Lockerbie: Ulrich Lumpert And The Pro-Syrian Palestinian Faction
The Croydonian notes:
I cannot see any reference in the English language media to this bombshell in Le Figaro, so here is a minor filetting of the article:
Swiss engineer Ulrich Lumpert has admitted lying in his testimony made to the court in the trial of Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, currently in the Glasgow big house for involvement in the bomb that detonated on PanAm 103 over Lockerbie in 1988. He has added a claim that he stole a timer from his employer, Swiss company Mebo and to have then given it a Scottish police officer involved in the investigation. Translating directly from Le Figaro, “This assertion accredits a thesis maintained by many people – journalists, lawyers and even parents of victims: there had been a “manipulation” in the investigation to incriminate Libya, whereas the first suspicions pointed out to a pro-Syrian Palestinian faction”.
Mebo had sold timers to Libya in the past, but has always maintained that the timer in question had not been sold by it to the Libyans.
I recall there being much shaking of heads over the suspicion of Syrian involvement being ruled out at the time – when they were seen as being on our side during Gulf War I – and without claiming to have studied the whole affair to any great depth felt that something was not entirely right in the apparently over-neat fingering of Libya to the exclusion of Damascus and its various cat’s paws.
Meanwhile, al-Megrahi was granted leave to appeal in June, although that was prior to this business with the timer….
If someone lies the first time, what says they aren’t lying again?
Posted: 29th, August 2007 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
