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Within a few weeks of those December 1988 newspaper reports, Bernt Carlsson's name would hardly ever be mentioned again by the {{ccm}} in the Lockerbie context.  
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Nicknamed [[Sir Cover-up]] Cabinet Secretary Sir [[Jeremy Heywood]] has been accused of suppressing ‘politically sensitive information’ by delaying the release into the public domain of government files dealing with the bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]].<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3378245/For-eyes-Secrecy-row-Whitehall-refuses-release-Cabinet-files-time-50-years.html "For their eyes only... Secrecy row as Whitehall refuses to release Cabinet files in full for first time in 50 years"]</ref>
  
===Nelson Mandela accused===
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==Nelson Mandela accused==
 
[[File:Pik_Botha_1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Pik Botha]], apartheid South Africa's foreign minister]]
 
[[File:Pik_Botha_1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Pik Botha]], apartheid South Africa's foreign minister]]
Three weeks after the [[Lockerbie Bombing|Lockerbie disaster]], the apartheid regime accused [[Nelson Mandela]] and the [[ANC]] of masterminding the sabotage of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. This accusation was made on 11 January 1989 by South African Foreign Minister [[Pik Botha]] who had travelled to Stockholm in Sweden with other foreign dignitaries – including UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – to attend the memorial service of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, [[Bernt Carlsson]].<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4689149700934&l=0b52de0fed "Lockerbie: [[Bernt Carlsson]]'s secret meeting in London"]</ref> Interviewed by Sue MacGregor on BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme'', Pik Botha alleged that he and a 22-strong South African delegation, who were booked to fly from London to New York on 21 December 1988, had been targeted by the ANC. However, having been alerted to these ANC plans to kill him, Pik Botha said he managed to outsmart them by taking the earlier Pan Am Flight 101 from Heathrow to JFK, New York.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3J.jpg "ANC as the fall-guys for [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]]"] [[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter to ''The Guardian'', 22 April 1992</ref> Pik Botha's claim to have been booked to travel on [[Pan Am Flight 103]] was later shown to be false.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1952368883124&l=30069eb4a1 "Why the Lockerbie flight booking subterfuge, Mr Botha?"]</ref>
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Three weeks after the [[Lockerbie Bombing|Lockerbie disaster]], the apartheid regime accused [[Nelson Mandela]] and the [[ANC]] of masterminding the sabotage of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. This accusation was made on 11 January 1989 by South African Foreign Minister [[Pik Botha]] who had travelled to Stockholm in Sweden with other foreign dignitaries – including UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – to attend the memorial service of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, [[Bernt Carlsson]].<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4689149700934&l=0b52de0fed "Lockerbie: Bernt Carlsson's secret meeting in London"]</ref> Interviewed by Sue MacGregor on BBC Radio 4’s ''Today Programme'', Pik Botha alleged that he and a 22-strong South African delegation, who were booked to fly from London to New York on 21 December 1988, had been targeted by the ANC. However, having been alerted to these ANC plans to kill him, Pik Botha said he managed to outsmart them by taking the earlier Pan Am Flight 101 from Heathrow to JFK, New York.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3J.jpg "ANC as the fall-guys for [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]]"] [[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter to ''The Guardian'', 22 April 1992</ref> Pik Botha's claim to have been booked to travel on [[Pan Am Flight 103]] was later shown to be false.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1952368883124&l=30069eb4a1 "Why the Lockerbie flight booking subterfuge, Mr Botha?"]</ref>
  
===[[P W Botha|President Botha]] quits===
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==P. W. Botha quits==
 
[[File:President_Botha_and_PM_Thatcher.jpg|360px|thumb|right|President [[P W Botha]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1984]]
 
[[File:President_Botha_and_PM_Thatcher.jpg|360px|thumb|right|President [[P W Botha]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1984]]
 
On 18 January 1989, [[P W Botha|President P W Botha]] was reported to have suffered a mild stroke which prevented him from attending a meeting with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989.<ref>''The New York Times'' 22 January 1989 "Botha suffers mild stroke"</ref> On 2 February 1989, [[P W Botha]] resigned as leader of the National Party (NP) anticipating his nominee – finance minister Barend du Plessis – would succeed him. Instead, the NP's parliamentary caucus selected as leader education minister F W de Klerk, who moved quickly to consolidate his position within the party. In March 1989, the NP elected de Klerk as state president but Botha refused to resign, saying in a television address that the constitution entitled him to remain in office until March 1990 and that he was even considering running for another five-year term. Following a series of acrimonious meetings in Cape Town, and five days after UN Security Council Resolution 435 was implemented in Namibia on 1 April 1989, Botha and de Klerk reached a compromise: Botha would retire after the parliamentary elections in September, allowing de Klerk to take over as president. However, [[P W Botha]] resigned from the state presidency abruptly on 14 August 1989 complaining that he had not been consulted by de Klerk over his scheduled visit to see president Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: "The [[ANC]] is enjoying the protection of president Kaunda and is planning insurgency activities against South Africa from Lusaka," Botha declared on nationwide television. He said he had asked the cabinet what reason he should give the public for abruptly leaving office. "They replied I could use my health as an excuse. To this, I replied that I am not prepared to leave on a lie. It is evident to me that after all these years of my best efforts for the National Party and for the government of this country, as well as the security of our country, I am being ignored by ministers serving in my cabinet."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/s_africa/stories/botha0889.htm Botha Quits, Criticizes Successor]</ref>
 
