Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Great Game

For the last few days, the release of the Libyan convicted of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie has made the headlines again. This time, BP (the company we love to hate) is implicated in the early release. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released, we were told, due to his terminal illness. Reports have since been made that he will live for much longer that previously expected. We hear questions surrounding his release and his health, but not his guilt.
A UN observer at the trial is not convinced, and in the years since the bombing, several alternative theories have emerged, a number of which involved the CIA, DEA and drug smuggling. One of the best documentaries on the bombing is The Maltese Double Cross, from 1994:

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