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00:00How's witness protection?
00:22Yeah, it's good.
00:23How's it going with families?
00:24Family civil suits against Pan Am just started.
00:26Bob Minetti and his family just won theirs.
00:28This is PT-35.
00:31We looked at it under magnification and found this.
00:34What the hell is Mebo?
00:38He's admitted to making the timers and selling them to the ESO.
00:43Do you recognize the person in that sketch?
00:45I think that could be a man I knew as Abdel Bassett.
00:47Let's get this over to our shopkeeper on Malta and see if he actually recognizes him as the shopper.
00:53I think it could be him.
00:54Abdel Bassett Al-McGrady, senior intelligence officer in the ESO.
00:57You'll find two more names in there.
00:59Ahmed Khalifa Abdu Samad and Abu Aguirre Masud.
01:02Masud flew into Malta on the 7th of December.
01:06And what about Abdu Samad?
01:07He did visit for one night later that month.
01:10The number that Abu Samad called from the hotel belongs to a Libyan man named Laman Khalifa Fima.
01:16He was recently a station manager for Libyan Airlines.
01:18The diary says, get tags for Abdel Bassett.
01:21Luggage tags.
01:23The CIA have an asset.
01:24His name is Jacka, a Libyan ESO agent.
01:27And what does he want?
01:28Safe passage for him and his wife.
01:30Did you see Fima at the airport in December?
01:32I did see Fima with a suitcase.
01:34It was like this one.
01:35Look at this.
01:36McGrawi's card from when he arrived in Malta is filled out in the same block capitals as Abdu Samad's later that month.
01:41That's why we haven't been able to find a photo for Abdu Samad.
01:46He is McGrawi.
01:47What do you think, Dick?
01:48I think we got him.
01:54Today, almost three years after the Lockerbie Air Disaster, Britain and America pointed the finger of guilt at Libya.
02:02The evidence is overwhelming, according to President Bush's administration.
02:06Gaddafi insists the two Libyan suspects named as the bombers are innocent,
02:10and a fair trial would be impossible in America or Britain.
02:14The UN Security Council will move to sanctions.
02:17Almost all neighbouring countries are refusing Libya permission to fly its aircraft into their airspace.
02:24Our nation will never stop pursuing justice.
02:29Mr Blair is facing questions over the Lockerbie investigation.
02:32The South African President Nelson Mandela backs Libyan demands for the trial to be held in a neutral country.
02:37Britain and the United States have promised to back the lifting of sanctions against Libya as soon as the men are handed over.
02:44We are on the way to resolving all the outstanding issues.
02:49So the years of diplomatic efforts have finally paid off with a handover of the two Libyan suspects.
02:54The two men were committed for further examination and remanded in custody at HM Prison Zeist.
03:00Piers Salinger for ABC is the only reporter with access to interview the two men accused of murdering 270 people.
03:11Al-Amin Khalifa Fima's diary is key for U.S. authorities.
03:15Allegedly, Fima made a note in this diary to remind him to get hold of Air Malta luggage tags,
03:19one of which was used to label the suitcase containing the bomb.
03:22Abdul Bassad Al-Megrahi stands accused of masterminding the bombing of Pan Am 103, a charge he strongly refutes.
03:35The accusation is wrong, truly.
03:37I am DCS Tom McCulloch.
03:49Many of you remember my predecessors, John Orr and Stuart Henderson.
03:54I am honoured to be following in their footsteps as SIO on the case as we approach the trial.
04:00A trial that I am aware you have waited a long, long time for.
04:04The foreign secretary has recently stated that there was no reasonable prospect of the accused being delivered for trial in Scotland.
04:13But he thinks there is a chance that they will be delivered for trial in a third country,
04:18as many families here have long proposed as the only solution.
04:23What we have arrived at is a plan that the trial will take place in a Scottish court in the Netherlands.
04:30Sorry, why the Netherlands?
04:32As the host nation of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court,
04:37the Netherlands was suggested by Libya and others.
04:41We're letting Libya pick the venue.
04:44With just two men standing trial to represent a whole state.
04:49Our goal was indictments against all involved.
04:54But what we know is different than what we can prove.
04:58We've waited 11 years for a trial and this is the best that we get.
05:02The rule of law is all we have.
05:05What's the alternative?
05:06We resort to revenge and retaliation and more lockerbees.
05:12I agree.
05:13To have a trial date and a venue set is an achievement and it is your achievement.
05:18The work of families in Britain and America has made Libya realise that there will be consequences
05:24for the mass murder of your loved ones, friends and neighbours.
05:29The UN has implemented the fiercest sanctions possible.
05:34Your lobbying efforts has effectively ground the Libyan economy to a halt and forced Mr Gaddafi to the table.
05:41The trial may be in the Netherlands, but it will still be under Scottish law.
05:47It will be a little part of Holland that is briefly Scotland.
05:53There'll be a Scottish jury?
05:54No, a panel of three judges.
05:56The Lord Advocate recognised that it's unreasonable to ask a Scottish jury to spend many months away from their families.
06:02Yet you're asking us to.
