IT is 10 years since the horror of Lockerbie and we are no nearer a trial of the two Libyan suspects. And that is what they are, suspects, according to a recent Dispatches report on Channel 4.
It revealed several key evidences that would put the Libyan connection in serious doubt. On the contrary, it pointed towards an East German and Palestinian connection.
The report alleges that the type of timer device found in the wreckage of the Pan Am aircraft at Lockerbie could only have come from the then East Germany and planted on the plane in Frankfurt and not in Malta, where the two Libyans were working.
It also alleges the chief FBI investigator had seriously misrepresented the facts of their investigation into the whole affair.
He was later dismissed for wrong-doing in a separate matter.
It is alarming to learn the Americans may be misleading the world for their own political ends.
Where is British justice, or are we going to toe the American line as we frequently do? It appals me.
A WILMOT (Mr), Gorse Road, Blackburn.
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