On 18 January 1989, [[P W Botha|President P W Botha]] was reported to have suffered a mild stroke which prevented him from attending a meeting with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989.<ref>''The New York Times'' 22 January 1989 "Botha suffers mild stroke"</ref> On 2 February 1989, [[P W Botha]] resigned as leader of the National Party (NP) anticipating his nominee – finance minister Barend du Plessis – would succeed him. Instead, the NP's parliamentary caucus selected as leader education minister F W de Klerk, who moved quickly to consolidate his position within the party. In March 1989, the NP elected de Klerk as state president but Botha refused to resign, saying in a television address that the constitution entitled him to remain in office until March 1990 and that he was even considering running for another five-year term. Following a series of acrimonious meetings in Cape Town, and five days after UN Security Council Resolution 435 was implemented in Namibia on 1 April 1989, Botha and de Klerk reached a compromise: Botha would retire after the parliamentary elections in September, allowing de Klerk to take over as president. However, [[P W Botha]] resigned from the state presidency abruptly on 14 August 1989 complaining that he had not been consulted by de Klerk over his scheduled visit to see president Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: "The [[ANC]] is enjoying the protection of president Kaunda and is planning insurgency activities against South Africa from Lusaka," Botha declared on nationwide television. He said he had asked the cabinet what reason he should give the public for abruptly leaving office. "They replied I could use my health as an excuse. To this, I replied that I am not prepared to leave on a lie. It is evident to me that after all these years of my best efforts for the National Party and for the government of this country, as well as the security of our country, I am being ignored by ministers serving in my cabinet."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/s_africa/stories/botha0889.htm Botha Quits, Criticizes Successor]</ref>
  
===Thatcher visits Namibia===
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==Thatcher visits Namibia==
 
[[File:Rossing_Uranium_Mine.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Rössing Uranium Mine]] ]]
 
[[File:Rossing_Uranium_Mine.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Rössing Uranium Mine]] ]]
 
At the end of March 1989, [[Margaret Thatcher]] and the rising star in Conservative Research Department, [[David Cameron]], visited apartheid South Africa.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-camerons-freebie-to-apartheid-south-africa-1674367.html "Cameron's freebie to apartheid South Africa"]</ref> The past and future British Prime Ministers made a point of visiting the [[Rössing Uranium Mine]] in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 435). In 1989, the Rössing mine was jointly owned by Rio Tinto Group and the Iranian Government, and was supplying uranium to develop Iran’s nuclear programme. Mrs Thatcher was so impressed with the [[Rössing Uranium Mine#Margaret Thatcher pays a visit|Rössing Uranium Mine]] that she declared it made her "proud to be British", a sentiment echoed by David Cameron.<ref>[http://www.radiobridge.net/www/nam/rossing.html "Rössing Uranium Mine"]</ref>
 
At the end of March 1989, [[Margaret Thatcher]] and the rising star in Conservative Research Department, [[David Cameron]], visited apartheid South Africa.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-camerons-freebie-to-apartheid-south-africa-1674367.html "Cameron's freebie to apartheid South Africa"]</ref> The past and future British Prime Ministers made a point of visiting the [[Rössing Uranium Mine]] in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 435). In 1989, the Rössing mine was jointly owned by Rio Tinto Group and the Iranian Government, and was supplying uranium to develop Iran’s nuclear programme. Mrs Thatcher was so impressed with the [[Rössing Uranium Mine#Margaret Thatcher pays a visit|Rössing Uranium Mine]] that she declared it made her "proud to be British", a sentiment echoed by David Cameron.<ref>[http://www.radiobridge.net/www/nam/rossing.html "Rössing Uranium Mine"]</ref>
  
====Pressure on UN's man====
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===Pressure on UN's man===
 
[[File:PatrickHaseldine3E.jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Guardian'' letter of 5 August 1991]]
 
[[File:PatrickHaseldine3E.jpg|200px|right|thumb|''Guardian'' letter of 5 August 1991]]
Extract from [[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter to ''The Guardian'' of August 5, 1991:
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Extract from [[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter to ''The Guardian'' of August 5, 1991, entitled ''Missing diplomatic links and the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]]'':
:'''Missing diplomatic links and the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]]'''
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:"On April 1, 1989 Mrs Thatcher put pressure on UN Special Representative in Namibia, [[Martti Ahtisaari]], to permit the South African Defence Force (SADF) to take action against SWAPO soldiers who were peacefully returning to Namibia to vote in the 1989 independence elections. As a result, as many as 308 SWAPO soldiers were killed - ''shot in the back'' according to former SADF major Nico Basson.
:"On April 1, 1989 [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]] put pressure on UN Special Representative in Namibia, [[Martti Ahtisaari]], to permit the South African Defence Force (SADF) to take action against SWAPO soldiers who were peacefully returning to Namibia to vote in the 1989 independence elections. As a result, as many as 308 SWAPO soldiers were killed - ''shot in the back'' according to former SADF major Nico Basson.
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:"Whether Mrs Thatcher could have persuaded UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, to agree to such treachery we shall never know since [[Bernt Carlsson|Mr Carlsson]] was assassinated four months earlier, on December 21, 1988.
:"Whether Mrs Thatcher could have persuaded UN Commissioner for Namibia, [[Bernt Carlsson]], to agree to such treachery we shall never know since [[Bernt Carlsson|Mr Carlsson]] was assassinated four months earlier, on December 21, 1988.
 
