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[Narrator] And so for these dead that had fallen out of the sky into Scotland, a first memorial service, a winter January morning, Martha's story read in the presence of the Iron Lady. Over the motor ferry, on the road to Lockmaven, in the village graveyard, all dead is local. On the stones, there is even the street, High Street for instance, [inaudible] Rogerson, for instance died, generation buried with generation, grandmother with grandson, father with stillborn daughter.
But there also are other deaths recorded. Here wanderers away at war, away earning and saving, brought home, sent home from Gallipoli, killed in action, Gaza, dead of wounds, South and East Africa, [inaudible] Province of Alberta, and Calcutta.
So they know that what these other dead had and owned is all that will ever be left of what they were and that it must all be folded up and put away.
WE CAN GIVE YOU 4 MILLION REASONS TO STOP TERRORISM
[Narrator] 1993. Before the Fifth anniversary. Still an offer, a $4 Million reward for terrorists.
[USA TODAY: Wanted: Tips on Terrorist]
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
[Narrator] After the third anniversary, two governments had issued indictments against two Libyans. Why did the government then now paying for this newspaper advertisement?
For the third, the fourth, and now a fifth memorial, the governments seemed to hope the the memorials would go on and on and on, year after year, until all that is left is a fading memory clanging in a belfry tower.
21st December 1993 Westminster Abbey
[Rev. John Mosey, Father of Helga Mosey] Why has a full independent inquiry been consistently refused? Why, after five years have no real answers been supplied? [Jane Swire] Elia Stratis, Anthony Swan, Flora Swire, James Smith, Mary Smith, Geraldine Stevenson, Hannah Stevenson, John Stevenson, Rachael Stevenson, Charlotte Stinnett, Michael Stinnett, Stacey Stinnett.
[David Ben-Arycah, Journalist] Over five years, a very disturbing story has emerged about warnings. A well-respected international journalist, David Yallop, had interviewed Abu Nidal, who had warned him that there was going to be an attack on an American airliner. Yallop flew immediately back to London and notified the British authorities, MI-6.
[Narrator] Abu Nidal, mastermind of the Rome and Vienna airport massacres, now trying to stop more killings.
[David Yallop] I was in Libya to interview Gaddafi and Abu Nidal and a group of other people. I had a conversation with a man named Brian Crozier who was an asset for the CIA and MI6 and I had been asked by him to ask three or four specific questions of Nidal. Nidal had told me that he was being put under great pressure by the Syrians to reactivate against an American target.
I typed out an 8-page report I have a copy of here in which I talk about the pressure being put on Nidal by both Syria and Iraq at that time to resume terror tactics. And I then elaborated beyond the report specifically with regard to the pressure from Syria and to a potential American target. I was insistent that this information -- this was by the way given not just to Crozier but to a senior member of MI6 by myself -- that this was to be shared with the CIA, and to be shared with them immediately.
[David Ben-Arycah, Journalist] After that, there was a warning to the American Embassy in Helsinki. Frighteningly specific. A woman would carry a bomb on board an American airliner at Frankfurt heading for New York. That was circulated. Again, through Interpol, and again through the American State Department warning system.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] In the buildup prior to the tragedy, there were a number of warnings that came out through the FAA and various other agencies. One particular one that was of interest to me was the Helsinki warning which I first had knowledge of I believe it was on the morning of the 8th of December.
[Charles Price, U.S. Ambassador, U.K.] We did indeed receive on December 9th an advisory based on an untested source in terms of reliability. That information was disseminated throughout this embassy, and we advised all appropriate British authorities including all American carriers.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] I had received a telex -- I was in Brussels actually that year on the morning -- and I received a telex from headquarters that I was to go to Helsinki and that I was to get further information from my colleague in Frankfurt who I telephoned, and I subsequently came back to London and made arrangements to travel to Helsinki later that day.
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