another posting quoting from the website of Douglas O. Linder, inwhich, I believe I have already stated, contains US government documents, which, at best, could be labelled as unsafe. it is my belief, after studying the documentation, that the Us Government wanted someone, anyone, to pay for the crimes of murdering the FBI agents. A similar thing occurred in Brtain with the bombings in Birmingham and Guilford, the attitude was, "pick some random Irish and charge them with terrorist attacks in the name of the IRA, wrongful accusations, wrongful imprisonment. In the case of the Guilford Four, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson, The bombings were at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Metropolitan Police were under enormous pressure to apprehend the IRA bombers responsible for the attacks in England. In December 1974 the police arrested the three men and the woman.
They were falsely convicted of the bombings in October 1975, and held in prison for fifteen years, during which Gerry Conlon's father, Patrick "Giuseppe" Conlon died in prison. Their convictions were later overturned in the appeal courts after it was proved the convictions had been based on confessions obtained by torture, whilst evidence clearing them was not reported by the police.......