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Lockerbie: The Truth (Paperback)
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Lockerbie: The Truth (Paperback)
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Loot Price R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
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On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit
was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen
crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects
crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in
the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The
psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years
to disappear; in some cases, it never did. Libyan Abdelbaset
al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime -
though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him
innocent. Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran,
not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988
(less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air
flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight
when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing
illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader
Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge.
However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared
guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran
on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam
Hussein's Iraq. Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts
about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.
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