Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Bombing

Former Iranian spy says Lockerbie bombing ordered by Iran, not Libya

Robert Spencer Mar 12, 2014 at 3:34am6 Comments

Maybe this is true. In either case, it was jihad. But the establishment analysts of the West already know to discount that. “Lockerbie bombing ‘was work of Iran, not Libya’ says former spy,” by Gordon Rayner for the Telegraph, March 10: The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and

says former spy,” by Gordon Rayner for theTelegraph, March 10:

The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by a Syrian-based terrorist group, a former Iranian intelligence officer has admitted.

Abolghassem Mesbahi, a defector to Germany, said Pan Am flight 103 was downed in 1988 in retaliation for a US Navy strike on an Iranian commercial jet six months earlier, in which 290 people died.

He claims the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was Iran’s Supreme Leader, ordered the bombing “to copy exactly what happened to the Iranian Airbus”.

Previously unseen evidence gathered for the aborted appeal hearing of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing, supports Mr Mesbahi’s claim and suggests that the bombers belonged to the extremist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC).

Documents obtained by Al Jazeera television for a documentary called Lockerbie: What Really Happened? name key individuals said to be involved in the bombing, including the alleged bomb-maker, the alleged mastermind and the man who may have put the bomb on the doomed Boeing 747….