06:03My wife, Linda, died never knowing the truth of what happened to her own son.
06:10I am very sorry to hear that, truly.
06:13It makes it even more important that the rest of us be there to participate.
06:30My son would have been 30 this year.
06:33He might have had his own kids.
06:36Your family's determination over this past decade, it's been inspiring.
06:43I want to be there to look those men in the eye.
06:46But I don't see how we can attend a long trial in Europe.
06:49Yeah, I mean, financially it's impossible.
06:51Most families in our group are just ornery people trying to get by.
06:56Look, it's a long shot.
06:58But I've been working on a plan.
07:02And it's one I hope to take to the Attorney General.
07:05You've got me, yeah, that's the news.
07:14Hi.
07:14Mr. Marquise.
07:16Thanks for flying in at such short notice.
07:19Not at all.
07:19It's a critical moment.
07:21Hi.
07:21Alistair Campbell, QC.
07:23This is Alan Turnbull, QC.
07:24Dick Marquise, FBI.
07:25All right.
07:28We all know why we're here.
07:31We have a witness problem.
07:33Gouch, he's pulled out.
07:34He says his family has suffered enough already with all the attention the case has brought.
07:39Do we have a legal avenue?
07:41Well, the UK doesn't have an agreement with Malta to compel witnesses, no.
07:46So what are our options?
07:47Make him feel safe enough to change his mind and travel willingly.
07:52But at this stage, that is a big ask.
07:55So where are we with the other key witnesses?
07:58Bollier and Jacka.
08:00Ultimately, we just don't know which way Bollier will go.
08:04Well, he knows that Gaddafi's regime is ruthless.
08:08If Bollier goes back on the testimony he gave in the Swiss court, then Jacka becomes even more key.
08:14He's our inside man at the airport linking FEMA to the plot.
08:17But credibility is always a stretch with paid informants.
08:22Well, regardless, I'm not entirely sure that Jacka's going to testify either.
08:26What, is he scared of character assassination?
08:30What, that an actual assassination?
08:33His wife? Kids?
08:34Even though they're in your federal witsick?
08:37You've never lost a witness?
08:40You secure Jacka.
08:41We'll do everything we can to salvage the situation with Mr. Kouchy.
08:45Copy.
08:47The fight to protect witnesses continues.
08:55And now, you're joining it.
08:58Our job, on a major murder case or big drugs bust, is simple.
09:05To make sure those that tell the truth do not suffer for it.
09:15So, any questions, guys?
09:17Okay.
09:19That's it for the day.
09:20DCS McCulloch?
09:28Oh, I know, sir.
09:30How's preparation for the trial going?
09:33We need your help with Mr. Gadfee in Malta.
09:38Okay.
09:38He's refusing to testify?
09:39He needs reassurance that we can properly protect him and his family.
09:45John O'Reilly said your witsick expertise would come in handy if we ever made it to trial.
09:50He said that we can always rely on you.
09:53That's still the case?
09:56Absolutely, sir.
09:57This takes us up to June, so we have to find a way to...
10:04How is Scotland?
10:07Complicated.
10:08How did you get into the building?
10:09I said we had a meeting.
10:11And do we have a meeting?
10:11Well, we do now.
10:12What's this?
10:19It's a proposal we drew up with Attorney General Reno at the Office of Victims for Crime
10:24to fund families' travel to the trial.
10:27Travel?
10:30Catherine, this is a lot of families, especially for a trial that could last months.
10:35I mean, this would be millions of dollars.
10:36I know.
10:37It's a tough ask.
10:40And what's this?
10:41It is a second proposal for families that can't travel.
10:44So I'm pushing for a video feed into remote viewing sites that we'd set up in New York,
10:49London, D.C., and Dumfries, which is near Lockerbie.
10:52The Scottish legal system can be very specific.
10:55Cameras in the courtroom, it's not really their style.
10:58It's a first, but I'm already in touch with their Lord Advocate.
11:00Of course you are.
11:02I just don't want you to get your hopes up.
11:04I thank you in advance for your support.
11:06Call me tomorrow.
11:07Mm-hmm.
11:08Mm-hmm.
11:11We're managing the witness problem as best we can, so what else can sink our case?
11:18Well, we need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Megrahi is Abdus Samad.
11:23Hmm.
11:24And what's the defensive strategy going to be?
11:27They may try and bring up Jafar's name again.
11:29They'll certainly argue that Megrahi wasn't in Malta at the time.
11:32And that he only had one passport.
11:35We have Megrahi's handwriting on the Abdus Samad embarkation card.
11:38Yes, but what we really need is the Abdus Samad passport itself,
11:43which proves that Megrahi was in Malta on the 21st of December,
11:46travelling on a false passport.
11:49My team in Libya raided Megrahi's house.
11:54And?
11:55We found no sign of it.
11:56But the investigation continues.
11:59Right, well, let us know if there's a breakthrough.
12:01Absolutely.
12:01Absolutely.
12:01Absolutely.
12:01Absolutely.
12:08Tony Gauci.
12:11Who are you?
12:12What do you want?
12:13I'm Ed McCusker.
