Pan Am Flight 103 Research Paper

Omar Abutaleb
Mr. Terry
English IV-6
2 November 2017

Intro
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the country Scotland departing from London 38 minutes in the air. The 259 passengers on the plane were killed as well as 11 people roaming the ground. One theory suggested that it was revenge for the Iran air flight 655, and the leader responsible for this was Ahmed Jibril. Another theory proposed that it was really a cover-up of a CIA drug smuggling ring. One more theory that many believe is true that Abu Nidal, a popular international terrorist, was acting on behalf of Colonel Gaddafi.
There are many conspiracies to who executed the Lockerbrie bombing. Although there are signs that indicate it was the Libyans that were

He had put fragments in the Toshiba cassette recorder to be read undetected boarding the plane. When he was released due to terminal prostate cancer some believe that he was paroled because he made a deal with BP to drill for oil in Libya. The CIA drug smuggling portrayed the government allowing the CIA to bypass the security to board drugs in exchange for a bomb. This operation was held to get an insight on where Palestinians are holding the hostages in Syria. A theory that got a lot of attention at the time suggested that Iran had a revenge motive because of the shooting of the Iran Air Airbus. It is believed that Iran requested Abu Nidal and Libya to bomb Pan Am Flight 103. The suitcase containing the bomb allegedly had one of the passengers' name on

They did not have any materialistic evidence to prove what really happened.
Dr. Hans Köchler is a university professor that was nominated by the United Nations to examine the case file for Megrahi. "The mission was to blow up a Pan Am flight 103 that was to be almost entirely booked by US military personnel on Christmas leave. The flight was supposed to be a direct flight from Frankfurt, GE, to New York, not Pan Am Flight 103 which was routed through London, UK"(Köchler). Köchler, Hans. “WikiUrls.com.” Http://Cnn.com | URL Wiki, 10 Apr. 2017 Less than 6 months before the bombing, "Over 290 passengers were killed when US forces shot down an Iran Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, including over 66 children. Investigative reporter Paul Foot believes that this is the most likely scenario and that Libya was actually framed by the British and Americans" this is most likely true because Iranians were very dubious to believe the US had accidently shot down the Iran Airbus with a warship missile