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Thread #102870 Message #2089922
Posted By: GUEST,PMB
29-Jun-07 - 07:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lockerbie: So who DID do it?
Subject: RE: BS: Lockerbie: So who DID do it?
The rumour that was about at the time was that it was Palestinians acting for Iran, and that the CIA were involved because they thought that the smuggled radio contained heroin as part of a deal about some nefarious operation carried out on their behalf. But I don't know why you would think the CIA incapable of the actual deed.
Or maybe that was a novel, or a joke in Private Eye. But it's pretty certain that Gaddafy played a cynical hand, 'giving up' a nuclear program he never had, handing over a fall guy and paying compensation so that he was on 'our' side in the war against terror. And of course the subsequent rise in oil prices meant that the few billion he payed in compensation was more than payed for by the lifting of sanctions.
What worries me sometimes is that people can feel their anger and grief at losing a loved one as a reason not to examine the truth behind the tragedy. As though it doesn't matter who is punished, as long as somebody is.