Lockerbie

Lockerbie
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Publisher : History Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0750985771
ISBN-13 : 9780750985772
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Lockerbie by : Douglas Boyd

Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Britain's worst terrorist attack

The Lockerbie Bombing

The Lockerbie Bombing
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781788853057
ISBN-13 : 1788853059
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lockerbie Bombing by : Jim Swire

A father details his loss, grief, and fight for the truth following his daughter’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War II. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then, it has been revealed that the United States paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world’s most shocking events. Praise for The Lockerbie Bombing “It is hard to read this book without concluding that Dr Swire is right, and that for reasons that are both understandable and shameful, successive British governments repeated obstructed the investigation and they did so at the instigation of our American allies. . . . This book recounts Swire’s long and painful search for the truth about Lockerbie and his version is persuasive. It is disturbing too because, if he has it right, the Scottish judges who have now three times rejected appeals against the original verdict, have made it hard to have confidence in the integrity of our law.” —The Scotsman “Fascinating, compelling—a book about international intrigue, personal feelings, and ethics. Right at its heart is the search for truth.” —Kate Adie “Lockerbie's heartrending epitaph. . . . A shattering tale of grief and love.” —Daily Mail

Megrahi: You are My Jury

Megrahi: You are My Jury
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 664
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ISBN-10 : 9780857902320
ISBN-13 : 0857902326
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Megrahi: You are My Jury by : John Ashton

'You know me as the Lockerbie bomber. I know that I'm innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain's worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release. Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury'. (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi). For the first time the man known as 'the Lockerbie bomber' tells his story. This long-awaited book argues that, far from being an unrepentant terrorist, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the innocent victim of dirty politics, a flawed investigation and judicial folly. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock. Megrahi: You Are My Jury makes a compelling argument that the murderers of the 270 Lockerbie victims were acting on behalf of an entirely different government, rather than Colonel Gadafy and Libya.

Scotbom

Scotbom
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Publisher : Algora Publishing
Total Pages : 530
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780875864518
ISBN-13 : 0875864511
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Scotbom by : Richard Marquise

The top FBI official who managed all aspects of the investigation for the US reveals what it took to bring two Libyans to trial in this inside story of the 12-year investigation of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307386915
ISBN-13 : 0307386910
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by : Ken Dornstein

The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.

The Professor of Truth

The Professor of Truth
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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Total Pages : 333
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781590516331
ISBN-13 : 1590516338
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Professor of Truth by : James Robertson

A literary spellbinder about one man’s desperate attempt to deal with grief by unmasking the terrorists responsible for the act that killed his wife and daughter Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing persists in trying to discover what really happened on that terrible night. Over the years, he obsessively amasses documents, tapes, and transcripts to prove that the man who was convicted was not actually responsible, and that the real culprit remains at large. When a retired American intelligence officer arrives on Alan’s doorstep on a snowy night, claiming to have information about a key witness in the trial, a fateful sequence of events is set in motion. Alan decides he must confront this man, in the hope of uncovering what actually happened. While Robertson writes with the narrative thrust of a thriller, The Professor of Truth is also a graceful meditation on grief, and the lengths we may go to find meaning in loss.

Adequately Explained by Stupidity?

Adequately Explained by Stupidity?
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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781783062508
ISBN-13 : 1783062509
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Adequately Explained by Stupidity? by : Morag G. Kerr

Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the controversial investigation and subsequent conviction. Concentrating almost entirely on the transfer baggage evidence, it exposes shocking deficiencies in both the police inquiry and the forensic investigation, which led the hunt in entirely the wrong direction. Cleverly constructed to lead the reader through the complexities of the case, the book provides insights which will be new to even the most seasoned Lockerbie pundit, while remaining accessible to those with little or no previous familiarity with the subject. The reader will see all the main aspects of the official account of the Lockerbie disaster comprehensively destroyed. This is the first book about Lockerbie to deal rigorously with the detail of the transfer baggage evidence. Dr. Kerr has been given access to reports, statements and photographs not previously available to the general public, and has analysed the information with forensic rigour. This analysis proves conclusively that the bomb that brought down the plane was introduced at Heathrow airport and not at Malta as claimed. Key Selling Points: • Published on the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster, which happened on 21st December 1988. • Morag has been Secretary Depute of “Justice for Megrahi” since 2010, and is the author of the widely-acclaimed pamphlet Lockerbie: Fact and Fiction. • On 23rd December 1988, Morag was driving on the A74. This was the stimulus for her research into the subject.

Scotland's Shame

Scotland's Shame
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780857906427
ISBN-13 : 0857906429
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Scotland's Shame by : John Ashton

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and twenty-five years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland's SNP government in 2009. John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland's most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi. It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country's treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.

Plane Truth

Plane Truth
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Publisher : Algora Publishing
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781892941312
ISBN-13 : 1892941317
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Plane Truth by : Carl Davies

A free-lance sleuth investigating the demise of Pan AM 103 over Lockerbie raises new questions about corporate and tribal loyalties, structural engineering, and money and politics, in a credible scenario that understandably could never be admitted by anyo

Cover-up of Convenience

Cover-up of Convenience
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Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Total Pages : 400
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1840183896
ISBN-13 : 9781840183894
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Cover-up of Convenience by : John Ashton

On December 21 1988, 270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie. Finally, after 11 years of investigation, political stalemate and legal delays, two Libyan men prepare to face trial for the Lockerbie bombing. But many observers - including legal and law enforcement officials close to the case - say the trial may not produce a satisfying answer to the question of who bombed Pan Am 103.