Destroying Libya and World Order

Author:Francis A. Boyle
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Destroying Libya and World Order

27 February 1992 Letter of Instruction

106

106

Resolving the Lockerbie Dispute By Means of International Law

CHAPTER 41

RESOLVING

THE LOCKERBIE

DISPUTE

BY MEANS OF

INTERNATIONAL

LAW2

I. THE FACTUAL NATURE OF THE DISPUTE OVER THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING

Factual Allegations

I predicted to Libya that they would be set-up as a scapegoat

for the Lockerbie bombing by the United States. So when the Lockerbie

bombing allegations first emerged in the U.S. and the French news media

sources trying to implicate Libya back in June of 1991, 3 Libya immediately

contacted me to serve as Counsel to them on the matter. It was certainly

clear to me at the time that Libya was being scapegoated by the C.I.A.

and French “intelligence.” All the evidence on the incident pointed in

directions other than Libya.4

The story first broke here in the Wall Street Journal, which is very

close to the C.I.A.5 If you read the convoluted story, it was completely

preposterous. All of a sudden, some C.I.A. agent completely out of

nowhere reviewed, discredited, and reversed all the evidence that they

had previously used to blame Iran, Syria and a renegade Palestinian group

whose headquarters were under the control of Syria.6 I am not saying

that they did it. I do not know, but the C.I.A. had been blaming these

others all along.7 But then, when it became geopolitically convenient

for the Bush Senior administration not to blame Iran and Syria, they

immediately switched the blame to Libya. Bush Senior needed Iranian

and Syrian cooperation in order to wage his war against Iraq.8 So Bush

107

107

Destroying Libya and World Order

Senior decided not to blame Iran and Syria. 9 Once again I am not saying

they did it, but all of sudden there was a remarkable turn-around in the

U.S. party line, and the accounts for it were completely incredible.

These new-found intelligence sources went back to two

countries: Senegal and Malta. You wil note that when all these allegations

began to emerge out of Senegal, that exact same week the Financial Times

of London reported that Senegal’s public debts had been miraculously

rescheduled by the Paris Club at a highly preferential rate that Senegal

was not entitled to. 10 I thought it was pretty clear that someone in

Senegal was bought off.11

As for Malta, all the alleged evidence of Libya’s involvement went

back to two Libyan nationals who were working for Libyan airlines over in

Malta.12 But the Maltese government had undertaken a very extensive

investigation, and their conclusion was that there was no unaccompanied

baggage on the flight from Malta to Frankfurt (and from there allegedly

to the Pan Am jet in London), and that they had been able to account for

all the baggage.13 Those sources of new “intelligence” took care of what

flimsy evidence there was against Libya.

Remember that the burden of proof here was upon the United

States and the United Kingdom, not Libya; and that the international law

standard of proof required proof beyond a reasonable doubt. What little

evidence they claimed to have would not stand up in any fair, impartial,

and independent court of law. That is why Libya was more than happy

to turn over the Lockerbie matter to a fair, impartial, and independent

tribunal. Conversely, that was also why the United States

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.