https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Marwan_Khreesat&feed=atom&action=historyMarwan Khreesat - Revision history2024-03-29T07:46:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.2https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Marwan_Khreesat&diff=252809&oldid=prevRobin: desc2022-10-10T15:54:21Z<p>desc</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionising airline <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"terrorism"</del>. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximising the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>plastic explosive<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionising airline <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bombing</ins>. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximising the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Emerson and Duffy reported in a 1990 book that "according to Israeli intelligence files, it is almost certain that [[Ahmed Jibril]] (PFLP-GC) in 1970 was responsible for the very first plane bombing carried out with a barometer-triggered explosive," and the bombs were built by Khreesat. Two flights from Europe to Israel were bombed the same day (21 February 1970) with radio-based IEDs. These first two were gotten onto the plane by being sent as Air Mail to [[Israel]] – so the carriers, not the bombers, chose the flights that would be hit. One of these devices killed no one, and the other left none alive.<ref>Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy "The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation" New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. 304 pages. pp 114-116.</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Emerson and Duffy reported in a 1990 book that "according to Israeli intelligence files, it is almost certain that [[Ahmed Jibril]] (PFLP-GC) in 1970 was responsible for the very first plane bombing carried out with a barometer-triggered explosive," and the bombs were built by Khreesat. Two flights from Europe to Israel were bombed the same day (21 February 1970) with radio-based IEDs. These first two were gotten onto the plane by being sent as Air Mail to [[Israel]] – so the carriers, not the bombers, chose the flights that would be hit. One of these devices killed no one, and the other left none alive.<ref>Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy "The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation" New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. 304 pages. pp 114-116.</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s fold in the autumn of 1988. To help [[Iran]] avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [[PFLP-GC]] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s fold in the autumn of 1988. To help [[Iran]] avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [[PFLP-GC]] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has </del>a long and unusual career as a bomb-maker spanning nearly two decades. He was employed by the radical PFLP-GC in two distinct phases with a long pause between – the early [[1970s]] and mid-late [[1980]]s, culminating with the 'Autumn Leaves' operation a few weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">had </ins>a long and unusual career as a bomb-maker spanning nearly two decades. He was employed by the radical PFLP-GC in two distinct phases with a long pause between – the early [[1970s]] and mid-late [[1980]]s, culminating with the 'Autumn Leaves' operation a few weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionising airline "terrorism". It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximising the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionising airline "terrorism". It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximising the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Khreesat''' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of Jordanian nationality </del>is a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">terrorist </del>bomb-maker who was active with [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command]] (PFLP-GC) in the early [[1970s]] and again in the mid-late [[1980]]s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kill </del>airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Khreesat''' is a bomb-maker who was active with [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command]] (PFLP-GC) in the early [[1970s]] and again in the mid-late [[1980]]s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">destroy </ins>airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s fold in the autumn of 1988. To help [[Iran]] avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [[PFLP-GC]] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [[Ahmed Jibril]]'s fold in the autumn of 1988. To help [[Iran]] avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [[PFLP-GC]] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td></tr>
