MEBO-DECLERATION

While the news-media, the Crown-/prosecution and several other sources have for all these years, since the discovery of the MST-13 timer-fragment apparently assumed, hinted and insinuated that Edwin Bollier had been given the role of one of four Crown-/prosecution-witnesses (a so-called STAR-WITNESS FOR THE CROWN), it has todate seemingly been the assumption of the wide public and many media-representatives, that Edwin Bollier had been selected to assist in a conviction drive in the case of the two Libyan suspects. This it not so! Neither MEBO nor Edwin Bollier have ever offered any party, to become a witness in the Lockerbie-case;- other than to testify about the MEBO-MST-13-timer and related
matters!

This discounts the media-published theory that Edwin Bollier has in fact become a "HOSTILE WITNESS' for the Crown-/prosecution. Neither MEBO nor Edwin Bollier are hostile to any side during this trial. It is the only interest of MEBO-/Edwin Bollier to help fight an honest and clearly visible path into the rather cynical, very incomplete, unprecise and partially "muddy" official forensic efforts and results, that now serves as basis for the so long awaited trial of the "Crime of the century".

The "International Herald Tribune' of Friday, June 2, 2000, reports that TWA-FLIGHT 800 INQUIRY GIVES MISSILE THEORY A LAST SHOT'. This again means that four years after the still very suspicious explosion-/crash of this TWA flight 800 off the coast of New York (by the way strangely not listed under "US-National Security', as is the Lockerbie-crash, that occurred in the UK !!!), top-forensic-and explosives-experts are still not certain if a Stinger-missile might have downed this flight! Very prominent Individuals like former Admiral Thomas Moorer and former press secretary of the White House: Pierre Salinger, have kept the missile-theory well alive! We all know that TWA-800 did not even make it close to being called "the possible crime of the century", but Lockerbie did !!! Should we therefore not invest more honest, more precise and unquestionably top-scientific forensic research into the Lockerbie-tragedy, than what we have heard and seen so far? Is the "crime of the century" actually worth so much in true guess-work am assumptions, only to (unreadable) the easiest route to in many ways simply confirm the years-long pre-conviction of the two Libyan suspects and Libya ??

It still very much looks as if the Crown, prosecution and forensic experts, as well as a large number of international government executives and diplomats, are still in deep shock over the fact that the two suspects have physically been transferred to Holland, to now force about the long-heralded "murder-trial of the century'. Why should the Crown-/prosecution now threaten MEBO-/Edwin Bollier with the possible unkind act of "contempt of court', only because MEBO-/Edwin Bollier are so much better prepared to produce well-researched key-elements and crucial new 'theories", that very unfortunately contradict the very focal Crown-/prosecution research-summary of the location of the explosive-device at the time of explosion. It is by no means MEBO´s fault to seemingly have reached a far more reasonable "explosion-analysis" than the incredibly large team of official forensic experts that were at work for years in the name of the Crown-/prosecution.

Even today, almost twelve years following the Lockerbie-crash, official experts and witnesses debate in court at Camp Zeist, how much of the explosive compound SEMTEX was actually involved (from 250grams to 500 grams), where exactly the alleged suitcase (containing the alleged Toshiba-bomb-radio) was located inside container AVE 4041PA , in what distance the centre of explosion was to the fuselage-skin....... and the witness statement of "religious accounting of all recovered-debris" has also experienced severe damage by other witness-statement that much of the identification-efforts were then being handled very unprofessionally, to then be followed by uncounted acts of exchange corrections and even removal not only from the scene of the crash, but even removal from Scotland.

Following the publication of the first major MEBO-report on the explosion-research-result, the "mathematically-/algebraically" calculated distance from the alleged contra of explosion to the fuselage-skin (straight line) had quickly been adjusted from originally 25" to now 12"! MEBO is deeply disturbed by this rather crucial admittance of a "major calculation error" that has dominated the official research? resu Its for now almost 10 years!

When placing the title "crime of the century" on the Lockerbie-matter; - when official sanctions had so severely been imposed on an entire nation, in the attempt to force Libya to deliver the two suspects for trial to the USA, Scotland or finally Holland (after a very painful giving in to the heavy international pressure !!!), - one could for sure also have expected the absolute, ultimate efforts to have been invested into all official Lockerbie-research, in order to definitely reach only crystal-clear facts and answers to all incriminating issues !

MEBO is at this time not prepared to name all the independent experts that supplied the original key?research?information, allowing MEBO to bluntly claim that there was no explosion from within container AVE 4041 PA. MEBO may continue to require the services of these experts when the equally crucial question of the MST-13 timer-fragment must be addressed in court. The results of the timer-session at Camp Zeist will produce similar; - or even more shattering facts and news than what just happened with the MEBO "explosion-analysis results"!

