Nurse Ratched 3:25 Sat Dec 15
Lockerbie
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6498241/The-haunting-details-Lockerbie-bombing-revealed-devastatingly-moving-minute-minute-account.html
This is a good read.
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Far Cough
3:29 Sat Dec 15
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Nurse, I finished reading the one on the BBC website a few days ago, very sombre reading
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joe royal
3:36 Sat Dec 15
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I drove past Lockerbie early hours this morning.
I’m now parked at the 02.
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Nurse Ratched
3:46 Sat Dec 15
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I spent a week in Lockerbie in the mid-90s. It was quiet and eerie, but for all I know it might have been like that before the crash. Strangest thing was seeing loads of photos of David Coulthard in the front windows of the houses.
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Coffee
3:47 Sat Dec 15
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That's tough reading.
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bruuuno
4:40 Sat Dec 15
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My uncle is a fireman up there and helped go round gathering up the bodies. He found one bloke enbedded in a golf course like a spear and another girl still strapped in her seat with her fingers crossed
:-(
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Mike Oxsaw
4:43 Sat Dec 15
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Hah! Started reading this - agree it's very tough, but the moment I got to the end of the first sentence, Joan Armatrading's "Drop the Pilot" popped up on my jukebox for musical company.
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Crassus
4:55 Sat Dec 15
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Blimey that's grim
And all that time ago yet so fresh in the mind
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The Stoat
6:03 Sat Dec 15
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A fella I knew was on the plane going on his honeymoon, he used to play bass guitar with a mates band The Warm Jets and also played with Be-Bop Deluxe and Cockney Rebel. East Ham lad as well :-(
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Nurse Ratched
6:09 Sat Dec 15
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Everything about this atrocity was more than usually vile, including the deliberate stitch up and scapegoating of Megrahi and Libya
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Far Cough
6:44 Sat Dec 15
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Johnny Rotten and his missus were supposed to be on the flight
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Leonard Hatred
7:00 Sat Dec 15
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Good article.
I always seem to chance upon something like this every time I'm about to fly somewhere.
I'll be remembering this on my flight to Arizona on Tuesday 😡
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Leonard Hatred
7:01 Sat Dec 15
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NR
Did Libya/McGrathi not do it then?
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Far Cough
7:02 Sat Dec 15
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I don't know about Megrahi but Libya were definitely implicated weren't they?
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Nurse Ratched
7:02 Sat Dec 15
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Sorry, Len.
But at least those cacti would provide a nice soft landing.
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Nurse Ratched
7:05 Sat Dec 15
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No.
Almost certainly Palestinians. Sub-contracted by Iran. Revenge for the US shooting an Oranian plane out of the sky.
Then when Bush wanted to invade Iraq, he needed Iran and Syria onboard. So the UK Govt was told to drop their investigation (which was pointing towards Iran) as it would be a bit awkward diplomatically.
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Far Cough
7:08 Sat Dec 15
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Until 2003, Libya had never formally admitted carrying out the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council. Felicity Barringer of The New York Times said that the letter had "general language that lacked any expression of remorse" for the people killed in the bombing.[95] The letter stated that it "accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials".[96]
Wiki
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terry-h
7:10 Sat Dec 15
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Almost as sad as this atrocity was the fact that Lorraine Kelly made her name as the local jock reporter on Lockerbie and subsequently got a promotion to London television. Can't stand the woman and her accent.
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Nurse Ratched
7:20 Sat Dec 15
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In order to unlock worldwide economic sanctions that were crippling them. It was as good as blackmail.
Have a read around, Cough.
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