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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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A journalist secretly interviews the bomb maker.
To him Khreesat confirms that he had made airplane bombs for Jibril, had been sent to Germany on a revenge mission, and that he was a secret agent.
So as the aircraft that was blown apart is put back together, rivets inspected, how a jumbo jet [inaudible] demonstrated by [inaudible] terrorists and bombs have already been found. Terrorists have been set free. A bomb has vanished. The finger points somewhere. Syria and Iran. That somewhere soon becomes nowhere.
March 1989. Paul Channon, the British Minister of Transport, in a London Club, tells five journalists that the Pan Am case has been solved.
Arrests are imminent. Banner headlines in the tabloids.
The next day, named as the source, the Minister denies he ever talked and soon afterwards resigns.
An American columnist, Jack Anderson, reports in his column on a conversation between Margaret Thatcher and George Bush.
Who should they blame?
[Howard Teicher, U.S. National Security Council Senior Director] I read the Anderson column.
I find it a little hard to believe that two heads of state would make a unilateral decision such as he reports exonerating governments who are documented state sponsors of terrorism of having anything to do with the Pan Am 103 event, especially given the intelligence information, some of which I know has been corroborated which clearly links the bombing to them.
3 December 1989: Lockerbie trial for 'bomb man'
The paymaster, the bomber and the bungling Germans
[Narrator] One Sunday, David Leppard, Sunday Times Ace investigator, even announces he and The Times have solved the case, a story that changes when Mr. Leppard writes a Lockerbie book.
[David Yallop] In the middle of 1989, some six or seven months after Pan Am 103 blew up, when Secretary of State Baker was in Damascus, they had a meeting with the Syrian foreign minister and at that meeting Baker said, "What are you doing about the GLC group? And the foreign minister didn't quite understand. He said who are you talking about. He said the Jibril group. So he said, what about them? He said, "They are responsible for Lockerbie. What are you doing about them?" He said, "How do you know that they are responsible?" He said, "We have the evidence, and the evidence is irrefutable." Now that was seven months after 270 people were murdered in Scotland. I want to know why that irrefutable evidence has never been made public. I also want to know how it has now changed dramatically to suddenly be put at Tripoli's door rather than Damascus's door.
[Narrator] The sea and a city trying to get to sleep. Beirut, no, there are not enough rooms. Tripoli. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Every fleet marine knows the words to the marine hymn.
Oliver North, Lt. Col. U.S. Marine Corp., his commander-in-chief the Hon. Ronald Reagan, always and still keeping the sleep of the just as he had in cabinet meetings, had his three presidential obsessions: hostages, contras and Gaddafi.
Ollie worked with Vince, Vincent Cannistraro on a program that was meant to destroy the Gaddafi regime.
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