In order to substantiate the very fair "chance" that the MEBO explosion-analysis-results are correct. MEBO is able to resort to one of the best and world's leading institute, the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich/Germany, to very recently have scrutinized the published MEBO-report. One of the world´s leading explosions-experts from this institute, Prof. Dr .Hitmar Schubert been commissioned by  "Die Zeit" - one of Germanys best known newspapers, to analyse the MEBO-claims "an compare them with the details from the official AAIB-report. The quite conclusive result, reached by Prof. Schubert  has now been published by "Die Zeit"  Thursday June 8, 2000.

The explosion must have been outside container AVE 4041PA, close to the fuselage-skin near stringer 700! MEBO is proud to be able to contribute such fundamental and new evidence;- not as a witness for the prosecution, nor as a witness for the defence,- but simply representing the MEBO-company in the MST-13-timer-matter! We dearly feel that "the crime of the century" deserves to be scrutinized with research-methods and efforts that leave NO question, answers and doubts open for continued speculations and suspicions!

Containers in any aircraft freight-compartement are obviously very solidly fixed to the floor; - so as to not shift position during the flight! When considering the actually measured distance from the skin of the container to the subsequent centre of explosion, we must add the following segments, to reach the total distance of 25" (63,5cm), as listed in the official AAIB-report, figure; F-13:

- distance-fuselage-skin to the outside of the fiberglass-panel (seperator-panel) = 7,87" (20cm)
- distance from the outside of the fibreglass-panel to the outside of the AVE 4041 PA PA-container-wall = 11,81" (30cm)
- distance from the aluminium container inside-wall to the alleged centre of explosion (according to the AAIB-report) -5,01" (13,5 cm)

If we now add up all respective distances from the fuselage-skin to the alleged centre of explosion, we come up with 25' (63.5cm).

On Monday, May 24, 2000, we heard testimony from Christopher Prothoroe during his official appearance as witness in court. It was admitted that a fundamental algebraic-/mathematical error had been made in the calculation of said crucial distance! The correct distance was now being introduced to be only 12" (30cm) !

This would then clearly indicate that the explosion would actually have occurred OUTSIDE said container AVE 4041 PA, directly before the separator-panel on position 700! (max. 3.93" from the MEBO-analysis-claim of virtual direct contact of the explosive?device with the fuselage-skin). Apparently recognizing that the 12" corrected AAIB-version would in fact support the MEBO-claim, further "adjustment' has been made in the witness-testimony before the court, now projecting a distance of about 17"! We always should remember that different forensic individuals, teams and laboratories had almost 10 years to reconstruct, reenact and meticulously calculate all and every angle of this immensely crucial and basic incident. Any and all results coming out of such such 10-year testing should be absolutely air?tight; leaving not even a hair-with of research-results open for further guess?work or speculation!

Another witness: Prof. Christopher Peel then told the Scottish court in the Netherlands that he had calculated the bomb to have been placed 24" (60 cm) distance from the fuselage-skin, inside said baggage-container;- and that the alleged bomb weighed about one pound (500gr.). Prof. Peel, a chief-scientist with the Defence Research and Evaluation Agency (DERA), explained that a reconstruction of the part of the plans, where the bomb exploded, was used to try to locate the source of the blast.
He said only a unique combination of charge-size and distance from the fuselage could have caused the damage he observed. He added his conclusion were confirmed by a computer-simulation. MEBO claims that this computer-simulation was run with the input of erroneous data.

Another witness; Dr. Ian Cullis, also from DERA, told the court, the bomb could not have been in a case on the floor of the cargo container. Dr. Cullis gave evidence on experiments Into the affect of explosives on baggage and baggage-containers within the aircraft. Dr. Cullis' clear statement: " the device was not in a suitcases that was immediately on the floor of this container. How is it then possible to publish AAIB-reports, that clearly demonstrate full authoritative value of such calculations, when forensic experts even today debate different hypothetic variations?

The AAIB-report does not address another significant issue: the existence of a protective fibreglass- panel (separator-panels) that protects the fuselage-skin in a distance of about ( 7.1/7.9", 18-20cm).  It is MEBO's contention that these panels would clearly prevent the discovered fragment's to show the structures as pictured in the official AAIB-report. These fragment-pictures could not have been produced by explosive discharge from within said container AVE 4041 PA!

With MEBO/ Edwin Bollier being scheduled to appear before the court at Camp Zeist to explain every and all details surrounding the alleged MST-13 timer-fragment, as well as the entire set of facts in connection with the MST-13-timer MEBO is extremely eager to see the smallest leave of Lockerbie-details turned over, to reveal the full truth of authorship and execution of this heinous crime! In order to throw the switch to eventually floodlight the full truth behind Lockerbie, MEBO suggests (or humbly requests) a complete re-run of the explosion-test, possibly in a series of three independent tests, with different starting-scenarios!  After already having developed into the costliest crime-investigation that was ever conducted, there should be no hesitation to also add the immense now cost of explosion-test-rerunsl We were promised that the "crime of the century" would be solved;- so let us prove that the promise was a serious commitment!

