CIA Faked Lockerbie ’Evidence’

Former Scottish police chief confirms U.S. wrote the script to incriminate Libya

by Jennifer Monroe

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — (OfficialWire) — 08/29/05 — A retired Scottish police officer has come forward to provide a signed statement corroborating the belief that vital evidence used to convict Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi for mass murder in 2001 was fabricated.

Al-Megrahi was found guilty for the murder of 270 people who died when on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland.

Al-Megrahi was eventually convicted after the prosecution successfully argued that he had placed the explosive, hidden in a suitcase, on a flight from Malta to Frankfurt, where it was transferred onto the Pan Am plane to New York via Heathrow.

Speaking to investigative reporter Ian Ferguson in March 2000, Noel Koch, who headed anti-terrorism efforts for the U.S. Defense Department from 1981 to 1986 said: "It was decided by the two governments, by the United States and the United Kingdom, that Libya had been responsible for the bombing of Pan Am 103. "I have never believed that, and I don’t believe the case will stand against the Libyans."

While the identity of the retired officer has not yet been made public, it is known that he was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS), and therefore achieved the rank of assistant chief constable at least.

In 2003, a retired CIA officer made a statement to Al-Megrahi’s lawyers in which he said evidence against their client had been planted.

It has long been rumored that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by U.S. agents for political reasons.

In September 2003, the UN Security Council lifted sanctions against Libya, which allowed the release of up to $2.7 billion to the families of the 270 people killed. Libya paid each family $8 million in compensation and was scheduled to pay a further $2 million to each of the victims’ families. But because the U.S. State Department refused to remove Libya from a list of states thought to support international terrorism Libyan officials, in April 2005, refused to make the final payment for each family.

Perhaps Libya will now seek to recover the initial $2.1 billion paid since it appears they were fit up for the job.

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