Dr. Ludwig de Braeckeleer

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

FAA Alerts Airlines Regarding PFLP-GC Toshiba Bomb

Part 123 – NOVEMBER 2 1988 ''Where we have seen flexibility [from Moscow], it has come because the price of aggression was too high - because we supported the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.'' - Presidential Candidate G. Bush, Speech in Fulton, Montana

SAPO arrests several PPSF members

Part 122 – NOVEMBER 1 1988 "Abu talb knows about the Pan Am flight 103 that crashed in Lockerbie and I think he was worried because he knew some of these persons [members of the PFLP-GC] who had been arrested in Germany and he was frightened in case one of them would give his name. [...] I think he was worried in case West German authorities would find out he had some knowledge of Pan Am 103." - Mahmoud Moghrabi, interview with Swedish Police

October Intelligence Summary

Part 121 – OCTOBER 31 1988 President Hashemi Rafsanjani has commissioned the bombing of the [Pan Am 103] jet in the summer of 1988, when he was the Speaker of Parliament. We know who did. From an intelligence point of view, the case is solved. - Vincent Cannistraro, Head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center, November 21st 1990 [1]

FBI Special Agent Thomas Thurman

Part 120 – OCTOBER 30 1988 "No court is likely get to the truth [regarding the bombing of Pan Am 103], now that various intelligence agencies have had the opportunity to corrupt the evidence." - Oliver Miles, Former British Ambassador to Libya Thomas Thurman [1] worked for the FBI forensics laboratory in the late 80s and most of the 90s. Thurman has been publicly credited for identifying a tiny fragment as part of a MST_13 timer produced by the Swiss company Mebo.

Dr. Thomas Hayes - From Forensic expert to Chiropodist

Part 119 – OCTOBER 29, 1988 And yet he [Dr Thomas Hayes] seemed reluctant to tell the court why or when he'd retired to start a new career as a chiropodist. When did he start work at Fort Halstead? In July 1974. And when did he leave? "The exact date of my leaving is a little circumspect, but I believe it was in 1990." He actually retired in 1989, a year that for him may have been circumspect, but was, in relation to our trial, most significant. - Dr Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, Extract from their forthcoming book: The people who moved the world.