 
:"It may not be entirely coincidental that on the same day (July 25, 1991) as South Africa's Foreign Minister, [[Pik Botha]], admitted the illicit funding of anti-SWAPO political parties in Namibia, BBC Radio Four's ''Today Programme'' carried an interview about the Scottish police investigation into the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie disaster]], in which [[Bernt Carlsson|Mr Carlsson]] perished. According to the interview, the criminal investigation has just been concluded and we are now asked to believe that Libyan intelligence were responsible.
 
:"It may not be entirely coincidental that on the same day (July 25, 1991) as South Africa's Foreign Minister, [[Pik Botha]], admitted the illicit funding of anti-SWAPO political parties in Namibia, BBC Radio Four's ''Today Programme'' carried an interview about the Scottish police investigation into the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie disaster]], in which [[Bernt Carlsson|Mr Carlsson]] perished. According to the interview, the criminal investigation has just been concluded and we are now asked to believe that Libyan intelligence were responsible.
:"In the light of Major Basson's evidence (detailed by Phillip van Niekerk's article, ''Guardian'', July 27) and [[Pik Botha]]'s admission, I think that, even at this late stage, the Scottish police should reopen their investigation and look for a South African connection to the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3E.jpg "Missing diplomatic links and the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]]"]</ref>
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:"In the light of Major Basson's evidence (detailed by Phillip van Niekerk's article, ''Guardian'', July 27) and Pik Botha's admission, I think that, even at this late stage, the Scottish police should reopen their investigation and look for a South African connection to the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3E.jpg "Missing diplomatic links and the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie tragedy]]"]</ref>
  
====Secret nuclear deal====
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===Secret nuclear deal===
 
It has recently been reported that [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[David Cameron]] concluded a secret nuclear deal with the apartheid regime during their visit to South Africa in 1989.<ref>[http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/4576-the-us-and-uk-lost-three-nuclear-weapons-each-part-3 "How the US and UK 'lost' three nuclear weapons"]</ref>
 
It has recently been reported that [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[David Cameron]] concluded a secret nuclear deal with the apartheid regime during their visit to South Africa in 1989.<ref>[http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/peter-eyre/4576-the-us-and-uk-lost-three-nuclear-weapons-each-part-3 "How the US and UK 'lost' three nuclear weapons"]</ref>
  
===[[Patrick Haseldine#Lockerbie cover-up|Stateside silence]]===
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==Stateside silence==
[[Ronald Reagan]], the outgoing President, was still smarting after having his veto overridden in 1986 by the US Congress of the [[Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act]] which, ''inter alia'', banned South African Airways from flying to the United States. Plus, according to [[Francis Boyle|Professor Francis Boyle]]'s recent book, [[Ronald Reagan|President Reagan]] had some old scores that he wanted to settle with [[Colonel Gaddafi]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Destroying-Libya-World-Order-Three-Decade/dp/0985335378 "Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the [[Gaddafi]] Revolution"]</ref>
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{{FA|Patrick Haseldine#Lockerbie cover-up}}
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[[Ronald Reagan]], the outgoing [[US president]], was still smarting after having his veto overridden in 1986 by the [[US Congress]] of the [[Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act]] which, ''inter alia'', banned South African Airways from flying to the United States. Plus, according to [[Francis Boyle|Professor Francis Boyle]]'s recent book, [[Ronald Reagan|President Reagan]] had some old scores that he wanted to settle with [[Muammar Gaddafi]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Destroying-Libya-World-Order-Three-Decade/dp/0985335378 "Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the [[Gaddafi]] Revolution"]</ref>
 
[[File:Reagan_Thatcher.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Discussing [[Iran Air Flight 655]] in the White House library: [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] ]]
 
[[File:Reagan_Thatcher.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Discussing [[Iran Air Flight 655]] in the White House library: [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] ]]
 
So, on 28 December 1988, when there was as yet no evidence of any country's culpability for the Lockerbie bombing and in one of the last acts of his Presidency, [[Ronald Reagan]] extended US sanctions against Libya and threatened renewed bombing raids on Tripoli and Benghazi. Vice-President [[George H W Bush]] had won the 1988 US presidential election easily defeating Democratic Party challenger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis Michael Dukakis] (who would have branded [[P W Botha]]'s apartheid South Africa a 'terrorist state'<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us/dukakis-backers-agree-platform-will-call-south-africa-terrorist.html Dukakis Backers Agree Platform Will Call South Africa 'Terrorist']</ref>) and was sworn in as US President on 20 January 1989.
 
So, on 28 December 1988, when there was as yet no evidence of any country's culpability for the Lockerbie bombing and in one of the last acts of his Presidency, [[Ronald Reagan]] extended US sanctions against Libya and threatened renewed bombing raids on Tripoli and Benghazi. Vice-President [[George H W Bush]] had won the 1988 US presidential election easily defeating Democratic Party challenger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis Michael Dukakis] (who would have branded [[P W Botha]]'s apartheid South Africa a 'terrorist state'<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us/dukakis-backers-agree-platform-will-call-south-africa-terrorist.html Dukakis Backers Agree Platform Will Call South Africa 'Terrorist']</ref>) and was sworn in as US President on 20 January 1989.
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Drawing upon his previous experience at the United Nations and as Director of the [[CIA]], and maintaining his refusal to apologise for the US Navy's destruction of the [[Iran Air Flight 655|Iranian Airbus]] in July 1988, [[George H W Bush|President Bush Sr]] then arranged for [[Muammar Gaddafi]] to be 'fitted up' at the UN Security Council for the sabotage of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. According to British investigative journalist [[Paul Foot]]: "In mid-March 1989, three months after Lockerbie, [[George H W Bush|George Bush]] rang [[Margaret Thatcher]] to warn her to 'cool it' on the subject."<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1972212699207&l=09e4b17aef "Lockerbie: CIA 'fitted up' Gaddafi at the UN"]</ref>
 