</table>Robinhttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Marwan_Khreesat&diff=135080&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine: Wikifying2017-12-01T23:13:16Z<p>Wikifying</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionizing airline terrorism. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximizing the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionizing airline <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>terrorism<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximizing the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Emerson and Duffy reported in a 1990 book that "according to Israeli intelligence files, it is almost certain that Ahmed Jibril (PFLP-GC) in 1970 was responsible for the very first plane bombing carried out with a barometer-triggered explosive," and the bombs were built by Khreesat. Two flights from Europe to Israel were bombed the same day (21 February 1970) with radio-based IEDs. These first two were gotten onto the plane by being sent as Air Mail to Israel – so the carriers, not the bombers, chose the flights that would be hit. One of these devices killed no one, and the other left none alive.<ref>Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy "The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation" New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. 304 pages. pp 114-116.</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Emerson and Duffy reported in a 1990 book that "according to Israeli intelligence files, it is almost certain that Ahmed Jibril (PFLP-GC) in 1970 was responsible for the very first plane bombing carried out with a barometer-triggered explosive," and the bombs were built by Khreesat. Two flights from Europe to Israel were bombed the same day (21 February 1970) with radio-based IEDs. These first two were gotten onto the plane by being sent as Air Mail to Israel – so the carriers, not the bombers, chose the flights that would be hit. One of these devices killed no one, and the other left none alive.<ref>Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy "The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation" New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. 304 pages. pp 114-116.</ref> </div></td></tr>
</table>Robinhttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Marwan_Khreesat&diff=96929&oldid=prevRobin: Text replacement - "1980s " to "1980s "2016-09-16T05:16:36Z<p>Text replacement - "1980s " to "<a href="/wiki/1980s" title="1980s">1980s</a> "</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Abd Rezak Mufti Khreesat''' of Jordanian nationality is a terrorist bomb-maker who was active with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] (PFLP-GC) in the early 1970s and again in the mid-late 1980s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to kill airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Abd Rezak Mufti Khreesat''' of Jordanian nationality is a terrorist bomb-maker who was active with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] (PFLP-GC) in the early <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1970s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and again in the mid-late 1980s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to kill airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] fold in the autumn of 1988. To help Iran avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command PFLP-GC] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 1988 at the latest, Marwan Khreesat was also working for Jordanian intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate (GID), making him a double agent when he was called back into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] fold in the autumn of 1988. To help Iran avenge the downing of [[Iran Air Flight 655]] on 3 July 1988, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command PFLP-GC] cell was formed in Neuss/Frankfurt, West Germany, and centered around helping Khreesat build more altimeter bombs. His Jordanian GID bosses instructed him to infiltrate the PFLP-GC cell and not to arm any of his bombs. Instead, four armed bombs were intercepted in the October 1988 operation 'Autumn Leaves' raid by West German police, with a fifth IED disappearing just six weeks before the [[Lockerbie bombing]] of 21 December 1988. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat has a long and unusual career as a bomb-maker spanning nearly two decades. He was employed by the radical babykillers PFLP-GC in two distinct phases with a long pause between – the early 1970s and mid-late 1980s, culminating with the 'Autumn Leaves' operation a few weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat has a long and unusual career as a bomb-maker spanning nearly two decades. He was employed by the radical babykillers PFLP-GC in two distinct phases with a long pause between – the early <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1970s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and mid-late 1980s, culminating with the 'Autumn Leaves' operation a few weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]]. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionizing airline terrorism. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximizing the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>His formula, the Khreesat magic, was to wire a barometric switch to a plastic explosive IED hidden inside consumer electronics. The result was altimeter bomb, triggered by falling air pressure, revolutionizing airline terrorism. It avoided a problem with timers on much-delayed flights – this would not blow until airborne, maximizing the chance of mass fatalities. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat bought five Toshiba BomBeat 453 units, which have their own little story, but for our purposes they were housing only, and good-sized. It’s the timers and altimeters – only four of each - that mattered to Khreesat, and he selected these himself. The pricey detonators, tens of thousands of dollars apiece, were presumably provided. It was enough to re-create his fear-inducing 1970s innovation; he described the end results to [[FBI]] special agent Edward Marshman in November 1989:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Marwan Khreesat bought five Toshiba BomBeat 453 units, which have their own little story, but for our purposes they were housing only, and good-sized. It’s the timers and altimeters – only four of each - that mattered to Khreesat, and he selected these himself. The pricey detonators, tens of thousands of dollars apiece, were presumably provided. It was enough to re-create his fear-inducing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1970s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>innovation; he described the end results to [[FBI]] special agent Edward Marshman in November 1989:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After Khreesat built these devices, they were shown to Ahmed Jibril, who approved them. Khreesat then disassembled the devices, and the components were taken back to the PFLP-GC office.