12:15I run Scotland's witness protection programme.
12:20He's not a witness anymore.
12:22You are?
12:23Paul Gauci, Tony's brother.
12:26The stress from your case already killed our father.
12:28You want him dead too?
12:31Go.
12:37I'm sorry to hear about your father.
12:38Hello, Mary's house.
12:40Hmm.
12:42Here you go, man.
12:45There's nothing here, man.
12:47Come.
12:50There you go, man.
12:52May 3rd's the day most of the families never thought they'd see, Tony.
12:5611 years, 200 witnesses, half a million pages of evidence,
12:59all building to this.
13:05Look, I can understand if you're nervous
13:07about the consequences of testifying.
13:10If you've been threatened, intimidated,
13:11you need adequate protection.
13:15I have protection.
13:17Okay.
13:17Easy there.
13:23A Libyan man came into the shop last time,
13:25looking around for a long time.
13:26Okay.
13:26Okay.
13:26Well, you're a shop.
13:28He didn't buy anything.
13:28He wasn't here to shop.
13:29Tony,
13:30even if you don't take the stand,
13:32you need a proper security plan,
13:34and one that doesn't involve antique weapons, okay?
13:38I can start small.
13:39Better luck.
13:39CCTV cameras.
13:40SIS are keeping a close eye on Malta for us.
13:45They said there's no serious threat right now.
13:46My point is,
13:47we're committed to doing everything necessary to keep you safe.
13:50Yes, but what about McGraw here in Femach?
13:53They're in a purpose-built,
13:54high-security jail attached to the court.
13:57No interaction with you.
13:59Arm guards,
14:00bomb detection stations,
14:01sniffer dogs are full business.
14:02You wouldn't be called straight away.
14:10You've got time.
14:14Think about it.
14:15You've got time.
14:45We don't have many visitors.
15:04You're happy here?
15:05We are safe here.
15:07But we won't be safe if I testify in court.
15:11What you say on the stand is up to you,
15:13but we do need you to testify.
15:16Testify to what?
15:18I can tell the court that Migrahi and Fahima
15:22were both Libyan ESO agents,
15:24but everybody knows that.
15:26I saw them with the suitcase at the airport,
15:30but the media is saying I am eyewitness to the whole bombing.
15:34It's not true.
15:36I'm settled to fail.
15:40Skutoshwe!
15:40Arakou!
15:43The judges still need to hear from you.
15:45I'm not sure.
15:46I'm not sure.
15:46Majid, you have to listen to me.
15:48Libyan would let me stay silent.
15:59Why did you leave, Libyan?
16:08I don't remember.
16:09I do.
16:13You were scared.
16:18That's Gaddafi's version of silence.
16:20You know what I think of Gaddafi's regime?
16:23Yes, I do.
16:26But the world doesn't.
16:27I, uh, I would need my face hidden.
16:42In court?
16:45Yeah, we can do that.
16:47My voice.
16:48Only my voice.
16:48Whatever you need.
16:50Whatever you need.
16:51What matters is that you're heard.
17:00You won funding for every American family that wants to travel?
17:04No, we won funding for all families, anywhere in the world,
17:08who want to travel to the trial or to the designated viewing sites.
17:12You persuaded the Lord Advocate to permit a remote feed?
17:17We did.
17:19Cameras will be allowed in a Scottish courtroom for the first time.
17:22I knew you were a fighter the first time I met you, Catherine.
17:27Thanks for fighting with us.
17:28Okay, I just spoke with McCulloch.
17:38The defense have submitted the passport in the name of Abdus Samad,
17:41and McCulloch's team have found the Libyan passport official who issued it,
17:46El Garur.
17:47So, could he back up Jacques' claim that McGrahi and FEMA were ESO operatives?
17:53Potentially.
17:54The question is, how do we get him to testify?
17:57Why would Gaddafi allow it?
17:59Well, he allowed, eventually, these two defendants to stand trial,
18:03so he has a history when it comes to offering sacrificial lambs.
18:08He'd still rather spare them.
18:10Complete humiliation of the West, vindication of all his denials.
18:14It's worth a try.
18:17It's the biggest mass murder trial in British history,
18:24with more than 1,200 witnesses.
18:27The world's press have descended on this disused airbase to report the trial,
18:31and this morning, relatives of victims have been arriving from America.
18:35These people have spent 12 years waiting for explanations,
18:3912 years praying for justice.
18:41This is why we're here. This is my daughter. It's C.O. Cohen.
18:44But they're frustrated that only two men are on trial.
18:47I may be able to see these guys go to jail and live long enough to see them get out,
18:51and that's not justice.
18:52What is really important is to penalize the government
18:57and the people who sent them to do mass murder.
18:59Justice!
18:59Justice!
19:00Justice!
19:00Justice!
19:00Justice!
19:01Justice!
19:01Justice!
19:02Justice!
19:03Justice!
19:04Justice!
19:05Justice!
19:06Justice!
19:07Justice!
19:08Justice!
19:09Right in there.
19:10Sure.
19:11Justice!
19:16I think you can step out at any time,
19:18and one of my team will take you back to the family area
19:21or wherever you need to go.