Drawing upon his previous experience at the United Nations and as Director of the [[CIA]], and maintaining his refusal to apologise for the US Navy's destruction of the [[Iran Air Flight 655|Iranian Airbus]] in July 1988, [[George H W Bush|President Bush Sr]] then arranged for [[Muammar Gaddafi]] to be 'fitted up' at the UN Security Council for the sabotage of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. According to British investigative journalist [[Paul Foot]]: "In mid-March 1989, three months after Lockerbie, [[George H W Bush|George Bush]] rang [[Margaret Thatcher]] to warn her to 'cool it' on the subject."<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1972212699207&l=09e4b17aef "Lockerbie: CIA 'fitted up' Gaddafi at the UN"]</ref>
  
===[[Robert Black#Blackout of Mandela blueprint|British Blackout]]===
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==British Blackout==
 
[[File:Tiny_Rowland.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Tiny Rowland]], UK coordinator]]
 
[[File:Tiny_Rowland.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Tiny Rowland]], UK coordinator]]
 
[[File:Professor_Black.JPG|300px|thumb|right|[[Robert Black|Professor Robert Black QC]] ]]
 
[[File:Professor_Black.JPG|300px|thumb|right|[[Robert Black|Professor Robert Black QC]] ]]
After years of sleuthing, [[Emeritus Professor of Lockerbie Studies]] [[Patrick Haseldine]] eventually identified British mining magnate, ''Observer'' newspaper owner and [[MI6]] operative [[Tiny Rowland]] as the UK coordinator of the Lockerbie cover-up.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4058824983210&l=0031ccc6ce "[[Tiny Rowland]], Lonmin and Lockerbie"]</ref>
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After years of sleuthing, [[Patrick Haseldine]] announced that UK mining magnate, ''Observer'' newspaper owner and [[MI6]] operative<ref>[http://www.nickdavies.net/1990/08/01/tiny-rowland-portrait-of-the-bastard-as-a-rebel/ "Tiny Rowland – portrait of the bastard as a rebel"]</ref> [[Tiny Rowland]] was the UK coordinator of the Lockerbie cover-up.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4058824983210&l=0031ccc6ce "[[Tiny Rowland]], Lonmin and Lockerbie"]</ref> Haseldine states that Rowland recruited Emeritus Professor of Scots Law [[Robert Black]] to organise the British Blackout and to frustrate [[Nelson Mandela]]’s plans for Lockerbie justice.
 
 
Haseldine alleges that [[Tiny Rowland]] recruited Emeritus Professor of Scots Law [[Robert Black]] to organise the British Blackout and to frustrate all of [[Nelson Mandela]]’s plans for Lockerbie justice.
 
  
In January 1992, [[Mandela]] outlined his blueprint for the Lockerbie trial:
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In January 1992, Mandela outlined his blueprint for the Lockerbie trial:
*If no extradition treaty exists between the countries concerned, the trial must be conducted in the country where the   accused were arrested;
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*If no extradition treaty exists between the countries concerned, the trial must be conducted in the country where the accused were arrested;
 
*The trial should be conducted in a neutral country by independent judges;
 
*The trial should be conducted in a neutral country by independent judges;
 
*The trial should be conducted at The Hague by an international court of justice.
 
*The trial should be conducted at The Hague by an international court of justice.
Five years later, [[President Mandela]] emphasised at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh that '''"no one nation should be complainant, prosecutor and judge"''' in the Lockerbie case.
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Five years later, President Mandela emphasised at the [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] (CHOGM) in Edinburgh that '''"no one nation should be complainant, prosecutor and judge"''' in the Lockerbie case.
  
By 1999, the so-called "architect of the Lockerbie trial" had managed to blackout the whole [[Mandela]] blueprint. [[Professor Black]]:
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By 1999, the so-called "architect of the Lockerbie trial" had managed to blackout the whole Mandela blueprint. Professor Black:
 
*ensured that the Lockerbie trial was not held in a neutral country. Instead, he arranged for the trial to be conducted from May 2000 to January 2001 at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in the Netherlands which, for the duration of the trial, became British territory;
 
*ensured that the Lockerbie trial was not held in a neutral country. Instead, he arranged for the trial to be conducted from May 2000 to January 2001 at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in the Netherlands which, for the duration of the trial, became British territory;
*decreed that Scotland’s Crown Office would be the ‘complainant’ at the trial;
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*decreed that Scotland’s [[Crown Office]] would be the ‘complainant’ at the trial;
 
*arranged for Scotland’s Lord Advocate [[Colin Boyd]] to be the ‘prosecutor’ at the trial; and,
 
*arranged for Scotland’s Lord Advocate [[Colin Boyd]] to be the ‘prosecutor’ at the trial; and,
 
*insisted that – instead of ‘independent judges’ at the trial – all four Judges (Lords Sutherland, Coulsfield, MacLean and Abernethy) had to be from Scotland.
 