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After Khreesat built these devices, they were shown to Ahmed Jibril, who approved them. Khreesat then disassembled the devices, and the components were taken back to the PFLP-GC office.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As [[Paul Foot]] aptly noted "‘Described herein’, however, were not four devices but five, and the missing one was disguised 2as a Toshiba cassette recorder. [34] It wasn’t a RT-SF16, so that point is a bit moot, but still he admitted there was a bomb missing. DC [[John Crawford]] described a later trip to Jordan, in mid-2000. This "walking-on-eggshells job" was described thus: </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As [[Paul Foot]] aptly noted "‘Described herein’, however, were not four devices but five, and the missing one was disguised 2as a Toshiba cassette recorder. [34] It wasn’t a RT-SF16, so that point is a bit moot, but still he admitted there was a bomb missing. DC [[John Crawford]] described a later trip to Jordan, in mid-2000. This "walking-on-eggshells job" was described thus: </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, what was found by [[RARDE]] folks like [[Thomas Hayes]] and [[Alan Feraday]] was not Agent Marwan’s style. He did not use Libyan-linked RT-SF16s with two speakers, small spaces, and indestructible paper manuals. He didn’t use Libyan-linked MST-13 timers to send the bomb from Malta through Frankfurt to London, by way of Libyan agents using the brown suitcase Giaka saw. His bombs had no special powers to blank out Frankfurt's luggage records, nor to replace the Bedford suitcases in their corner of luggage container AVE4041. This, in fact, makes them more real, and dangerous, and worth consideration. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, what was found by [[RARDE]] folks like [[Thomas Hayes]] and [[Alan Feraday]] was not Agent Marwan’s style. He did not use Libyan-linked RT-SF16s with two speakers, small spaces, and indestructible paper manuals. He didn’t use Libyan-linked MST-13 timers to send the bomb from Malta through Frankfurt to London, by way of Libyan agents using the brown suitcase Giaka saw. His bombs had no special powers to blank out Frankfurt's luggage records, nor to replace the Bedford suitcases in their corner of luggage container AVE4041. This, in fact, makes them more real, and dangerous, and worth consideration. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By now of course Marwan Khreesat has been officially absolved of suspicion and remains fully at liberty. To be sure, he made five deadly altimeter-triggered airliner bombs on behalf of the PFLP-GC, just weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am 103]]. But he did so undercover, for friendly Jordanian intelligence, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). In testimony at the Camp Zeist trial on 5 December 2000 [[FBI]] Special Agent Edward Marshman confirmed that Khreesat "would be what we refer to as a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>commonly as a double agent, yes." [3]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By now of course Marwan Khreesat has been officially absolved of suspicion and remains fully at liberty. To be sure, he made five deadly altimeter-triggered airliner bombs on behalf of the PFLP-GC, just weeks before the bombing of [[Pan Am 103]]. But he did so undercover, for friendly Jordanian intelligence, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). In testimony at the Camp Zeist trial on 5 December 2000 [[FBI]] Special Agent Edward Marshman confirmed that Khreesat "would be what we refer to as a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">— </ins>commonly as a double agent, yes." [3]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Abd Rezak Mufti Khreesat''' of Jordanian nationality is a terrorist bomb-maker who was active with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] (PFLP-GC) in the early 1970s and again in the mid-late 1980s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to kill airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marwan Abd Rezak Mufti Khreesat''' of Jordanian nationality is a terrorist bomb-maker who was active with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jibril Ahmed Jibril's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_General_Command Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] (PFLP-GC) in the early 1970s and again in the mid-late 1980s. Marwan Khreesat's speciality was the altimeter bomb - designed to kill airliners. The IED would be hidden inside electronics such as a radio/cassette player, packed in a suitcase and only detonate after reaching a certain altitude. