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- From: v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Pan Am 103-Four years after
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 05:41:00 GMT
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- In article <BzMt8F.3zt@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes...
- >Don't be so quick to dismiss this one. British investigative magazine
- >Private Eye has uncovered lots of circumstantial evidence that all points
- >in the direction of the hypothesis outlined above. And some good concrete
- >evidence to do with a suitcase belonging to the CIA passenger that was
- >explicitly searched for first before the investigation took off properly.
-
- I read about that, too. But one of the other people from Syracuse was carrying
- drugs too (what a horrible way for your parents to find out you were in the
- process of committing a felony!). maybe people were carrying drugs just for
- personal reasons.
-
- >There's *something* fishy in this story and it will come out eventually.
-
- Oh yeah, I know there is. The point I was making was that Pan Am's lousy
- security is more at fault than anyone else for letting this happen. The CIA made
- an assumption, and as the movie Bad News Bears In Breaking training teaches us,
- when you assume, you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me".
-
- Pan Am, as the victims have properly put it, is on a "fishing expedition" for
- excuses. None of this would have happened if they had done their job even
- adequately. It may be true, but...
-
- >
- >We may all be too old to give a damn of course, when it does.
-
- ..I'm too old to really care much right now. Nothing will ever bring that
- pre-crash way of life and the people who epitomized it back. You must understand
- my interest in conspiracy theories wanes a bit here, because of my personal
- involvement in this one. That Wednesday four years ago was shattering to all of
- us at Syracuse. It took the edge off Christmas-i didn't feel good celebrating it
- when people whom I didn't know but felt kinship with were being picked out of
- Scottish rubble. I'd rather let it lie than pursue the finer points of the blame
- It doesn't interest me so much who really did it when it didn't have to happen
- in the first place. Thinking about it (and I must admit I do still read
- anything about it I come across) just sometimes (like today, for obvious reasons
- tends to bring the feelings of that back to life, and that's not fun.
-
- I'm not trying to dissuade you, just explaining why this isn't much of an issue
- for me.
-
-
- >
- >G
- >PS Private Eye's analysis is that the reason for the bomb was primarily
- >to scupper the peace process that was going on at the time and looking
- >like making headway; that the 'diplomatic bag' of the CIA was a regular
- >conduit for drugs for CIA dirty money to fund arms deals, and the people
- >the CIA dealt with double-crossed them by supplying a bomb in the drug
- >shipment.
-
- Gary Indiana in the Village Voice suggested the same thing, but hinted that it
- might have been the Mossad scuttling the peace process. I don't know, nor do I
- care much.
- There is also a similar theory going on about the Arrow Airlines jet carrying
- the US Army men returning for Christmas from the Middle East some years back
- that crashed in Gander, NF (Canada). This one links up to the Iran-Contra deal.
- Although the Canadian inquiry ruled that it was caused by the bad weather (and
- the aged condition of the plane), one member held out, and his dissent gained
- more currency in light of PA 103. There are some strange things about that
- flight. For one thing, when the plane left Egypt, two large cases were put on at
- the last minute, and some soldiers had to give up their personal bags to make
- weight for it. This is never done in the US Army. Also, some of the wreckage of
- the plane suggests an internal explosion, not a crash, and there are
- eyewitnesses on the ground who say the plane was burning as it came down-which
- conflicts with the board's "explosion on crash" theory. Has Private Eye written
- about this? it would be worth looking into.
-
- Dan Case
-