*insisted that – instead of ‘independent judges’ at the trial – all four Judges (Lords Sutherland, Coulsfield, MacLean and Abernethy) had to be from Scotland.
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Although one of the two accused Libyans was found not guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Haseldine alleges it was thanks to Professor Black that the other Libyan, [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]], was found guilty.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4009030178371&l=6662cb7fb9 "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"]</ref>
 
Although one of the two accused Libyans was found not guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Haseldine alleges it was thanks to Professor Black that the other Libyan, [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]], was found guilty.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4009030178371&l=6662cb7fb9 "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"]</ref>
  
'''Haseldine says:'''
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''Haseldine comments that:''
 
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.... so for the past 20 years, [[Robert Black|Professor Robert Black]] has been suppressing the truth about the [[Lockerbie Bombing|Lockerbie disaster]], thus delaying justice for the 270 victims of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] and their relatives. Prof Black was supported in his attempt to blackout apartheid South Africa’s targeting of [[Bernt Carlsson]] on [[Pan Am Flight 103]] by ''inter alia'' these assets of British intelligence:
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...for the past 20 years, [[Robert Black|Professor Robert Black]] has been suppressing the truth about the [[Lockerbie Bombing|Lockerbie disaster]], thus delaying justice for the 270 victims of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] and their relatives. Prof Black was supported in his attempt to blackout apartheid South Africa’s targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 by ''inter alia'' these assets of British intelligence:
  
 
:'''[[John Ashton]]''' (Author, producer and researcher, see: [[The Maltese Double Cross]]<ref>[http://edsblogcity.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/blog-post.html "Commentary on ''The Maltese Double Cross''"]</ref>; the 2001 book "Cover-up of Convenience" by [[John Ashton]] and [[Ian Ferguson]]<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2001/jun/17/politics "Cover-up of Convenience"]</ref>; the 2012 book "Megrahi; You are my Jury" by [[John Ashton]]<ref>[http://www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net/ "Megrahi: You are my Jury"]</ref>; the 2012 article "Was Libya really behind it?" with [[John Ashton]]<ref>[http://www.beobachter.ch/justiz-behoerde/gesetze-recht/artikel/lockerbie_steckte-wirklich-libyen-dahinter/ "Was Libya really behind it?"]</ref>; and a new book "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters" that was published by Birlinn on 3 October 2013<ref>[http://www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net/?p=794 "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters"]</ref>);
 
:'''[[John Ashton]]''' (Author, producer and researcher, see: [[The Maltese Double Cross]]<ref>[http://edsblogcity.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/blog-post.html "Commentary on ''The Maltese Double Cross''"]</ref>; the 2001 book "Cover-up of Convenience" by [[John Ashton]] and [[Ian Ferguson]]<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2001/jun/17/politics "Cover-up of Convenience"]</ref>; the 2012 book "Megrahi; You are my Jury" by [[John Ashton]]<ref>[http://www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net/ "Megrahi: You are my Jury"]</ref>; the 2012 article "Was Libya really behind it?" with [[John Ashton]]<ref>[http://www.beobachter.ch/justiz-behoerde/gesetze-recht/artikel/lockerbie_steckte-wirklich-libyen-dahinter/ "Was Libya really behind it?"]</ref>; and a new book "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters" that was published by Birlinn on 3 October 2013<ref>[http://www.megrahiyouaremyjury.net/?p=794 "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters"]</ref>);
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:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/27/alan-george-libel-case Dr Alan George]''' (Middle East academic, recruited by solicitors Eversheds to reinforce the defence of [[Megrahi]]'s co-accused Lamin Khalifah Fhimah<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/27/alan-george-libel-case "Alan George libel case]</ref>);
 
:'''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/27/alan-george-libel-case Dr Alan George]''' (Middle East academic, recruited by solicitors Eversheds to reinforce the defence of [[Megrahi]]'s co-accused Lamin Khalifah Fhimah<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/27/alan-george-libel-case "Alan George libel case]</ref>);
  
:'''[[Dr Morag Kerr]]''' (Deputy Secretary of ''[[Justice for Megrahi]]'' campaign group, see <ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1607665385752&l=bb396e30f0 "Dr Morag Kerr should drop all this cloak and dagger 'Rolfe' nonsense"]</ref>, her book "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies" was published in December 2013<ref>[http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2499 "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies"]</ref>); and,
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:'''[[Dr Morag Kerr]]''' (Deputy Secretary of ''Justice for Megrahi'' campaign group, see <ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1607665385752&l=bb396e30f0 "Dr Morag Kerr should drop all this cloak and dagger 'Rolfe' nonsense"]</ref>, her book "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies" was published in December 2013<ref>[http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=2499 "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies"]</ref>); and,
  
 
:'''[http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Caustic_Logic Adam Larson]''' (Associate of [[Morag Kerr|Dr Kerr]] and owner of ''The Lockerbie Divide'' website<ref>[http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/permanent-top-post-and-start-point.html "The Lockerbie Divide"]</ref>);
 
:'''[http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Caustic_Logic Adam Larson]''' (Associate of [[Morag Kerr|Dr Kerr]] and owner of ''The Lockerbie Divide'' website<ref>[http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/permanent-top-post-and-start-point.html "The Lockerbie Divide"]</ref>);
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'''Patrick Haseldine concludes: "It is high time that this 'Blackout over Lockerbie' was illuminated and dispelled."'''<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3870955126581&l=5950a6622d "Blackout over Lockerbie"]</ref>
 
'''Patrick Haseldine concludes: "It is high time that this 'Blackout over Lockerbie' was illuminated and dispelled."'''<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3870955126581&l=5950a6622d "Blackout over Lockerbie"]</ref>
  
