Flight 103 was the third flight of the day for Pan Am from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday 21 December 1988. Flight 103 was a Boeing Seventy Forty Seven named was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and all 16 crew member. There was also 11 people in Lockerbie, southern Scotland, that were killed as large sections of the plane fell from the sky all over town, bringing the total number of people killed to 270. With all the people killed in the town of Lockerbie the media dubbed this atrocity the Lockerbie bombing.
There was a three-year joint investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary. Over fifteen thousand witnesses were interviewed and indictments for murder were issued on 13 November 1991 against Lamin Khalifah ,the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines Fhimah and Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta.
The United Nations sanctioned Libya and after years and several economic incentives, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya’s un-elected leader, handed over both of these individuals on April 5th, 1999 to Scottish police at Camp Zeist, Netherlands as it was negotiated that the trial would be held at a neutral site.
Khalif and al-Megrahi were both given life sentences after their trials. Al-Megrahi was released in 2009 for humanitarian reasons. This to me is lunacy, as al-Megrahi showed the people on the flight or in Lockerbie.
Al-Megrahi was only supposed to live for three months upon his release due to his colon cancer. Doctors now believe that he could live a decade. How can someone condone what this man was a part of?
Now after all the death and pain this man has caused in the world British Petroleum decided it was in their best interest to spit on the grave of the brave souls that lost their lives that day. Their were fathers and mothers and students on that flight and on the ground BP!
BP insists that it never raised the actual subject of the al-Megrahi while lobbying the British Government to release al-Megrahi. If you believe that I have a certain bridge in London that I am selling for a dollar.
This is all about a $900 million exploration deal BP provisionally agreed with Libya back in two thousand seven. This is the same month that Libya and the Brits decided to talk about a prisoner swap.
Libya was starting to get cold feet on ratifying the deal with BP. It was not until the prisoner swap was completed that Libya finally accepted the deal with BP. Mind blowing I know.
Hillary Clinton has been pushing the United States Congress to hold hearings on this situation. I for one applaud the Secretary of State for taking it upon herself to look into this matter. There were over one hundred Americans on that flight. Imagine the uproar if we let a serial killer out of jail, well the British Government did just that and they have to be taken to task on that.
BP is a despicable company that has pushed profit over everything else in their minds. A company needs to look not at the bottom line all of the time. I for one now cringe at the site of a BP gas station and their advertisements in the media. Although their handling of the gulf situation has given the company a huge black eye, this Lockerbie Bomber mess has really got me totally fired up.
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