19:27That is McGrahee's lead QC, Taylor.
19:35And that one?
19:36It's FEMA's lead counsel, Mr. King.
19:39And the witnesses?
19:40They can't be present in a courtroom until they're called.
19:53All rise.
20:10I call upon the clerk of the court to read the indictment.
20:15The charges against you are one between 1st January 1985 and 21st December.
20:231988.
20:25Both being members of the Libyan Intelligence Services and being respectively the head of security of Libyan Arab Airlines and station manager of Libyan Arab Airlines,
20:35you did conspire together and with others to further the purposes of the Libyan Intelligence Services by criminal means,
20:45namely the destruction of the civil aircraft and the murder of its occupants.
20:51And in pursuance of said conspiracy, 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed and you did murder them.
20:59Abdul Basset Ali Mahmed Al-Megrahi, how do you plead?
21:04Guilty or not guilty?
21:05I am not guilty.
21:14Al-Amin Khalifa Fima, how do you plead?
21:17Guilty or not guilty?
21:21Not guilty.
21:22It is our position, my lords, that Mr. McGrahi is not a member of the Libyan Secret Service and was not in any event in Malta when the bomb was allegedly loaded there.
21:37We will show your lordships in the coming weeks that my client, Mr. Fahima, was an ordinary employee of Libyan Airlines in Malta
21:50and that no credible or reliable witness can demonstrate he had knowledge of any plot to bring harm to Pan Am 103.
22:04A momentous day for relatives of the 270 people killed when Pan Am 103 was blown up.
22:11Tomorrow's evidence will begin with the moment Pan Am Flight 103 left the radar screen.
22:16The verdict will come next year.
22:18Mr. Faraday, over the many years you have carried out,
22:48forensic examinations of explosive devices.
22:51Have you built up an expertise in their use and effect?
22:55I've looked at every explosive device with an electronic context that has been found over the last 30 years on the UK mainland.
23:03I've examined perhaps a thousand devices.
23:05Once you'd completed your examinations of the Toshiba Radio Instruction Manual fragments,
23:12you said you worked with the FBI to identify another fragment which you determined to be part of the explosive device.
23:20This bomb damage fragment PT-35 is from a timer circuit board found in the grey slalom shirt.
23:35Photograph 334, he shows it exactly as recovered prior to sample removal.
23:41And did you conduct any comparison exercises with the fragment?
23:46Extensive comparison work, yes sir.
23:48And did you find and report on what a layman might call a match?
23:54Lab men also call it a match.
23:56Yeah, the most fruitful comparison was with control samples of MST-13 timers manufactured by Mebo.
24:05Mebo being a company run by Mr. Bollier, who we will here supply timers to the first defendant.
24:11I take objection, my lord.
24:14My apologies.
24:16Mr. Faraday, might you summarise your report on PT-35?
24:19I concluded that the Mebo timer fragment had an intimate involvement with the explosion.
24:25I wrote in my notes that along with the Sentex,
24:28it represented the only piece of modification to the radio necessary to convert it into a delayed action bomb.
24:37The weeks have turned into months here at Camp Leicester in the Netherlands,
24:41where the Lockerbie trial continues.
24:43Victims' families have heard evidence from hundreds of experts
24:47detailing the immediate aftermath of the bombing.
24:49and the painstaking operation of searching and collecting
24:53the vast quantity of wreckage from the plane.
24:57I do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare
25:03the evidence I shall give shall be the true,
25:07the whole true, and nothing but the true.
25:10Mr. Bollier,
25:17you don't recall
25:20when you began your company with Mr. Meister?
25:23Well, I believe it was in 1970.
25:27Did you own a radio ship back then?
25:29Yes, correct.
25:30Did you sell that radio ship?
25:33Yes, to the Libyan Broadcasting Company.
25:35And did you move on from that to supplying timer devices to Libyan intelligence?
25:47Mr. Bollier, you heard my question?
25:50That is correct.
25:51Timers to Libya, yeah.
25:53Was one of the Libyan intelligence officers who paid you for timers,
25:58Abdel Bassett?
26:00Yes.
26:00A colleague of his was seeking to rent office space for my company in Zürich.
26:06Then later, I met him again in December 1988.
26:12In the weeks before Pan Am 103?
26:15Yes.
26:16Yes, I saw Abdel Bassett again in Pripoli.
26:20And have you seen Abdel Bassett since?
26:28Yes.
26:30I see him today.
26:32He's the first defendant sitting there.
26:37The witness indicates Mr. McGrachy.
26:39Your Lordship, we refer back to footage of Mr. Salinger's interview with Mr. McGrachy for ABC News.
26:47I couldn't recognize a timer, even if you'd give me one now.
26:52I wouldn't know what it is unless you told me.
26:58Mr. Bollier, is this part of one of your timers?
27:02Mr. Bollier, you have previously testified in a Swiss court
27:15that this fragment of timer was created by your company and sold to Libya.
27:21Well, I am not sure.
27:23How can I be sure that this is one of my timers?
27:26Libya could be innocent.
27:28I could be uninvolved.