====Blackballing [[Patrick Haseldine]]====
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====Blackballing Patrick Haseldine====
 
On 14 January 2014, these three comments appeared on [[Professor Black]]'s ''The Lockerbie Case'' blog in relation to an article by William Blum in the ''Foreign Policy Journal'' of 10 January 2014:<ref>[http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/10/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case-closed/ "The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Case closed?"]</ref>
 
On 14 January 2014, these three comments appeared on [[Professor Black]]'s ''The Lockerbie Case'' blog in relation to an article by William Blum in the ''Foreign Policy Journal'' of 10 January 2014:<ref>[http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/10/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case-closed/ "The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Case closed?"]</ref>
  
 
1. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389705588494#c6112780789018761527 pesceman] said: So we know [[al-Megrahi]] was innocent. Of that there is no doubt. Why was the Heathrow break-in totally ignored from the very start - the Anti-Terrorism Police in the UK don't seem able to recall the event at all???? It is pretty obvious that the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] were wholly responsible and assisted in the cover up by UK Intelligence and UK Police.
 
1. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389705588494#c6112780789018761527 pesceman] said: So we know [[al-Megrahi]] was innocent. Of that there is no doubt. Why was the Heathrow break-in totally ignored from the very start - the Anti-Terrorism Police in the UK don't seem able to recall the event at all???? It is pretty obvious that the South African [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] were wholly responsible and assisted in the cover up by UK Intelligence and UK Police.
  
2. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389712142633#c4264408924745581322 Robert Black] said: It is by no means obvious. And the notion that the [[CCB]] was responsible stems from [[Patrick Haseldine]]'s fevered imagination. There is nothing whatever that counts as evidence to support it. No further comments giving credence to [[Patrick Haseldine|Mr Haseldine]]'s ravings will be accepted on this blog.
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2. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389712142633#c4264408924745581322 Robert Black] said: It is by no means obvious. And the notion that the [[CCB]] was responsible stems from Patrick Haseldine's fevered imagination. There is nothing whatever that counts as evidence to support it. No further comments giving credence to Mr Haseldine's ravings will be accepted on this blog.
  
3. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389713843718#c3375332420145654444 Quincey Riddle] aka [[Robert Forrester]] said: Dear Peaceman, I agree entirely with [[Robert Black]] vis-a-vis the South African theory. [[Patrick Haseldine|Mr Haseldine]] is frankly certifiably doolally and an extremely manipulative individual, whom I felt obliged to expel from [[JFM]] for his conduct. I would be careful too about laying too much store on the issue of the Heathrow break-in as being linked to [[Pan Am 103]], maybe it was maybe it wasn't. In my view, the only significant factor here is that [[COPFS]] appears to have hidden a tree in a forest in terms of the evidence made available to the defence. That from my perspective is as reprehensible as the [[Tony Gauci|Gauci]] payments being denied to the court. [[Robert Forrester|Robert]].
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3. [http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-bombing-of-pan-am-flight-103-case.html?showComment=1389713843718#c3375332420145654444 Quincey Riddle] aka [[Robert Forrester]] said: Dear Peaceman, I agree entirely with [[Robert Black]] vis-a-vis the South African theory. Mr Haseldine is frankly certifiably doolally and an extremely manipulative individual, whom I felt obliged to expel from [[JFM]] for his conduct. I would be careful too about laying too much store on the issue of the Heathrow break-in as being linked to [[Pan Am 103]], maybe it was maybe it wasn't. In my view, the only significant factor here is that [[COPFS]] appears to have hidden a tree in a forest in terms of the evidence made available to the defence. That from my perspective is as reprehensible as the [[Tony Gauci|Gauci]] payments being denied to the court. [[Robert Forrester|Robert]].
 
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Highest profile victim United Nations diplomat Bernt Carlsson
Date21 December 1988 - Present
DescriptionJust a few weeks after the December 1988 newspaper reports, Bernt Carlsson's name was more or less erased from the corporate media reporting of the Lockerbie event.

Nicknamed Sir Cover-up Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has been accused of suppressing ‘politically sensitive information’ by delaying the release into the public domain of government files dealing with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.[1]

Nelson Mandela accused

Pik Botha, apartheid South Africa's foreign minister

Three weeks after the Lockerbie disaster, the apartheid regime accused Nelson Mandela and the ANC of masterminding the sabotage of Pan Am Flight 103. This accusation was made on 11 January 1989 by South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha who had travelled to Stockholm in Sweden with other foreign dignitaries – including UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – to attend the memorial service of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson.[2] Interviewed by Sue MacGregor on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Pik Botha alleged that he and a 22-strong South African delegation, who were booked to fly from London to New York on 21 December 1988, had been targeted by the ANC. However, having been alerted to these ANC plans to kill him, Pik Botha said he managed to outsmart them by taking the earlier Pan Am Flight 101 from Heathrow to JFK, New York.[3] Pik Botha's claim to have been booked to travel on Pan Am Flight 103 was later shown to be false.[4]

