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The Lockerbie Bombing

Author : Kenny MacAskill
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785901060
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Lockerbie Bombing written by Kenny MacAskill and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard and devastating the small Scottish town of Lockerbie below. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, though few believe that he acted alone. In 2009, a request was made by Libya for al-Megrahi's release from prison on compassionate grounds after he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The decision to grant or deny that request fell squarely and exclusively on the shoulders of one man: Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Justice Secretary from 2007 to 2014. Detailing the build-up to the atrocity and the carnage left in its wake, MacAskill narrates the international investigation that followed and the diplomatic intrigue that saw a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands. He describes the controversial release of al-Megrahi, explains the international dimensions involved and lays bare the commercial and security interests that ran in the background throughout the investigation and trial. Finally, he answers how and why it happened – and who was really responsible for the worst terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil before or since.

Libya and the West

Author : Geoff L. Simons
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860649882
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Libya and the West written by Geoff L. Simons and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his successful coup d'etat in 1969, the young and brash Colonel Muammar Qadhafi broke many of Libya's residual colonial links, but at a huge cost - a new authoritarianism which became increasingly repressive as the country was condemned to pariah status by an America exasperated with Libya's radicalism and apparent links to terrorist groups. The final irony, as Libya now seeks to carve a fresh path in the 21st century, is that the most dramatic episode in the country's recent history - the accusation that it masterminded the Lockerbie tragedy - has provided a way for Libya to achieve at least some rehabilitation within the international community, by acceding to the trial of two of its citizens and appearing to tolerate (albeit under protest) the guilty verdict on one. This text describes the principal events which have shaped contemporary Libya. It reviews Libya's independence process, its territorial disputes with neighbours, the many abuses of human rights perpetrated by the Qadhafi regime, state terrorism and the US manipulation of the United Nations in its confrontation with Libya. Published in association with the Centre for Libyan Studies, Oxford.

The Lockerbie Bombing

Author : Jim Swire
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788853059
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Lockerbie Bombing written by Jim Swire and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father details his loss, grief, and fight for the truth following his daughter’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War II. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then, it has been revealed that the United States paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world’s most shocking events. Praise for The Lockerbie Bombing “It is hard to read this book without concluding that Dr Swire is right, and that for reasons that are both understandable and shameful, successive British governments repeated obstructed the investigation and they did so at the instigation of our American allies. . . . This book recounts Swire’s long and painful search for the truth about Lockerbie and his version is persuasive. It is disturbing too because, if he has it right, the Scottish judges who have now three times rejected appeals against the original verdict, have made it hard to have confidence in the integrity of our law.” —The Scotsman “Fascinating, compelling—a book about international intrigue, personal feelings, and ethics. Right at its heart is the search for truth.” —Kate Adie “Lockerbie's heartrending epitaph. . . . A shattering tale of grief and love.” —Daily Mail

Megrahi: You are My Jury

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857902326
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Megrahi: You are My Jury written by John Ashton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You know me as the Lockerbie bomber. I know that I'm innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain's worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release. Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury'. (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi). For the first time the man known as 'the Lockerbie bomber' tells his story. This long-awaited book argues that, far from being an unrepentant terrorist, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the innocent victim of dirty politics, a flawed investigation and judicial folly. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock. Megrahi: You Are My Jury makes a compelling argument that the murderers of the 270 Lockerbie victims were acting on behalf of an entirely different government, rather than Colonel Gadafy and Libya.

Destroying Libya and World Order

Author : Francis A. Boyle
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 098603620X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Destroying Libya and World Order written by Francis A. Boyle and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took three decades for the United States government-spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)-to terminate the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with that from the perspective of an international law professor and lawyer who tried for over three decades to stop it. Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NA TO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and beyond. He sets the record straight on the series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office. Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice-and the unjust resolution of those disputes. Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”. He addresses how R2P served as the basis for the NATO assault on Libya in 2011, overriding the UN Charter commitment to state sovereignty and prevention of aggression. The purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000 Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali-with the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble for the natural resources of Africa. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries.

The Forgotten Flight

Author : Stuart H. Newberger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786070936
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Flight written by Stuart H. Newberger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 September 1989, 170 people were killed when French Airlines UTA Flight 772 was destroyed by a suitcase bomb while en route from Chad to Paris. Despite being one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in history, it remained overshadowed by the Lockerbie tragedy that had taken place ten months earlier. Both attacks were carried out at the instruction of Libyan dictator Qaddafi, but while “Lockerbie” became synonymous with international terrorism, UTA 772 became the “forgotten flight”. As a lawyer, Stuart H. Newberger represented the families of the seven Americans killed in the UTA 772 attack. Now he brings all the pieces together to tell its story for the first time, revealing in riveting prose how French investigators cracked the case and taking us inside the courtroom to witness the litigation against the Libyan state that followed. In the age of globalization, The Forgotten Flight provides a fascinating insight into the pursuit of justice across international borders.

