There are a couple of key issues surrounding the release of the convicted Lockerbie /Pam AM flight bomber – one of which is whether of not he was even involved in perpetrating the atrocity. Syrian / Iranian involvement in the Lockerbie bombing has long been mooted – but the focus shifted to Libya during the run up to the First Gulf War – as the US and its Allies needed the Syrian’s on board - as well as Syrian troops on the ground with the Allied Armies - to swing the UN vote and liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation as well as passivity on the part of the Iranian’s who were no friend of Saddam’s Iraq.
What makes this relevant is that during the planned debate in the Scottish Parliament next week Christine Grahame, the SNP MSP for South of Scotland, is aiming to name a Syrian exile currently living under US protection in Washington DC as the true mastermind of the Lockerbie bombing, under parliamentary privilege. Grahame said the man had been named in Megrahi's appeal documents as a relative of one of the first leading suspects for the attack, the Syrian terrorist Ahmed Jibril of the pro-Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.
Even when you dismiss the cheap point scoring attempts being made by New / Old Labour and their Lib Dem coat holders next week’s debate could be interesting…
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