P. W. Botha quits

President P W Botha and Margaret Thatcher in 1984

On 18 January 1989, President P W Botha was reported to have suffered a mild stroke which prevented him from attending a meeting with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989.[5] On 2 February 1989, P W Botha resigned as leader of the National Party (NP) anticipating his nominee – finance minister Barend du Plessis – would succeed him. Instead, the NP's parliamentary caucus selected as leader education minister F W de Klerk, who moved quickly to consolidate his position within the party. In March 1989, the NP elected de Klerk as state president but Botha refused to resign, saying in a television address that the constitution entitled him to remain in office until March 1990 and that he was even considering running for another five-year term. Following a series of acrimonious meetings in Cape Town, and five days after UN Security Council Resolution 435 was implemented in Namibia on 1 April 1989, Botha and de Klerk reached a compromise: Botha would retire after the parliamentary elections in September, allowing de Klerk to take over as president. However, P W Botha resigned from the state presidency abruptly on 14 August 1989 complaining that he had not been consulted by de Klerk over his scheduled visit to see president Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: "The ANC is enjoying the protection of president Kaunda and is planning insurgency activities against South Africa from Lusaka," Botha declared on nationwide television. He said he had asked the cabinet what reason he should give the public for abruptly leaving office. "They replied I could use my health as an excuse. To this, I replied that I am not prepared to leave on a lie. It is evident to me that after all these years of my best efforts for the National Party and for the government of this country, as well as the security of our country, I am being ignored by ministers serving in my cabinet."[6]

Thatcher visits Namibia

At the end of March 1989, Margaret Thatcher and the rising star in Conservative Research Department, David Cameron, visited apartheid South Africa.[7] The past and future British Prime Ministers made a point of visiting the Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 435). In 1989, the Rössing mine was jointly owned by Rio Tinto Group and the Iranian Government, and was supplying uranium to develop Iran’s nuclear programme. Mrs Thatcher was so impressed with the Rössing Uranium Mine that she declared it made her "proud to be British", a sentiment echoed by David Cameron.[8]

Pressure on UN's man

Guardian letter of 5 August 1991

Extract from Patrick Haseldine's letter to The Guardian of August 5, 1991, entitled Missing diplomatic links and the Lockerbie tragedy:

"On April 1, 1989 Mrs Thatcher put pressure on UN Special Representative in Namibia, Martti Ahtisaari, to permit the South African Defence Force (SADF) to take action against SWAPO soldiers who were peacefully returning to Namibia to vote in the 1989 independence elections. As a result, as many as 308 SWAPO soldiers were killed - shot in the back according to former SADF major Nico Basson.
"Whether Mrs Thatcher could have persuaded UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, to agree to such treachery we shall never know since Mr Carlsson was assassinated four months earlier, on December 21, 1988.
"It may not be entirely coincidental that on the same day (July 25, 1991) as South Africa's Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, admitted the illicit funding of anti-SWAPO political parties in Namibia, BBC Radio Four's Today Programme carried an interview about the Scottish police investigation into the Lockerbie disaster, in which Mr Carlsson perished. According to the interview, the criminal investigation has just been concluded and we are now asked to believe that Libyan intelligence were responsible.
"In the light of Major Basson's evidence (detailed by Phillip van Niekerk's article, Guardian, July 27) and Pik Botha's admission, I think that, even at this late stage, the Scottish police should reopen their investigation and look for a South African connection to the Lockerbie tragedy.[9]

Secret nuclear deal

It has recently been reported that Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron concluded a secret nuclear deal with the apartheid regime during their visit to South Africa in 1989.[10]

Stateside silence

Full article: Patrick Haseldine#Lockerbie cover-up

Ronald Reagan, the outgoing US president, was still smarting after having his veto overridden in 1986 by the US Congress of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act which, inter alia, banned South African Airways from flying to the United States. Plus, according to Professor Francis Boyle's recent book, President Reagan had some old scores that he wanted to settle with Muammar Gaddafi.[11]

Discussing Iran Air Flight 655 in the White House library: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

So, on 28 December 1988, when there was as yet no evidence of any country's culpability for the Lockerbie bombing and in one of the last acts of his Presidency, Ronald Reagan extended US sanctions against Libya and threatened renewed bombing raids on Tripoli and Benghazi. Vice-President George H W Bush had won the 1988 US presidential election easily defeating Democratic Party challenger Michael Dukakis (who would have branded P W Botha's apartheid South Africa a 'terrorist state'[12]) and was sworn in as US President on 20 January 1989.

Drawing upon his previous experience at the United Nations and as Director of the CIA, and maintaining his refusal to apologise for the US Navy's destruction of the Iranian Airbus in July 1988, President Bush Sr then arranged for Muammar Gaddafi to be 'fitted up' at the UN Security Council for the sabotage of Pan Am Flight 103. According to British investigative journalist Paul Foot: "In mid-March 1989, three months after Lockerbie, George Bush rang Margaret Thatcher to warn her to 'cool it' on the subject."[13]

British Blackout

Tiny Rowland, UK coordinator

After years of sleuthing, Patrick Haseldine announced that UK mining magnate, Observer newspaper owner and MI6 operative[14] Tiny Rowland was the UK coordinator of the Lockerbie cover-up.[15] Haseldine states that Rowland recruited Emeritus Professor of Scots Law Robert Black to organise the British Blackout and to frustrate Nelson Mandela’s plans for Lockerbie justice.

In January 1992, Mandela outlined his blueprint for the Lockerbie trial:

  • If no extradition treaty exists between the countries concerned, the trial must be conducted in the country where the accused were arrested;
  • The trial should be conducted in a neutral country by independent judges;
  • The trial should be conducted at The Hague by an international court of justice.

Five years later, President Mandela emphasised at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh that "no one nation should be complainant, prosecutor and judge" in the Lockerbie case.