The Price of Terror

Author : Allan Gerson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061750336
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Terror written by Allan Gerson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable—as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law—a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself. Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families’ quest for justice. In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle—that of accountability under the law—was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, Newsweek writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland—and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims.

Libya: The Struggle for Survival

Author : G L Simons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349226335
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Libya: The Struggle for Survival written by G L Simons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lockerbie

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750985772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Lockerbie written by Douglas Boyd and published by History Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Britain's worst terrorist attack

Libya

Author : Alison Pargeter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300139322
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Libya written by Alison Pargeter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an in-depth analysis of Muammar Qaddafi's complete reign in Libya, from his bloodless coup in 1969 to his institution of policies that mirrored his personal vision to his downfall during the 2011 revolt.

Flight 103

Author : Sam Green
Publisher : Century
ISBN 13 : 9781846052705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Flight 103 written by Sam Green and published by Century. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Israeli Secret Service officer Sam Woolfman is about to be plunged into the most deadly conspiracy of his career. He has been called out of retirement to investigate the terror attack that occurred onboard an American jet that has crashed in the Scottish village of Lockerbie. A bomb clearly detonated inside the aircraft, but who planted it? Who were they working for? And who were they really trying to kill? As Sam starts to unravel the mystery, a global conspiracy of terrifying proportions involving Iran, Lebanon, and even the CIA takes shape. Most terrifying of all, Sam knows that if he finds the real answer, he might be the next to die.

Libya

Author : Ronald Bruce St. John
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781851685981
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Libya written by Ronald Bruce St. John and published by ONEWorld Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early History -- Ottoman Occupation, 1551-1911 -- Second Ottoman occupation (1835-1911) -- Italian Colonial Era, 1911-43 -- Struggle for independence, 1943-51 -- United Kingdom of Libya, 1951-69 -- One September Revolution, 1969-73 -- Revolution on the move, 1973-86 -- Consolidation and reform, 1986-98 -- Libya resurgent -- Libya: from colony to independence

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky

Author : Ken Dornstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307386910
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky written by Ken Dornstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.

The Illegal War on Libya

Author : Cynthia McKinney
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0985335327
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Illegal War on Libya written by Cynthia McKinney and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO�s purported humanitarian intervention. Prefaced by Ramsey Clark, this collection of essays includes scholarly and legal analysis, as well as personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to protect, and the massive media propaganda campaign that made it possible. It responds to the many questions left unanswered by a complicit mainstream media, such as: � Why Libya, not Bahrain, Yemen or Egypt? � What was life in Libya like under Qadhafi? � What is the truth about the so-called �Black Mercenaries”? � What was the role of Western NGOs and the International Criminal Court? � What about Africom�s Plans for Africa? � What did it have to do with Liby�a independent central bank, its oil, its plans for an African currency, its efforts to free African states from the coils of the Bretton Woods Institutions? Cynthia McKinney and other contributors to this volume were in Libya during the period of the NATO bombardment of Libyan cities, and were among the few independent voices to report on the tragedy.

Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Sanja Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442203978
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa written by Sanja Kelly and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.

Sandstorm

Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123602
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Sandstorm written by Lindsey Hilsum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and astonishing reckoning with the Gaddafi regime, from one of our most acclaimed and gifted international journalists The fall of Muammar Gaddafi, who was for forty-two years the great autocrat-madman on the world stage, is among the past decade’s most dramatic turning points. In Lindsey Hilsum, a renowned British correspondent for over a quarter century, the end of the Gaddafi regime has found its definitive chronicler. Following six individuals living through this time of unprecedented danger and opportunity, Hilsum tells the full story of the Libyan revolution—from the uprising of the early months through the toppling of Gaddafi’s regime and his savage death in the desert. For the paperback edition, Hilsum brings her analysis up to the present day—with new material on the killing of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the July elections, and the Benghazi anti-militia demonstrations—and explores what the future of Libya will bring.

Libya

Author : John Oakes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752471082
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Libya written by John Oakes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Libya has evolved from Ottoman province to international pariah to seething cauldron of rebellion. For more than four decades, Libya has been something of an enigma to outsiders. Ruled by the despotic and unstable Muammar Gaddafi since he led a military coup in 1969, it has vast oil wealth and one of the highest standards of living in Africa. Yet it has also been one of the most prolific state sponsors of terrorism (supplying arms and explosives to the IRA, perpetrating the Lockerbie bombing) and dissent has, until recently, been crushed ruthlessly. In early 2011 a popular uprising against Gaddafi, a dictator nicknamed 'Mad Dog' by Ronald Reagan, finally looks as if he might be toppled from power, as the wind of change blows through North Africa and the Middle East. John Oakes, who lived and worked in Libya for eight years before the revolution, provides an essential guide to the country and its history, including what led Gaddafi to make Libya an international pariah and the events of the 2011 revolt.