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Originally listed as Crown witness 1157, Marwan Khreesat declined the invitation to appear at the trial, and a report written by Marshman took the place of Khreesat’s testimony. Based on Scots/[[FBI]] interviews with the bomb-maker on 12 and 13 November 1989, the report passes on Khreesat's word that "he was sent to Europe in order to infiltrate the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command; he was sent by the GID and was acting as an agent of the GID at all times". [4] </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Originally listed as Crown witness 1157, Marwan Khreesat declined the invitation to appear at the trial, and a report written by Marshman took the place of Khreesat’s testimony. Based on Scots/[[FBI]] interviews with the bomb-maker on 12 and 13 November 1989, the report passes on Khreesat's word that "he was sent to Europe in order to infiltrate the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command; he was sent by the GID and was acting as an agent of the GID at all times". [4] </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"Before Khreesat left for Yugoslavia, he met his GID case officer, who instructed him not to arm any explosive devices while in Yugoslavia. He was told to build any improvised explosive device necessary, but he was instructed to alter the device so that it would not detonate even if used against an Israeli target. Khreesat was told by his case officer that he would be protected while in Yugoslavia."[6]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"Before Khreesat left for Yugoslavia, he met his GID case officer, who instructed him not to arm any explosive devices while in Yugoslavia. He was told to build any improvised explosive device necessary, but he was instructed to alter the device so that it would not detonate even if used against an Israeli target. Khreesat was told by his case officer that he would be protected while in Yugoslavia."[6]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently he was to assemble the bombs there ahead of delivery, but it seems the actual work was done later in Germany, and as we’ll see, they were indeed armed to the teeth. The Zeist judgment of 2001 explained:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently he was to assemble the bombs there ahead of delivery, but it seems the actual work was done later in Germany, and as we’ll see, they were indeed armed to the teeth. The Zeist judgment of 2001 explained:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"It was obvious that what was required was for him to testify that he had no part in building the bomb that blew up [[Pan Am 103]], it was a totally different bomb than the ones he had built in the 1970s and 1980s, the timer was also much different from the ones he favoured in his bombs." [35]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:"It was obvious that what was required was for him to testify that he had no part in building the bomb that blew up [[Pan Am 103]], it was a totally different bomb than the ones he had built in the 1970s and 1980s, the timer was also much different from the ones he favoured in his bombs." [35]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, what was found by RARDE folks like [[Thomas Hayes]] and [[Alan Feraday]] was not Agent Marwan’s style. He did not use Libyan-linked RT-SF16s with two speakers, small spaces, and indestructible paper manuals. He didn’t use Libyan-linked MST-13 timers to send the bomb from Malta through Frankfurt to London, by way of Libyan agents using the brown suitcase Giaka saw. His bombs had no special powers to blank out Frankfurt's luggage records, nor to replace the Bedford suitcases in their corner of luggage container AVE4041. This, in fact, makes them more real, and dangerous, and worth consideration. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, what was found by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>RARDE<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>folks like [[Thomas Hayes]] and [[Alan Feraday]] was not Agent Marwan’s style. He did not use Libyan-linked RT-SF16s with two speakers, small spaces, and indestructible paper manuals. He didn’t use Libyan-linked MST-13 timers to send the bomb from Malta through Frankfurt to London, by way of Libyan agents using the brown suitcase Giaka saw. His bombs had no special powers to blank out Frankfurt's luggage records, nor to replace the Bedford suitcases in their corner of luggage container AVE4041. This, in fact, makes them more real, and dangerous, and worth consideration. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no real disconnect between the PFLP-GC’s bomb and the one on [[Pan Am 103]] if we accept the following: one Khreesat bomb slipped away, was packed into a copper-brown hardshell Samsonite and transported by surface to London. There it was slipped into the most dangerous corner of AVE4041 two hours before the plane took off. All we need then for all the evidence to match up is to disappear the remains of that RT-F423-like radio (around 550 grams of Semtex might do that) and introduce the implausibly large timer and radio chunks that indicate Libya with such cartoonish clarity (certain RARDE operatives might do that). </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no real disconnect between the PFLP-GC’s bomb and the one on [[Pan Am 103]] if we accept the following: one Khreesat bomb slipped away, was packed into a copper-brown hardshell Samsonite and transported by surface to London. There it was slipped into the most dangerous corner of AVE4041 two hours before the plane took off. All we need then for all the evidence to match up is to disappear the remains of that RT-F423-like radio (around 550 grams of Semtex might do that) and introduce the implausibly large timer and radio chunks that indicate Libya with such cartoonish clarity (certain RARDE operatives might do that). </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>References</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>References</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[1] The Maltese Double Cross. Produced, written, and directed by Allan Francovich, Hemar Enterprises, released November 1994. 