internationally-sanctioned military assault. The Security Council's first step was to pass a resolution demanding that Tripoli hand over to the United States and Britain two of its citizens claimed [by U.S. Government officials] to be involved in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. While the United States and Britain did not succeed in this first round of winning full Security Council backing for immediate sanctions, it is likely that a sanctions resolution will follow. The terms will likely focus on a civil aviation embargo, prohibiting flights to or from Libya. ..... SAMORI MARKSMAN: Much of what the Bush Administration has touted as "hard evidence" of the Libyan connection to the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 has to do with a supposed "Maltese connection"; namely, that the two accused Libyans placed the bomb on the flight from Malta after they had purchased a number of items, in Malta, supposedly in connection with the placing of a suitcase, containing the explosives, onto the airplane. But the Government of Malta and Air Malta -- in whose facilities the alleged suitcase was supposed to have been transferred -- have both issued statements in direct contradiction to those put out by President Bush, the United States Justice Department and the U.S.- dominated United Nations Security Council. SPOKESMAN FOR AIR MALTA: In the applications for the warrants, allegations are made mentioning Air Malta and flight KM-180, specifically. But, in particular, it is alleged that the baggage containing the bomb which caused the tragedy was carried on said flight of December 21, 1988. The evidence in possession of Air Malta, and duly passed on to the investigating police, shows that there was no unacceptable baggage on board flight KM-180, of December 21, 1988. And Air Malta has been assured by the investigating authorities, as far back as October, 1989, that all passengers on board the flight had been identified and all baggage accounted for. It is also the belief of Air Malta, which has fully cooperated with the Scottish police in the investigations locally, that the presence -- on the Air Malta flight, of the baggage containing the bomb -- is purely hypothetical; and so is the alleged possession of an airline luggage tag by unauthorized persons. These are the main allegations made with respect to Air Malta; and they are -- to the best of Air Malta's knowledge and belief -- unsupported by any concrete evidence. They are no more than mere suppositions, so much so that the Scottish police have no explanation as to how they [these alleged acts] happened, if they happened at all. Moreover, at the press conference, Lord Frazier[?] stated that, although it is alleged that certain critical events took place in Malta, there is no evidence that any Maltese citizen was involved in the tragedy. The statement by Air Malta applies equally to the statement made yesterday, by the acting Attorney-General of the United States, on the Lockerbie disaster, dated 15 November, 1991. SAMORI MARKSMAN: In addition to that statement from Air Malta officials, following are excerpts from a statement issued by the Minister of Information of the Government of Malta, in the presence of a visiting Libyan delegation two weeks ago: SPOKESMAN FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF MALTA: As regards the tragic incident of Pan AM flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland: ONE: Both sides reaffirm anew their resolute stand against terrorism in all its forms, including STATE TERRORISM [e.g. the bombing of Libya, the bombing of Panama, the bombing of Iraq]. TWO: Both sides condemn the use, or the threat of the use of force as a method of conduct in relations between states. They call for the adherence to the U.N. Charter and full respect for international law. THREE: The Maltese side reiterated that, from the investigations carried out, it was not found that any unaccompanied baggage was taken on board Air Malta flight KM-180 to Franfort on December 21, 1988. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The American Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo