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Originally Posted by rebound
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That's not me!
I do post on lots of forums, but always use Eric5273 as it is my name followed by birthday.
As for Iran being involved, that has been known for many years. There were books on this written not long after it happened which did detailed investigations and determined that Iran was behind the bombing. But as usual, our corrupt leaders twisted it so they could blame someone who had nothing to do with it.
As the article says:
Lawyers for al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of bombing the London to New York flight on December 21, 1988, claim that British and US authorities tampered with evidence, disregarded witness statements and steered investigators away from evidence that the bombing was an Iranian-financed plot carried out by Palestinians to avenge the shooting down of a civilian Iranian airliner by US forces several months earlier.
I bet you didn't know that the American Navy shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988, did you?
BBC: 1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner
An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf has shot down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for an F-14 fighter.
All those on board the airliner - almost 300 people - are believed dead.
The plane, an Airbus A300, was making a routine flight from Bandar Abbas, in Iran, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The USS Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner.
Navy officials said the Vincennes' crew believed they were firing at an Iranian F14 jet fighter, although they had not confirmed this visually.
The plane blew up six miles from the Vincennes, the wreckage falling in Iranian territorial waters. [i.e. plane was over Iranian waters]
Iranian ships and helicopters have been searching for survivors but none have so far been found. Iranian television broadcast scenes of bodies floating amid scattered debris.