By 1999, the so-called "architect of the Lockerbie trial" had managed to blackout the whole Mandela blueprint. Professor Black:

  • ensured that the Lockerbie trial was not held in a neutral country. Instead, he arranged for the trial to be conducted from May 2000 to January 2001 at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in the Netherlands which, for the duration of the trial, became British territory;
  • decreed that Scotland’s Crown Office would be the ‘complainant’ at the trial;
  • arranged for Scotland’s Lord Advocate Colin Boyd to be the ‘prosecutor’ at the trial; and,
  • insisted that – instead of ‘independent judges’ at the trial – all four Judges (Lords Sutherland, Coulsfield, MacLean and Abernethy) had to be from Scotland.

Although one of the two accused Libyans was found not guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Haseldine alleges it was thanks to Professor Black that the other Libyan, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was found guilty.[16]

Haseldine comments that:

...for the past 20 years, Professor Robert Black has been suppressing the truth about the Lockerbie disaster, thus delaying justice for the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and their relatives. Prof Black was supported in his attempt to blackout apartheid South Africa’s targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 by inter alia these assets of British intelligence:

John Ashton (Author, producer and researcher, see: The Maltese Double Cross[17]; the 2001 book "Cover-up of Convenience" by John Ashton and Ian Ferguson[18]; the 2012 book "Megrahi; You are my Jury" by John Ashton[19]; the 2012 article "Was Libya really behind it?" with John Ashton[20]; and a new book "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters" that was published by Birlinn on 3 October 2013[21]);

Ian Ferguson (Author, journalist and researcher, see: The Lockerbie Trial.com website of Professor Black and Ian Ferguson; and the 2009 film Lockerbie Revisited researcher Ian Ferguson[22][23]);

Robert Forrester (Secretary of Justice for Megrahi campaign group[24]);

Professor Andrew Fulton (see: "Former MI6 spy joins Armor Group to hunt down new business"[25]);

Dr Alan George (Middle East academic, recruited by solicitors Eversheds to reinforce the defence of Megrahi's co-accused Lamin Khalifah Fhimah[26]);

Dr Morag Kerr (Deputy Secretary of Justice for Megrahi campaign group, see [27], her book "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies" was published in December 2013[28]); and,

Adam Larson (Associate of Dr Kerr and owner of The Lockerbie Divide website[29]);

Patrick Haseldine concludes: "It is high time that this 'Blackout over Lockerbie' was illuminated and dispelled."[30]

Blackballing Patrick Haseldine

On 14 January 2014, these three comments appeared on Professor Black's The Lockerbie Case blog in relation to an article by William Blum in the Foreign Policy Journal of 10 January 2014:[31]

1. pesceman said: So we know al-Megrahi was innocent. Of that there is no doubt. Why was the Heathrow break-in totally ignored from the very start - the Anti-Terrorism Police in the UK don't seem able to recall the event at all???? It is pretty obvious that the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau were wholly responsible and assisted in the cover up by UK Intelligence and UK Police.

2. Robert Black said: It is by no means obvious. And the notion that the CCB was responsible stems from Patrick Haseldine's fevered imagination. There is nothing whatever that counts as evidence to support it. No further comments giving credence to Mr Haseldine's ravings will be accepted on this blog.

3. Quincey Riddle aka Robert Forrester said: Dear Peaceman, I agree entirely with Robert Black vis-a-vis the South African theory. Mr Haseldine is frankly certifiably doolally and an extremely manipulative individual, whom I felt obliged to expel from JFM for his conduct. I would be careful too about laying too much store on the issue of the Heathrow break-in as being linked to Pan Am 103, maybe it was maybe it wasn't. In my view, the only significant factor here is that COPFS appears to have hidden a tree in a forest in terms of the evidence made available to the defence. That from my perspective is as reprehensible as the Gauci payments being denied to the court. Robert.

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Lucky Escapees from Pan Am Flight 103Article20 October 2018Christopher NicholsonIn this article, Judge Nicholson analyses in forensic detail conflicting claims that former foreign minister Pik Botha had been booked to travel on the doomed Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988. The Judge's analysis concludes by asking whether UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson "was not the real target of those who put the bomb on Pan Am 103."
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  1. "For their eyes only... Secrecy row as Whitehall refuses to release Cabinet files in full for first time in 50 years"
  2. "Lockerbie: Bernt Carlsson's secret meeting in London"
  3. "ANC as the fall-guys for Lockerbie bombing" Patrick Haseldine's letter to The Guardian, 22 April 1992
  4. "Why the Lockerbie flight booking subterfuge, Mr Botha?"
  5. The New York Times 22 January 1989 "Botha suffers mild stroke"
  6. Botha Quits, Criticizes Successor
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  15. "Tiny Rowland, Lonmin and Lockerbie"
  16. "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"
  17. "Commentary on The Maltese Double Cross"
  18. "Cover-up of Convenience"
  19. "Megrahi: You are my Jury"
  20. "Was Libya really behind it?"
  21. "Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters"
  22. "Lockerbie Revisited"
  23. "Lockerbie Cover-Upper Ian Ferguson"
  24. [Robert Forrester Facebook comment"
  25. "Former MI6 spy joins Armor Group to hunt down new business"
  26. "Alan George libel case
  27. "Dr Morag Kerr should drop all this cloak and dagger 'Rolfe' nonsense"
  28. "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies"
  29. "The Lockerbie Divide"
  30. "Blackout over Lockerbie"
  31. "The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Case closed?"