2 hours, 36 minutes. Quote at 34:00 mark. Google Video</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[1] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>The Maltese Double Cross<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. Produced, written, and directed by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Allan Francovich<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, Hemar Enterprises, released November 1994. 2 hours, 36 minutes. Quote at 34:00 mark. Google Video</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[2] Foot<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Paul</del>. Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>Private Eye, 2001. 30 pages.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[2] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Paul </ins>Foot<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">" ''</ins>Private Eye<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>, 2001. 30 pages.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[3] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY AT CAMP ZEIST - Case No: 1475/99: HER MAJESTY’S ADVOCATE v ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH. Camp Zeist (Kamp van Zeist), The Netherlands, 3 May 2000 to 31 January 2000. Computerised transcription of the proceedings using LiveNote. 10,241 pages in 86 volumes. Copyright 2000, Scottish Court Service. Anonymous donation to The Lockerbie Divide. Day 76, December 5 2000. Edward Marshman, witness no. 540. p 9259 </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[3] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY AT CAMP ZEIST - Case No: 1475/99: HER MAJESTY’S ADVOCATE v ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI and AL AMIN KHALIFA FHIMAH. Camp Zeist (Kamp van Zeist), The Netherlands, 3 May 2000 to 31 January 2000. Computerised transcription of the proceedings using LiveNote. 10,241 pages in 86 volumes. Copyright 2000, Scottish Court Service. Anonymous donation to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>The Lockerbie Divide<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>. Day 76, December 5 2000. Edward Marshman, witness no. 540. p 9259 </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[4] ibid. p 9272</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[4] ibid. p 9272</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[5] Crawford<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, John</del>. The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective's Tale Trafford Publishing 2002. 351 pages. Gogle Books pp 160, 163</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[5] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[John </ins>Crawford<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective's Tale<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">" </ins>Trafford Publishing 2002. 351 pages. Gogle Books pp 160, 163</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[6] See [3], p 9273 </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[6] See [3], p 9273 </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[7] Opinion of the Court. Delivered 31 January 2001. PDF link: http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/library/lockerbie/docs/lockerbiejudgement.pdf</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[7] Opinion of the Court. Delivered 31 January 2001. PDF link: http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/library/lockerbie/docs/lockerbiejudgement.pdf</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[8]Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“The </del>Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Investigation” </del>New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. p 208.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[8]Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"The </ins>Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Investigation" </ins>New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1990. p 208.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[9] ibid. pp 128-29</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[9] ibid. pp 128-29</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[10] ibid. pp 114-115</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[10] ibid. pp 114-115</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[30] See [7]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[30] See [7]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[31], [32] Transcripts, Day 79 (January 10, 2001), p 9525-26</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[31], [32] Transcripts, Day 79 (January 10, 2001), p 9525-26</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[33] Transcripts, Day 76, p 9268</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[33] Transcripts, Day 76, p 9268</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[34] Foot<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Paul</del>. Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice. Private Eye, 2001. 30 pages. p 23. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[34] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Paul </ins>Foot<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Private Eye<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>, 2001. 30 pages. p 23. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[35] Crawford, p 160<ref>[http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/marwan-khreesat-how-many-times-agent.html "Marwan Khreesat: How Many Times an Agent?"]</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[35] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[John Crawford|</ins>Crawford<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, p 160<ref>[http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/marwan-khreesat-how-many-times-agent.html "Marwan Khreesat: How Many Times an Agent?"]</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==[https://www.facebook.com/marwan.khrisat?fref=ts Khreesat on ''Facebook'']==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==[https://www.facebook.com/marwan.khrisat?fref=ts Khreesat on ''Facebook'']==</div></td></tr>