27:30The CIA should check.
27:32I believe you've had your own interactions with the CIA, Mr. Bollier.
27:37You left a letter at the Vienna Embassy on the 19th of January, 1989.
27:47Well, uh...
27:49One moment, please, Mr. Bollier.
27:52In it, you stated that you knew Libya to be responsible for the Pan Am attack.
27:59Well, but a man in a coat, a mackintosh, made me write that letter.
28:09Let me get this straight.
28:11A mystery man in a mackintosh told you to claim Libya bombed the plane.
28:18He approached me one day, encouraging me to write this fiction to the embassy.
28:29He didn't happen to have a trilby pulled down over his eyes, did he?
28:34What?
28:34No, he didn't.
28:36You recall hearing zither music?
28:44It's unbelievable.
28:46The bereaved left court distressed tonight after evidence they said was hair-raising and chilling.
28:58It may not have had the dramatic impact of last week's evidence, but victims' relatives listen to every word of today's testimony.
29:04We'll be sitting through.
29:06We've been at this 11 and a half years.
29:08They killed our children.
29:10We're not going away.
29:17Look, guys, if there's any chance
29:18of you changing your minds and helping bring justice
29:22to the families,
29:25I'll work for you, Tony.
29:26I will keep you both safe.
29:28I know what I'm asking is not easy.
29:33You guys have got
29:33a lot of history here.
29:38Yes.
29:39Yes, we do.
29:40The only way for you to be completely safe
29:43is witness protection.
29:46And that means different country
29:48and new names.
29:51But her name is Galchi.
29:53What's her father's name?
29:54And what did it stand for?
30:01Good, honest business, loyalty,
30:04and conducting ourselves with honor.
30:08Nothing else.
30:17Paul.
30:21We will go to the Netherlands.
30:24I will try to testify.
30:29We'll go.
30:31And if something happens
30:32that's dangerous
30:33or different from what you promised,
30:37we're finished.
30:38We're gone.
30:43Okay.
30:47Heavily guarded,
30:49his identity concealed,
30:50the Crown's key witness
30:51slipped into Camp Zeist this morning.
30:54A CIA double agent
30:56who also worked
30:57for the Libyan intelligence services,
30:59Abdul Majid Jaka
31:00has been living
31:01in a witness protection program
31:02in the U.S.
31:03for 10 years,
31:04waiting for his day in court.
31:10Witness number 684,
31:13Abdul Majid Abdul Razak,
31:15Abdul Salam Jaka.
31:17Mr. Jaka,
31:18Mr. Jaka,
31:22what age are you?
31:24I am 40 years old.
31:27Born and brought up in Libya?
31:29Yes, in Tripoli.
31:31And did you attend university there?
31:34Yes, I finished my studies in 1983,
31:37and I began working in 1984.
31:40For whom did you begin working?
31:43The Jamaaria Security Organization,
31:46the JSO,
31:48also known as the ESO.
31:50What type of organization was that?
31:53Libya's intelligence agency.
31:56I worked for them,
31:58like many young people do,
32:00better than military service.
32:02And when you moved to Malta,
32:06were you still working in intelligence?
32:08Yes, I took a job
32:11for Libyan Arab Airlines,
32:14a cover job.
32:15All of us in intelligence
32:17had cover jobs.
32:18And what was your specific cover job?
32:22I was made assistant station manager
32:25in Lucha Airport, Malta,
32:29in the airline security section.
32:31And who did you report to?
32:35A more senior intelligence officer,
32:39Abdul Basit Al-Megrahi.
32:41His cover job was
32:43head of airline security section,
32:45and Mr. Fima's job
32:47was our station manager.
32:49So, you had the chance
32:51to observe Mr. Megrahi
32:53and Mr. Fima closely.
32:57Yes.
32:59I became concerned
33:00about what he and Mr. Fima would do
33:02and my organization's involvement
33:05in terrorism.
33:06So, I went to the U.S. Embassy.
33:08No further questions,
33:09Your Lordships.
33:12Mr. Jaka,
33:14to start quite simply,
33:16what date was it in 1988
33:18when you went into
33:19the U.S. Embassy in Malta?
33:21Uh,
33:21Tuesday,
33:25August.
33:26It was the 10th of August, 1988,
33:29if facts matter to you at all.
33:31When you came to the Americans
33:32with your information,
33:34you were living in a
33:35run-down little place, no?
33:38It wasn't in bad shape.
33:39Well, it's a matter of taste,
33:40I suppose.
33:42Whereas now,
33:43you've lived very comfortably
33:44in the U.S. for over nine years.
33:47It's not hard to see why
33:48you might tell the Americans
33:49exciting stories about explosives
33:50and rush tags
33:52lying around
33:53at Mr. Fima's desk.
33:54Or why you claimed
33:56to have met
33:57a mystery associate
33:58of Mr. McGrahi's
33:59named Massoud,
34:00a man
34:01you've never even properly
34:03identified a picture of.
34:04They have found
34:05no pictures of him.
34:07Isn't this all
34:08a series of paid lies?
34:10I, uh...
34:11My information has been...
