Kill 290 innocents: Get an award for bravery

Vincennes target crew

How do you kill 290 innocent people: men, women, including 66 children?

And how do you get a medal for bravery in action against America's imagined enemies? 

 

The Vincennes: Bravery in action. 

290 dead pilgrims

July 1988. Iran vows revenge against the USA

July 1988.  CLICK HERE to see how you do it. See the maps, the paranoia, the stupidity. America called it an unfortunate mistake. Yet they gave the captain a medal for bravery in action against an enemy.

290 murdered Iranian pilgrims. This was the reason for the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 innocent people.  At least, that's what CIA classified reports said for almost two years. 

After that, America needed Syrian and Iranian support in the 1991 Gulf war. So an easy target was required as some kind of scapegoat. Those CIA reports were quietly shelved, and in November 1991, out of the blue, came evidence against Libya. 

Bomb timer fragment? Forensic witness perjury or negligence

Unfortunately for America and the British, that evidence has been shown to be based on negligence or perjury,

The identification witness: Multi-million dollar payments

and multi-million dollar payments to the sole identification witness, "provided he gives evidence" [Words of US Department of Justice, in a letter to the Lockerbie chief police investigator].