LOCKERBIE CONFESSION
I have proof Jibril is responsible for Lockerbie. He has a deal with Iran KHREESAT’S DAUGHTER SAHA
FOR 17 years Libyan Abdelbaset al-megrahi has been blamed for the Lockerbie bomb despite grave doubts over his involvement.
But the Mirror today reveals fresh claims by the daughter of a former terrorist which she says finally proves Iran was behind the outrage that killed 270 people 30 years ago today.
Jordanian Marwan Khreesat left his wife a dossier of evidence that allegedly shows his boss in a Palestinian terror group, Ahmed Jibril, was paid millions of pounds by Tehran to mastermind the horrific attack over the Scottish town.
Khreesat’s 43-yearold daughter Saha claims her father even gave the name of the bombmaker to her mother.
It will add to longheld suspicions Tehran ordered the atrocity in revenge for the US shootingdown of an Iranian passenger plane months killing 290 civilians.
Saha insisted Khreesat played no part in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 and blamed Jibril, who was leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-general Command. POINTS FINGER AT TEHERAN
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Speaking to us in the Jordanian capital Amman, she said: “I think he is responsible, and he has a deal with the Iran government.
“I do have proof that Ahmed Jibril is responsible for Lockerbie.
“It might be papers or recordings and it is not in our house now.”
Khreesat was identified as a possible Lockerbie suspect shortly after the 1988 attack. He had been arrested two months earlier in Frankfurt with another PFLP-GC member who had plastic explosives hidden in a Toshiba cassette player in his car. The device was very similar to the one used on Flight 103.
He later admitted his role in the 1972 failed bombing of an Israeli El Al passenger jet from Rome to Tel Aviv.
Asked if her father knew the name of the bombmaker, Saha replied: “For sure he knows but I don’t know. My dad left something written about this but it’s not in the house. If my dad made the bomb he would have taken lots of money but we don’t have anything because my dad didn’t have anything to do with it.
“Ahmed Jibril took the first million and then he took the rest of the money and got very rich.
“The Lockerbie accident has so many hidden things and my dad gave his secret to my mum.”
Saha spoke confidently during our hour-long meeting after we tracked her down to her home. Her mum was silent and nervous. Asked why her dad did not reveal this information while alive, she made reference to the Us-led 1986 bombing of Libyan capital Tripoli in revenge for terror explosions at a West Berlin nightclub.
She said: “Maybe he just wanted to protect Jordan. Maybe he’ll put Jordan in danger if he talked.
“What happened to Libya will happen to Jordan. Lockerbie is an important topic since it is related to America and no one is supposed to mess with America.” Saha claimed Jordan was not interested in the truth about Lockerbie. She added: “When we talk to the government, we tell them we have information and they don’t care. There’s a secret related to this topic hidden somewhere.”
Saha told how her dad and Jibril fell out. She said: “Jibril said Marwan Khreesat is a double agent for the Jordanian intelligence. He was not. My father was fedai [ fighter]. Ahmed Jibril was his leader. They worked together in Syria and Lebanon.” Saha insisted it was a coincidence her dad was with another PFLP-GC militant when held in Germany.
She said: “When they arrested him they arrested my dad too. Why did they let him go? Because there was no evidence against him.”
Saha’s claims will add to fears al-megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, is innocent. He was jailed for life after a trial in Holland. Al-megrahi was released on compassionate grounds eight years later, suffering from prostate cancer. He died in 2012 aged 60.
Scottish MSP Christine Graham said: “These various discoveries that you have made builds further on the case that it was Iran that was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing and that al-megrahi was the fall guy.”
A Mass marking Lockerbie’s 30th anniversary will take place today at Holy Trinity Church.