These now test-series must be completely open to any and all members of the Crown, the prosecution, the defence-teams, the news-media, scientists from around the world, witnesses and their legal representatives-/partners, members of the now existing forensic teams, etc.---  But the tests should be conducted by a new team of absolutely neutral top-renowned scientists-/experts who should not have any affiliation with i.e. the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the DI, the MI6 any other agency operating with secret agents, etc., nor with any of the prior and presently functioning forensic experts in the Lockerbie-case, etc. etc.

MEBO already stated that absolutely no leaf should be unturned to finally uncover the full and clean-cut truth about the planning and execution of all the intricate steps that finally downed PanAm-103! MEBO believes that the mourning relatives and friends of the Lockerbie-victims, all individuals that have been pointed out to be somewhere involved with this crime, government-officials, judges, lawyers, and so many more have vested interests and rights to know, that no leaf will be left unturned in search of the blunt and clean-cut truth! We so much believe in this statement that we are almost tempted to repeat this "request' thousands of times!

MEBO suggests the following:

a) the authorities issue an appeal for top-scientists in the necessary fields of desired expertise to offer their services for this new and absolutely "conclusive" series of explosion-tests,

b) the authorities clearly state that none of the desired scientists-/experts can be from any secret-service organization, nor connected to any level of government from the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, Libya, etc.

c) the authorities organize from two to six baggage?containers identical to the container AVE 4041 PA and its neighbouring fibreglass-container.

d) the authorities organize from one to three Toshiba-Bombeat radios, identical to the one listed in the AAIB-report and identical to the one alleged to have been in the Samsonite suitcase.

e) the authorities, organize from one to three MEBO-MST-13 timers.

f) the authorities organize from one to three Samsonite suitcases, identical to the one alleged to have been placed onto flight PanAm-103 by one of the suspects.

g) the authorities organize the quantity of SEMTEX that allegedly had been placed inside the TOSHIBA-radio;- possibly also three for new tests.

h) the authorities organize from one (up to three sets) set of Malta-purchased identical clothing, umbrella, etc.

i) the authorities organise from one to three instruction-booklets for said TOSHIBA-Bombeat radios.

j) the authorities organize an equal number of additional suitcases that allegedly had been transported in the container AVE 4041 PA and the neighbouring container.

k) the authorities organize suspected actual "filling- materials" for each of the suitcases, in order to imitate regular air-travellers' luggage.

1) from one up to three cargo-hold area simultation or duplication must be available for such testing, exactly duplicating the PanAm-103 cargohold

m) the now (unreadable) of tests must be filmed with several highest-speed cameras in order to receive answers to many other open questions, such as: where did all the major radio-and timer-fragments disappear to. Only very few micro-fragments have ever been discovered, exactly the ones, necessary to identify the radio and timer in order to indict Libya and the suspected two Libyans.

n) One simulation should be worked out with the alleged bomb-device exploding from the inside of the simulated container AVE 4041 PA, another test would then be run with the explosive device being placed onto or near the fuselage-skin, outside the contained A third test could then answer any remaining question, after the two initial re-tests would have been diligently analysed!

MEBO is absolutely confident that such now, openly-organised, incredibly honest test-series, conducted by independent top-rated scientists of absolute integrety, will clearly show the MEBO-claim to be true: there was no explosion inside container AVE 4041 PA !!!

It is quite obvious that the expected confirmation of the MEBO-explosion-report will automatically raise a now series of questions holding gigantic explosive character. The main-question then will surely be: if the explosion was not from inside container AVE 4041 PA , then where did the alleged Samsonite suitcase with all listed contents come from? Why was a tiny fragment from a MEBO MST-13 timer recovered, when in fact no such timer was even required for the explosion outside the container'? Why were there no larger fragments from the radio and timer recovered from the Lockerbie field of debris?

Another fundamental question will then be necessary to be answered: who had access to the PanAm-103 cargo-hold prior to departure from Heathrow ? Who was able to place an explosive charge onto or near the fuselage-skin? What kind of timer was then used to detonate the explosion charge on or near the fuselage-skin ?

MEBO is by no means attempting to divert from the MST-13 timer-issue. I myself, Edwin Bollier, representing MEBO AG , will be solidly prepared and eager to testify in court on the alleged MST-13 timer-fragment- and all relevant-/significant revelations deriving from the many mysteries, surrounding the alleged timer-fragment. The alleged discovery of this fragment actually triggered the US-Justice department to issue the indictment against the two Libyan suspects and subsequently also opened the way for the harsh sanctions against Libya! MEBO-/Edwin Bollier have already duly completed, signed and forwarded the required forms to confirm the undivided agreement for an indepth appearance in the court at Camp Zeist.

MEBO fully realizes that the Crown-/prosecution can only operate with and decide upon forensic results, that are submitted to the court. The court must therefore be able to absolutely trust the evidence placed onto the tables. If not all scientific avenues have been exhausted, then the court will not be able to pass balanced judgement. This situation should not be allowed to exist when sitting as judges over the "crime of the century"! Therefore the court should be rather thankful for MEBO research- results-details, that seem to be more correct than what official forensic research-teams have produced in this matter.

MEBO AG
Edwin Bollier VR