The Boeing 747 bound for New York was blown up by a bomb and crashed....
It was the deadliest terrorist attack on American civilians until Sept. 11, 2001. Only one suspect has been convicted, though investigators believe more were involved, and they hope a development in Libya this week will help uncover fresh leads.
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the tragedy....
In 2001, a Libyan intelligence officer was convicted of the bombing; a second Libyan suspect was acquitted. But investigators believe that others were involved and have expressed hopes that the 2011 toppling of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy would bring progress in the case, which remains open. On Monday, Libya appointed two prosecutors to help the investigation. And Robert Mueller, who was FBI director at the time of the bombing, said in a BBC documentary this week that he believes arrests are forthcoming.
Many of the families were angry at what they saw as a cursory investigation at the time and became activists, the Corys and Boulangers among them. On the symbolic 103d day after the bombing, they demonstrated in front of the White House. They have testified before Congress, given speeches, traveled to Lockerbie.
“If it wasn’t for Bill Clinton, we wouldn’t have gotten the two bombers out of Libya for the trial,” says Cory. But the Corys and Boulangers remain bitter over the lack of transparency and communication in those early years under President George H.W. Bush....
Related: LOCKERBIE IS ABOUT HEROIN
And hiding the CIA's role in the bombing.
But they also feel that much more could still be done to improve airline safety, and believe the airline industry has worked to stifle some of those changes.
Most of all, the Corys and the Boulangers remain grateful to the Scottish people and police. More than 65,000 personal items were found on the ground. Lockerbie women laundered every article of clothing and had them wrapped in tissue paper and delivered — by the postmaster in each victim’s town — to the survivors.
“Scott’s luggage was almost torn to shreds, but we got almost all of his clothes,” says John. “My oldest son wears his watch.”
The holidays, of course, are the hardest time, and a quarter century has done little to ease the pain. What would their child have been like in middle age? Would he or she have had a family by now?
Those families deserve the truth no matter how painful.
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Instead it is used for propaganda value to support the terrorist narrative:
"Victims of plane bombing honored; US, Britain mark 25th anniversary" by Eric Tucker | Associated Press, December 22, 2013
ARLINGTON, Va. — Families of some of the 270 people who died in an airliner bombing 25 years ago gathered for memorial services Saturday in the United States and Britain, honoring victims of a terror attack that killed dozens of American college students and created instant havoc in the Scottish town where wreckage of the plane rained down.
Bagpipes played and wreaths were laid in the Scottish town of Lockerbie and mourners gathered for a moment of silence at London’s Westminster Abbey, while Attorney General Eric Holder told victims’ relatives at Arlington National Cemetery that they should take comfort in their unity even if time cannot erase their pain....
The events marked the 25th anniversary of the explosion of Pan Am 103, a New York-bound flight that exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas, including 35 Syracuse University students participating in a study abroad program. The attack, caused by a bomb packed into a suitcase, killed all 259 people aboard the plane, and 11 others on the ground.
The Arlington ceremony took place beside a cairn of 270 blocks of red Scottish sandstone, the nation’s official memorial to the attack. Wreaths flanked the structure, taps was played, and victims’ relatives recited the names of the people killed....
One man — former Libyan intelligence official Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — was convicted of the bombing, and a second Libyan suspect was acquitted of all charges. Megrahi was given a life sentence, but Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in Tripoli last year.
Word is the CIA killed him.
Many questions remain unanswered about the attack, but the governments of Britain, the United States, and Libya on Saturday issued a joint statement saying they will cooperate to reveal ‘‘the full facts’’ of the case.
Really? That would be a first!
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That was where the article ended?
Then there is the strange death of Shokri Ghanem; however, I no longer have questions about Lockerbie because "prosecutors have always believed Megrahi did not act alone."
And that is the last word on Lockerbie.
Actually, no it is not: MORE EVIDENCE ON LOCKERBIE APPEARS TO IMPLICATE THE CIA
Sure seeing Lockerbie in a different light looking back!
Also see: Globe Tells the Truth About TWA 800
Thus we must conclude we are never told the truth about plane crashes no matter how innocent the circumstances must seem.
