Quote: (12-24-2013 09:06 PM)cardguy Wrote:
The conspiracy I most believe in is to do with the Lockerbie bombing. A US passenger plane was blown up over a small Scottish village on December 21, 1988 killing 270 people.
Iran were responsible for the bombing - but the Americans blamed Libya instead.
This story is back in the news today since Al Jazeera are running a new documentary on the case. Anyway - all of the information backs up the conspiracy angle as detailed in my longer post earlier in this thread:
The CIA to do this day have always said that Iran (who hired a Syrian terrorist group to carry out the attack) was behind the bombing. But the FBI blamed Libya. And after a phone call between George Bush and Margaret Thatcher - it was agreed for diplomatic reasons (ie not pissing off Syria who had western hostages at the time, and whose support was needed for the upcoming Gulf War) to put the focus on Libya.
The link with western hostages is an interesting one. Since exactly 5 days after America announced that Libya was behind the bombing - Terry Waite (a very famous UK hostage) was released. Terry Waite was being held by Hizbollah - a terrorist gorup which was backed by Iran.
At the time Libya was a pariah state - but in order to re-enter the diplomatic community, about ten years later - Gaddaffi agreed to admit guilt in order to normalise relations with other countries. Even though soon afterwards his son admitted it was a lie told in order for Libya to be allowed to sell oil to the west again.
I am not a 9/11 'truther' myself. But it does open your eyes quite a bit to the corruption of western governments that they would enact a conspiracy to lie about the worse case of terrorism to ever affect the UK. And the worse case of terrorism to ever affect America (at lease until 9/11).
Strangely enough - I am reading a book about the build up to 9/11. And the book details the rise of Islamic extremism in America and the many bad decisions and errors which took place to allow this threat to go unchecked. A large part of this was due to the incredible rivalry between the FBI and he CIA. Which culminated in the FBI being sent in to arrest members of the CIA for their handling of the Iran-Conra affair.
In the aftermath of that scandal - senior members of the CIA were replaced by senior members of the FBI.
One of the long forgotten decisions was a liberal ammendment that congressman Barney Frank introduced to a bill in the 80's which allowed members of terrorist groups to obtain visas to live in America.
At the time Barney Frank argued it was a violation of human rights for simple membership of a terrorist group to be a reason to deny a visa to enter America. As long as no criminal acts had been committed by such a terrorist member.
Post 9/11 this is an amazing piece of legislation to consider.
Although one imagines the main reason for it at the time was to open the door for Gerry Adams and other members of Sein Fein (and the IRA) to enter America.
The other interesting detail in the book I am reading concerns the warning that The Mossad passed on to the CIA. They actually told the CIA that a plane travelling from Frankfurt to America would be blown up by terrorists in the following two weeks.
And that is exactly what happened. The plane which blew up over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie was flying from Frankfurt to Miami - killing 270 people. And the attack took place within two weeks of the CIA being warned by The Mossad.
If that wasn't bad enough - three of those who were killed on the flight were CIA officers flying home for the Christmas holidays.
To have three members of the world's most famous and most powerful secret service killed in a plane bombing despite receiving a specific warning that this would happen marks an all-time low in bureaucratic incompetence.
Anyway - with all that as a backdrop (and do check my earlier post if you are interested in more information) - here are the details from a former Iranian spy admitting responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing. It is a the centrepiece of the new documentary from Al Jazeera. It was the main story on the Telegraph website earlier today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/t...r-spy.html