Ludwig De Braeckeleer

Ludwig De Braeckeleer
Interests	Lockerbie Bombing

Ludwig De Braeckeleer has a PhD in Nuclear Sciences and teaches Physics and International Humanitarian Law in Bogota, Colombia. De Braeckeleer has studied the Lockerbie case for many years and has published more than 100 Lockerbie-related articles on the OhmyNews, Canada Free Press and The Gaia Post websites.

In April 2015, Ludwig De Braeckeleer established a blog focused on the MEBO MST-13 timer fragment PT/35(b) which he describes as the central piece of evidence in the Lockerbie case. According to De Braeckeleer:

"Today we know that PT/35(b) is a forgery. We also know that at least one witness was well aware that PT/35(b) could not have been part of the MST-13 timers delivered to Libya and that this witness deliberately withheld this information from the court. At this point, one can reasonably infer that this so-called evidence was planted.

"How do we know that PT/35(b) is a forgery? Who could possibly have committed such a crime and for what possible motives? Where, when and by whom was this forgery fabricated?

"These are some of the questions that this blog intends to discuss and will hopefully answer."

PT/35(b), the fabricated timer fragment

Nailing the Lockerbie lie

On 19 May 2010, former diplomat Patrick Haseldine e-mailed Ludwig De Braeckeleer nailing this Lockerbie flight booking lie:

From Patrick Haseldine

Dear Ludwig, In yesterday's e-mail, you wrote:

I have been quite busy in recent months but I kept reading the material you sent me as well as Prof Black's blog. I plan to write a few short pieces again... Lol

May I ask you 2 quick questions?

1. How long does it take to a diplomatic delegation (SA) to clear through JFK?

2. How long in advance would the reservation have been made for a diplomatic delegation going to the UN?

Patrick Haseldine, 'Emeritus Professor of Lockerbie Studies'

From these questions, it is safe to assume that your 'few short pieces' are going to dwell upon the alleged booking on Pan Am Flight 103 made for South Africa's foreign minister, Pik Botha, and his 22-strong entourage. Up to now Lockerbie investigators seem to have avoided this issue completely, but evidence has recently been uncovered to show that Botha and the SA diplomatic delegation were never in fact booked on PA 103.

In 1986, a ban on direct flights by South African Airways into the USA was introduced. In November 1988, flight reservations were made for Pik Botha and his delegation to attend UN headquarters for the signature of the New York Accords on 22 December 1988. They were booked on the overnight flight SA 234 from Johannesburg arriving London (Heathrow) at 07:20 on 21 December 1988. SAA could not continue to New York so the booking for onward travel was by Pan Am Flight 101 departing Heathrow at 11:00. There was never any question of the SA diplomatic delegation hanging around at Heathrow until 18:00 when PA 103 was scheduled to depart. It follows that the SA delegation did not have to be 'warned' against flying on PA 103 or indeed 'hauled off' the flight, since they were never intended to be on PA 103 in the first place.

The above attachments and the self-explanatory exchange of e-mails in March 2010 (below) between former De Beers employee Gordon Brown, Dr Jim Swire and me provide more detailed information on the matter of Pik Botha and PA 103.

A quarry of source material on the targeting of PA 103's most prominent victim, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, can be found in the album of 'Wall Photos' on my facebook page.

Best wishes,

Patrick H.

To Dr Jim Swire

--- On Thu, 11/3/10, Patrick Haseldine <patrick.haseldine@btinternet.com> wrote:

From: Patrick Haseldine <patrick.haseldine@btinternet.com>

Subject: Colin Eglin

To: "Dr Jim Swire" <drjimswire@aol.com>

Cc: "Gordon Brown" <gordondouglasbrown@yahoo.co.uk>

Date: Thursday, 11 March, 2010, 16:09

Dr Jim Swire, father of Lockerbie victim Flora

Dear Jim, In the attachment, Gordon Brown provides the address in Cape Town and a contact telephone number for former MP Colin Eglin. Gordon suggests in his e-mail below that Mr Eglin might respond favourably to an approach by you for information on the following matter:

In a letter to a British Lockerbie victim’s family dated 18 July 1996, Mr Eglin wrote of questions he had put to South African Justice Minister Dullah Omar in the National Assembly in June 1996.

On 5 June 1996, Mr Eglin had asked Mr Omar if Mr Pik Botha and his entourage 'had any plans to travel on this flight (Pan Am Flight 103) or had reservations for this flight; if so, why were the plans changed?'

In reply in the National Assembly on 12 June 1996, Justice Minister Omar stated he had been informed by the former minister of foreign affairs (Pik Botha) that shortly before finalising their booking arrangements on Pan Am Flight 103 to New York, they learned of an earlier flight from London to New York: namely, Pan Am Flight 101. They consequently were booked and travelled on this flight to New York.