34:15Aren't you a liar,
34:16Mr. Jaka?
34:16My information
34:17has been consistent.
34:19I went to the Americans
34:20before the plane was bombed
34:22to warn them.
34:24Now, I put it to you,
34:26Mr. Jaka,
34:27that you were
34:28a low-level nobody,
34:29poor of education
34:30and money,
34:31stuck in a nothing job
34:32at an airline in Malta,
34:34who realized
34:35that America
34:35could make anything
34:37possible for you
34:38provided you told them
34:39enough useful lies.
34:42Does that sound
34:43accurate enough?
34:48He undermined
34:56his credibility in there.
34:58He made him look
34:58totally unreliable.
34:59He was terrified.
35:01Credibility is everything
35:02in a courtroom.
35:04I mean,
35:04these judges expect witnesses
35:06that can back up
35:06our claims
35:07that the defendants
35:08executed this plot together,
35:09but now we can't even
35:10definitively put FEMA
35:11at the airport
35:11on the 21st.
35:12Come on,
35:13FEMA's own diary.
35:14No, the diary's not enough.
35:16I mean,
35:16we have to show
35:17that any assistance
35:18he gave
35:18was directly related
35:19to a plot to blow a plane.
35:21I mean,
35:21these judges require
35:22absolute certainty.
35:26The seasons may be changing,
35:27but the trial
35:28at Camp Zeist continues.
35:30Today,
35:30the court will hear
35:31from a Libyan government official
35:32who is believed
35:33to have been responsible
35:34for issuing passports
35:35to Libyan intelligence officers,
35:37including Mr. Megrahi.
35:41Mr. El-Garouer,
35:43who is your employer?
35:43The Libyan National Passport Office.
35:47You will see on your screen now
35:50production number 1770.
35:54Did you, in fact,
35:55issue this passport,
35:57number 332351,
36:00for Mr. Megrahi
36:01under the name
36:02Ahmed Abdusamad?
36:05I did issue this passport,
36:07yes,
36:07on instruction
36:08of a letter from ESO.
36:10A letter we see now,
36:13Mr. El-Garouer.
36:18This is the letter,
36:19yes.
36:20Mr. Megrahi had
36:22three passports,
36:23valid at the same time
36:25under three different names,
36:26including this one,
36:28which we can see
36:28was valid
36:29from the 15th of June 1987
36:32to the 14th of June 1991.
36:35Is it unusual
36:37for one person
36:38to be assigned
36:39three passports?
36:43Senior Libyan secret service
36:45like Mr. Megrahi
36:46need a lot of passports.
36:54Your Lordships,
36:55we refer you again
36:56to Mr. Salinger's
36:57interview with
36:58Mr. Megrahi
36:59for ABC News.
37:01I only have
37:02one passport.
37:04One.
37:05One.
37:05Tony,
37:18whatever they throw at you,
37:20just tell the truth.
37:26Think about your father.
37:29Make him proud.
37:30Trouble?
37:55It's been a long time.
37:57Yeah, look, Oscar,
37:58I didn't expect to see you.
38:00I've read you've been
38:01moved after case.
38:02Right, yeah.
38:03No, I was.
38:05Don't know.
38:05Turns out I'm still
38:06a bit useful,
38:06which is nice.
38:08How are you?
38:10This can't be easy.
38:11Yeah, I'm okay.
38:13Thanks for asking.
38:14You can always get me that.
38:29Yeah, yeah.
38:30Go take a seat.
38:31I don't think I just want to let you know.
38:34Yeah.
38:36How are those girls' ears?
38:38I mean,
38:39they're not really ghettoes anymore.
38:40Oh, yeah.
38:42How did you get him here?
38:46Tony's a good guy.
38:48He's an honest man.
38:51I'll sit down.
38:51Okay, okay.
38:52Okay.
38:53Nothing but...
38:54Nothing but...
38:55Mr. Gauchy,
39:17you are fluent in Arabic?
39:19I don't understand very good Arabic,
39:21but I can...
39:22Mr. Gauchy,
39:22I'm interested that you don't understand
39:25very good Arabic.
39:26The man who came into your shop
39:28to buy clothes
39:29spoke in Arabic, no?
39:32Arabic and motis.
39:33Yet you understood his accent so well
39:35you could tell he was Libyan.
39:37A lot of Libyans in the area.
39:39Mr. Gauchy,
39:40would it be fair to say
39:42you have no definitive recollection
39:44of the man you sold the clothes to?
39:46His accent,
39:47nor his appearance?
39:49I do remember him,
39:50but after all these years
39:51I can't remember everything.
39:52Thank you for your honesty.
39:55Let us talk about the day
39:56the Scots police arrived in your shop.
40:01You mean my family shop?
40:04I worked hard for many years.
40:06I do an honest job.
40:08For many years.
40:08That is not in dispute, Mr. Gauchy.
40:10Yes.
40:11Yes, it is.
40:13And today I'm here to tell the truth.
40:14Well, let us look at production 470
40:19if that could be on the screen, please.
