From Dr Jim Swire,father of Flora, murdered at Lockerbie
Letters editor, the GUARDIAN
Sir,
Writing in the New York Times in
November 1991, A M Rosenthal said "With a short sentence President
Bush (Senior) deeply damaged the credibility and significance of the inquiry
into the blowing up of Pan Am 103. The Syrians he said "took a bum rap on
this""
Not only did the then President
destroy the credibility of the search for those behind what remains the
greatest mass terrorist slaughter ever to occur within the UK, he signalled that US 'justice' had become a tool of US foreign
policy.
Current CIA and Mossad conctacts tell me
that the reason that Bush (senior) deliberately diverted attention from Syria's
involvement in Lockerbie was that he realised
that even the US could not afford to confront Syria (nor the instigator,
Syria's close ally, Iran), since their huge armies and their
affiliated terrorist groups would, if attacked, spread conflagration right
across the Middle East.
Perhaps the Bush family's vocabulary
in moving from a 'bum rap' to his son's aside yesterday to Blair
concerning (sic) 'Syrian shit' shows improved
recognition of reality
The cynical dishonesty of
Bush senior's volte face
has surely now come back to haunt his son and all of of
the world, magnified through the lens of time.