Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Iranian ex-spy to Al Jazeera: Khomeini ordered downing of Pan Am flight 103

Former Iranian intelligence officer says Tehran ordered downing of plane over Lockerbie in retaliation for US attack on Iranian airliner.


Did Ayatollah Khomeini (L) order the downing of the Pam Am flight 103? (Reuters, Wikimedia Commons)

Who was responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland? While the Libyan government was thought to have masterminded the terrorist attack, a bombshell documentary by Al Jazeera quotes a former Iranian intelligence officer as saying that it was Iran that ordered the atrocity.

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