40:22And if we can turn to page three,
40:25the bottom of page three,
40:26I will read part of the police statement
40:28which was presumably read to you in 1991.
40:31And what it says in the second half of the page
40:33is Mr. Bell wrote down a statement from me.
40:36Is that true?
40:39Yes, yes.
40:39Mr. Bell wrote it in English.
40:41And given your limited grasp of languages,
40:44mistakes could be made.
40:46I signed a statement, as you can clearly see.
40:50And like I said before,
40:51I was shown photograph eight,
40:52and at that point...
40:53Your lordships,
40:55I believe image number eight
40:57should be put on the epidiascope and screens
40:59simply for clarity.
41:05I confirmed many times.
41:08Like I said...
41:09Very well. Let us move on.
41:10What I said
41:11was that from all the photographs I have been shown,
41:16number eight is the only one really close
41:18and similar to the man who bought the clothing.
41:20And it's that man sitting in the dock.
41:22I didn't go to this store.
41:36Umbrella,
41:37what would I do with this?
41:40The story of Lockerbie is complex.
41:53There are still gaps in the facts.
41:58Gaps that we imagine ourselves into,
42:01gaps that we hope time will fill.
42:04But after 12 years of investigation
42:08and many weeks of testimony,
42:11there is much that we do know.
42:13We know that on December the 21st, 1988,
42:18a bomb caused Pan Am 103 to disintegrate in the sky.
42:24We know that the town of Lockerbie overnight
42:28became a vast crime scene divided into sectors.
42:32And we know that the recovery of bodies began that first night.
42:38Forensic testing revealed the explosion
42:41came from within a Samsonite suitcase
42:43in Pallet 404-1.
42:48The defence has not challenged this,
42:51nor the evidence that the explosive device
42:54was a Toshiba radio cassette player
42:56fitted with a Meebo timer.
42:59Parts of both the radio and the Meebo timer
43:01were found embedded in clothing,
43:03including Yorkie trousers,
43:05that Mr. Gauchi remembers selling
43:07to a Libyan man,
43:09fitting the first defendant's description
43:10in December 1988,
43:13when Mr. McGrahi has admitted
43:15that he was in Malta.
43:18And though he denies he returned to Malta
43:21on December the 20th,
43:22immigration records show that he did,
43:26using one of his other passports,
43:29the one in the name Abdu Samad,
43:31that he claims to know nothing of.
43:34But of course he has lied about his whereabouts
43:36as a guilty man must
43:38when trying to keep his house of cards
43:40of lies from falling.
43:42Your Lordships,
43:44once more we will refer you
43:45to footage of Mr. Salinger's interview
43:47with Mr. McGrahi for ABC News.
43:50I was not in Malta
43:51over the 20th and 21th of December.
43:55Trust me.
43:57I was in trouble with my family.
44:00Later in the interview,
44:02Mr. McGrahi again claimed,
44:04I was not in Malta that day.
44:07Mr. Salinger asked if he was sure
44:10and Mr. McGrahi said,
44:12This is a surprise.
44:14But if I had a time,
44:17I could find a proof I was in Tripoli.
44:22And I'm certain about it.
44:23Because I only have one passport.
44:27One.
44:28This is how a bomb plot,
44:31like any plot,
44:32any story,
44:33takes shape.
44:34A chain of devastation
44:36that can be traced back
44:38to one deceit after another,
44:40a lie upon a lie upon a lie.
44:43But truths,
44:44they can be linked to.
44:46The night before the bombing,
44:51after Mr. McGrahi checked
44:52into the Holiday Inn in Malta,
44:54we contend that he
44:55and Mr. Fima met a third individual.
45:00This third individual was,
45:03we believe,
45:04Abu Aguila Massoud.
45:06We have heard the defence imply
45:08that Mr. Massoud does not exist.
45:11Perhaps time will tell.
45:12But Mr. McGrahi
45:14and Mr. Fima's whereabouts
45:15are known
45:16from his holiday in hotel room
45:19Mr. McGrahi called
45:21Mr. Fima.
45:23It was 7.11am
45:25on the morning of the 21st of December,
45:29the day
45:30Pan Am 103 would go down.
45:34And they had a plan
45:36to go to the airport
45:38with the suitcase
45:39holding the bomb.
45:42The case was checked
45:43onto Air Malta flight KM18
45:45with a rush tag.
45:47It flagged the case's
45:48ultimate destination
45:49as New York
45:50via Frankfurt
45:51and London.
45:53The case should have been checked
45:55multiple times.
45:57But the defendants knew
45:58what others in the airline industry
46:00also knew in 1988.
46:02Such safety protocols
46:04were often ignored.
46:06and when the case
46:08reached Frankfurt
46:08outdated X-ray machines
46:11were relied upon
46:12as the only line
46:13of defence.
46:15And when it arrived
46:16in London
46:16it
46:17was loaded
46:18onto Pan Am 103.
46:22The plot
46:23had reached a point
46:25of no return.
46:28There was less than
46:29an hour left
46:30on the Meebo timer
46:31attached
46:32to the bomb beat
46:33radio
46:34in the case.
46:36Time was ticking
46:37and the last chance
46:40to save lives
46:41was lost.