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<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 204:</td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:British and American investigators initially believed that the PFLP-GC had blown up the plane, in which all 259 people on board and 11 more on the ground were killed, and suggested the attack had been ordered by Iran to avenge the mistaken downing of an [[Iran Air Flight 655|Iranian civilian airliner]] by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf six months earlier in which 290 people were killed.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:British and American investigators initially believed that the PFLP-GC had blown up the plane, in which all 259 people on board and 11 more on the ground were killed, and suggested the attack had been ordered by Iran to avenge the mistaken downing of an [[Iran Air Flight 655|Iranian civilian airliner]] by the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf six months earlier in which 290 people were killed.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Later, however, suspicion switched to Libya, and to a former Libyan intelligence officer, [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]]. [[Megrahi]] was convicted and jailed in 2001 after a trial in which his fellow alleged Libyan conspirator, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamin_Khalifah_Fhimah Lamin Fhimah,] was acquitted. He died in 2012 still insisting on his innocence.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Later, however, suspicion switched to Libya, and to a former Libyan intelligence officer, [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]]. [[Megrahi]] was convicted and jailed in 2001 after a trial in which his fellow alleged Libyan conspirator, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamin_Khalifah_Fhimah Lamin Fhimah,] was acquitted. He died in 2012 still insisting on his innocence.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:In 2007, a Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission found a series of grounds to justify concerns that a miscarriage of justice had occurred. The process by which [[Megrahi]] was identified has been widely criticised, and the authenticity of a timer fragment central to the implication of Libya in the plot has been increasingly questioned.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:In 2007, a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>found a series of grounds to justify concerns that a miscarriage of justice had occurred. The process by which [[Megrahi]] was identified has been widely criticised, and the authenticity of a timer fragment central to the implication of Libya in the plot has been increasingly questioned.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:An ''Al Jazeera'' documentary last week ([[Lockerbie: What Really Happened?]]) implicated the PFLP-GC in the bombing, and a former Iranian intelligence officer, Abolghasem Mesbahi, who defected to Germany in the 1990s, alleged that Iran had commissioned it, stating that "Iran decided to retaliate (for the downing of its own [[Iran Air Flight 655|Flight 655]]) as soon as possible. The decision was made by the whole system in Iran and confirmed by Ayatollah Khomeini."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:An ''Al Jazeera'' documentary last week ([[Lockerbie: What Really Happened?]]) implicated the PFLP-GC in the bombing, and a former Iranian intelligence officer, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Abolghasem Mesbahi<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, who defected to Germany in the 1990s, alleged that Iran had commissioned it, stating that "Iran decided to retaliate (for the downing of its own [[Iran Air Flight 655|Flight 655]]) as soon as possible. The decision was made by the whole system in Iran and confirmed by Ayatollah Khomeini."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Khreesat originally agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, the program-makers said, but later refused to do so, and was quoted in the film saying:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Khreesat originally agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, the program-makers said, but later refused to do so, and was quoted in the film saying:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::"All of my problems are because of Lockerbie."<ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/bomb-maker-brags-about-el-al-blast-posts-lockerbie-photos/ "‘Bomb-maker’ brags about El Al blast, posts Lockerbie photos"]</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>::"All of my problems are because of Lockerbie."<ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/bomb-maker-brags-about-el-al-blast-posts-lockerbie-photos/ "‘Bomb-maker’ brags about El Al blast, posts Lockerbie photos"]</ref></div></td></tr>
</table>Patrick Haseldine