Mr Eglin went on to write in his letter to the Lockerbie victim’s family: 'Since then I have done some more informal prodding. This has led me to the person who made the reservations on behalf of the South African foreign minister Pik Botha and his entourage. This person assures me that he and no-one else was responsible for the reservations, and the reservation made in South Africa for the South African group was originally made on PA 101, departing London at 11:00 on 21 December 1988. It was never made on PA 103 and consequently was never changed. He made the reservation on PA 101 because it was the most convenient flight connecting with [ South African Airways ] flight SA 234 arriving at Heathrow at 07:20 on 21 December 1988.

Mr Eglin gave the victim’s family the assurance that he had 'every reason to trust the person referred to' since he had been given a copy of 'rough working notes and extracts from his personal diary of those days.' In his letter Mr Eglin wrote: 'In the circumstances, I have to accept that an assertion that the reservations of the South African group were either made or changed as a result of warnings that might have been received, is not correct'.

Accordingly, I should be very grateful if you would consider contacting Mr Eglin for the required information.

Best wishes,

Patrick H.

From Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown in 2010

--- On Thu, 11/3/10, Gordon Brown <gordondouglasbrown@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Gordon Brown <gordondouglasbrown@yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: Colin Eglin

To: "Patrick Haseldine" <patrick.haseldine@btinternet.com>

Cc: "Jim Swire" <drjimswire@aol.com>

Date: Thursday, 11 March, 2010, 14:56

Dear Patrick

In the society pages of a local newspaper, I noticed Colin Eglin is hearty and well and attending social functions in Cape Town.

If contacted by a Lockerbie victims association or family member, he might be willing to supply the name of the person who booked Pik Botha's flights and also the name of the Lockerbie victim's family he wrote to in 1996 in connection with this matter.

He is a friendly fellow by all accounts and if the request comes from someone having a legitimate and concerned interest in this matter, I'm sure he will oblige. He can be contacted on the telephone number I gave you.

Kindest regards

Gordon

 

Documents by Ludwig De Braeckeleer

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Bloggers Under Siege - Craig Murray Charged with Contempt of Court	blog post	27 April 2020	Deep state Craig Murray Abdelbaset al-Megrahi The Establishment Alex Salmond Hillary Clinton "Philip Cross"	From Lockerbie to the Russia Hoax, Craig Murray has of course upset people in high-places, including some who work for Intelligence Agencies.
Document:Dag Hammarskjöld - US, UK and South Africa still withholding crucial information	Article	10 October 2019	GCHQ National Security Agency Dag Hammarskjöld Jan van Risseghem Crypto AG Mohamed Chande Othman	“Communications sent from the CX-52 cryptographic machine used by Dag Hammarskjöld appear to have been intercepted by British and United States signals and intelligence agencies as a result of a secret interception and decryption setting that those agencies held that enabled them to intercept surreptitiously.”
Document:Olof Palme — South African Spies Likely Murdered Sweden Prime Minister	Article	12 March 2018	Olof Palme/Assassination Craig Williamson Neels van Tonder	Top Secret Apartheid Intelligence Report says that Olof Palme must “now be seen as an enemy of the State”
Document:PT35B - The Most Expensive Forgery in History	Article	18 October 2017	Margaret Thatcher Richard Marquise Stuart Henderson Thomas Thurman Alan Feraday Thomas Hayes Edwin Bollier John Orr Colin Boyd Lockerbie Bombing/Official Narrative Gideon Levy Marwan Khreesat George H. W. Bush Brighton bombing Peter Fraser Pierre Péan Marcello Mega Otto Hostettler Toyota War Edward Marshman Erwin Meister	Ludwig De Braeckeleer proves that the Lockerbie bomb timer fragment PT/35(b) is a "fragment of the imagination"
Document:Salisbury Incident - Skripal Case Investigators Could Learn From The Lockerbie Affair	Article	24 September 2018	Lockerbie Bombing/Official Narrative Marwan Khreesat Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Christopher Andrew Ahmed Jibril Hafez Dalkamoni Novichok Skripal Affair 2018 Amesbury poisonings	Porton Down has been renamed many times: RARDE, DERA, Dstl, but it's still the same damn place.
Document:The Strange Case of the Russian Spy Poisoning: Sergei Skripal	blog post	17 March 2018	Christopher Steele Sergei Skripal Pablo Miller	In any major criminal inquiry one of the basic questions the investigation asks is: who had the means, the motive and the opportunity? Framed in that light, the Russians come a distant fourth behind the other prime suspects: the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies themselves, and those elements of the deep state opposed to Donald Trump.
Document:Wikipedia & the Spooks – The Remake	blog post	22 May 2018	Craig Murray Wikipedia George Galloway Jimmy Wales "Philip Cross" Neil Clark SlimVirgin	In a video interview with George Galloway, journalist Neil Clark explains that "SlimVirgin" is back and teaming up with "Philip Cross". That is subtle or what?
Document:“Former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal May Have Been Poisoned by BZ Nerve Agent”	blog post	16 April 2018	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Novichok Spiez Laboratory BZ Skripal Affair	Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “Former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal May Have Been Poisoned by BZ Nerve Agent”

 

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