46:45And to some extent
46:46your lordships
46:46the rest is history.
46:50Within minutes
46:52hundreds of families
46:55had lost
46:56sons
46:57daughters
46:59husbands
47:01and wives
47:02people
47:04from all
47:04over the world
47:05coming home
47:08to loved ones
47:09for Christmas
47:10with no idea
47:13they would soon
47:13fall from the sky
47:15onto a small
47:16Scottish town
47:17as locals
47:18felt the heavens
47:19cave in.
47:23So many
47:24futures
47:26were shattered
47:27that cold
47:27December night.
47:28and the world
47:31changed forever
47:33in the way
47:35it looked
47:35at international
47:36terrorism
47:36and mass murder.
47:46Tonight
47:47the court
47:47that has heard
47:4884 days
47:49and 3 million
47:50words of evidence
47:51is ready
47:52for the final day
47:53of Britain's
47:54biggest mass murder
47:55trial.
47:57From here
47:58the three
47:58Scottish judges
47:59will deliver
47:59their verdict.
48:01The British
48:02relatives of the
48:03dead
48:03say it will
48:04be difficult.
48:08Here you go.
48:10Oh, thanks.
48:11Thanks.
48:11Thanks.
48:24Judges have reached a verdict.
48:49My lords, have you reached a verdict in respect of each accused?
48:54We have.
48:57Would you give me, please, your verdict in respect of the accused, Al-Amin Khalifa Fima?
49:14Not guilty.
49:16Would you give me, please, your verdict in respect of the accused, Abdul-Basset Ali Mahmed Al-Megrahi?
49:29I am guilty.
49:35Are both verdicts unanimous or by a majority?
49:52Both verdicts are unanimous.
49:55Hold on.
49:57This is justice.
49:58Why doesn't it feel better?
49:59Oh, because nothing's going to bring back your son.
50:14Tonight, behind high prison walls, a Libyan intelligence agent is beginning a 20-year sentence for murder.
50:27And the man accused with him is leaving for Libya.
50:41The three judges admit there are uncertainties in this case, but nothing they say that gives them any reasonable doubt that McGrahi was the bomber.
50:50Twenty years is less than a month per victim, and somehow that doesn't sit right with me.
50:59It is with a form of relief that we experience this today.
51:03It can't mend my heart, because I still don't have hurt.
51:06So although the world's attention may now move on with the feeling justice has been served here for the 400 people who lost children,
51:14the 76 people who lost husbands and wives, and the 140 who lost parents, there are still more questions than there are answers.
51:29Those colours can be viewed in universe if that's what were meant to be done.
51:33Jennifer rang in the conversation.
51:34It's all about the circumstances.
51:35I'm not telling you.
51:36I don't know.
51:37I should have to understand the news around the environment.
51:38You can hear it in a few months.
51:39Oh, my God.
51:40You've said anything.
51:41I take a job.
51:42You're my husband.
51:43You can't.
51:44I was.
51:45I've been.
51:47I was.
51:49I did.
51:50I saw you.
51:52I was.
51:53I was.
51:54I was.
51:55You were.
51:57I was.
51:58we knew that his packs were found in 1989 the last things he owned and touched
52:09why have we had to wait so many years to have them returned to us
52:13we suspected the defense would try to reignite suspicions around your son at the trial
52:19to provide an alternative theory however untrue we had to retain your son's belongings in case
52:27they were called into evidence i never thought there could be anything worse than death
52:31the 12 years of suspicion that's been worse i am so very sorry for all that your family's been put
52:45through truly please stay why don't you have some tea
52:55thank you it's for the generosity
53:05this must be the next generation
53:18yeah they keep us busy
53:20i bet
53:22maybe
53:24margaret
53:27oh
53:28hi margaret hi hello catherine we try to spend christmases together these days some years me and
53:40my hugo to new jersey and other years we're here in lockerby with our scottish family
53:45shall we yeah come on kids
53:55hey catherine joe it's so good to see you how are you
53:59dad good to see you joe
54:03jack great to see you hey i just wanted to say thank you all for everything you've done on the case
54:09no thank you not just for fighting for justice but for change the family should have been protected and prioritized from the start
54:18can't make that mistake again
54:25i remember my first sight of lockerby after the bombing
54:32i remember the destruction the wreckage but i've realized that isn't what this place is
54:39that isn't what this place is
54:41this town's character lies in the efforts of ordinary people to rebuild
54:46to repair
54:47to be there for each other
54:50to step up generously in the most extraordinary circumstances
54:55and to make whole
54:57some of what was destroyed
55:01families from all over the world were welcomed here
55:05kindness and communication arose from the worst atrocity
55:12grief has remained
55:15but lockerby
55:17has set an example
55:19we hope future generations will follow
55:35if you are a little bit about seeing what you did
55:43don't expect it to be
55:44you know
55:45we hope to be
55:47mccry
55:47we hope to be
55:49that it's the next time
55:50because of that
55:50the chance of keeping your life
55:51the possible to be
55:52with that
55:53for all we have
55:53before we go
55:54没
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