Lockerbie: Chronicle of a Death Foretold By Ludwig de Braeckeleer

Governments lie. They do it all the time. And, much as we’d like to believe otherwise, the US government is no exception. There were times when we may have believed otherwise. But after Vietnam and Watergate, we know better.—The USS Vincennes: Public War, Secret War, July 1 1992, ABC News, Ted Koppel.

In some sense, the true and enduring mystery of the Lockerbie bombing is why so few people died. If one is willing to accept the official version of the tragedy, is it not indeed a miracle that an airliner flying from London to New York at Christmas time was actually half booked? 

"270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. [1] It was the worst-ever act of airline terrorism against the United States. It’s also been called the world’s biggest unsolved murder,” wrote John Biewen and Ian Ferguson in their brilliant piece “Shadow over Lockerbie”. [2] Nearly 20 years later, the crime remains unsolved.

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