Dr. Ludwig de Braeckeleer

US Major Charles McKee return flight confirmed

Part 170 –DECEMBER 19 1988 "A couple of my black ops buddies in the pentagon believe that the Pan Am bombers were gunning for McKee hostage-rescue team. But they were told to shift the focuss of their investigation because it revealed an embarrassing breakdown in security." - Gene Weathon—Retired US military Intelligence Officer

Letter from the architect of the Lockerbie trial

"As a result of today's meeting, I am satisfied that not only was there a wrongful conviction, but the victim of it was an innocent man. Lawyers, and I hope others, will appreciate this distinction." - Pr Robert Black, Meeting with al Megrahi in prison, November 1st 2007

DIA warns against threats against US interests

Part 152 –DECEMBER 1, 1988 "Reports of surveillance, targeting and planning of actions against US persons and facilities are continuous." - DIA DITSUM, dated Dec. 1st 1988

Was Abu Nidal CIA asset?

Part 150 – NOVEMBER 29 1988 Will there therefore be more attacks, more operations? Yes. But at the present, I am content to watch Arafat destroy himself with this so-called moderation and peace process.

Irangate: Just arms for hostages - plain and simple

Part 149 – NOVEMBER 28 1988 ''I don't care if I have to go to Leavenworth; I want the hostages out.'' - President Ronald Reagan

US refuses visa to Arafat

Part 148 – NOVEMBER 27 1988 ''What more do you want me to do? A streaptease?'' Yasser Arafat, Nov. 1988

FAA issues warning regarding the PFLP-GC Radio Bomb

Part 138 – NOVEMBER 17 1988 Who gave the instruction for the destruction of notebooks? After all, this was the biggest unresolved murder trial in Scottish legal history. The answer to that question is likely to be found not in Edinburgh, but in London --Tam Dalyell

Iran, Syria and Fatah reject Arafat proposal

Part 137 – NOVEMBER 16 1988 ''Their most dangerous aspect is that they [Arafat and his supporters] threaten the unity of our people inside the occupied territories and deal a blow to the unity of the land Palestine.'' -- Statement from the Fatah Uprising Guerrilla Group in Damascus, Nov. 16 1988

Arafat Declares Palestine Independance

Part 136 – NOVEMBER 15 1988 From 1965, I was of the opinion that Arafat was not serious in his expressed desire to fight Israel. He wanted to be a movie star… Ahmed Jibril, Founder and Head of the PFLP-GC

Nancy Reagan blames president aides for Irangate

Part 135 – NOVEMBER 14 1988 ''The President did not know what was going on, and that's not right. I think it will be seen in the context it should be seen in - that he was badly served by people on his staff.'' - Nancy Reagan, NYT Nov. 14 1988

The South African Connection

Part 134 – NOVEMBER 13 1988 It would be immoral for me to abandon Libya after it had helped the ANC to fight apartheid which has been one of the most brutal systems in the world. - President Nelson Mandela

London denies hostage deal with Tehran

Part 132 – NOVEMBER 11 1988 I had wondered just how high a price we had paid to insure that Syria came into the hostilities [of the Gulf war] on the side of the West. Great Britain resumption of diplomatic relations was part of the price. Another part concerned the Lockerbie affair. - David Yallop -- The Hunt for the Jackal

German judge release PFLP=GC Bombs maker

Part 131 – NOVEMBER 10 1988 Q Did a trial take place under Italian law, in the absence of those three named individuals? Q Were they convicted? A They were. Q And were -- and were heavy prison sentences imposed? A They were. Q I think, in particular, Khreesat was sentenced to 18 years in prison? A He was, sir. Transcript of the Lockerbie Trial at Camp Zeist

BKA releases warning to Interpol

Part 130 – NOVEMBER 9 1988 ''Arafat should be denied access to our country until he and the P.L.O. renounce terrorism as a tool of foreign policy. The letter also said the P.L.O. should formally recognize Israel's right to exist and accept United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 as the framework for peace in the Middle East.'' - Letter from 51 senators to Secretary of State George P. Shultz

Khalid Jaafar arrives in Germany

Part 129 – NOVEMBER 8 1988 "A negotiated settlement to the issue of Palestinian independence that excluded Syrian involvement was not on Assad agenda. It has never been. It will never be." - David Yallop -- The Hunt for the Jackal

PLO: Best hope is Palestinian mini-state

Part 128 – NOVEMBER 7 1988 ''We must have a realistic program and I say this in a loud voice; a program in which Israelis feel that we really wish to co-exist with them and that afterward the two people, Israelis and Palestinians, decide their future course.'' - Salah Khalaf, known as Abu Iyad, the No. 2 P.L.O. leader

Grand Jury investigating Perjury in Iran Contra Affair

Part 127 – NOVEMBER 6 1988 "Only half of the Iran-Contra Affair had been made public." - Former MOSSAD Agent Amiram Nir Interview with Bob Woodward, August 1998

The PFLP-GC Bomb Maker Calls Jordan Intelligence

"I can not give you any further details regarding my involvement." - Marwan Khreesat, Interrogation by BKA officers October 27 1988

US Rescue team betrayed by American double agent

Part 125 – NOVEMBER 4 1988 That George Bush has never condemned the arms-to-Iran deal as anything worse than a ''mistake'' hardly suggests that he has learned to be wary of covert action. As President, the greater possibility is that he will once again give his old comrades of the C.I.A. the green light for their secret, dangerous, often harebrained schemes. - New York Times, Nov. 4 1988

PFLP-GC Tribunal Sentences Ramzi Diab to death

Part 124 – NOVEMBER 3 1988 I had the understanding that the BKA presumed that Ramzi could be, or was indeed, one of the men, or the man himself, who transported the explosive material of the type that exploded at Lockerbie. BKA Wittness German Hock