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アメリカのリビアとの国交正常化はCIA工作が暴露されたからか。
パンナム１０３便爆破事件裁判で、CIAがリビアの犯罪を疑わせる証拠を仕掛けたと元警官が証言した。国交正常化は苦肉の策であろう。
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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060517-00000009-san-int
海外総合ニュース - 5月17日(水)4時8分
米、テロ情報提供評価 ２６年ぶり国交正常化 リビア、協力は不透明
【ワシントン＝有元隆志】米政府は十五日、リビアのテロ支援国指定を解除し、二十六年ぶりに国交を正常化することを発表。首都トリポリの大使館を再開するほか、米政府高官のリビア訪問も検討している。リビアは最高指導者カダフィ大佐が権力を保ち続け、人権問題などを抱えているものの、米政府はテロ活動を行っていないとの確証を得たことに加え、大量破壊兵器やテロ情報をめぐる協力の意義を強調した。ただ、リビアがどこまで米国に協力するかは不透明だ。
国務省のウェルチ次官補（中東担当）は十五日、指定解除について、「リビアに石油があるからではない。わが国の安全保障上の懸念に対応したためだ」と語った。
そのうえで、テロ行為を行ってきたリビアに対し、「注意深い監視や評価なしに、今回のような決定は下さない」と述べ、リビアがテロを中止しただけでなく、テロ組織との連携も絶ったと判断したと説明した。
クランプトン・テロ問題調整官も「情報面での協力は強まっている」と述べ、リビアからの情報提供の重要性を認めた。
米政府は、二〇〇三年末に核開発などを断念したリビアから核物質の提供を受けた。調査した結果、ウラン濃縮の原料となる六フッ化ウランが、北朝鮮からリビアに輸出されたことを示すほぼ確実な結論が出るなど、リビア情報は「核の闇市場の解明に役立った」（同調整官）としている。
米政府にはリビアを「成功例」として、大量破壊兵器開発を続けるイランや北朝鮮に圧力をかけるねらいがある。
ただ、今回の解除には異論もある。一九八八年におきた米パンナム機の爆破事件で、当時二十歳の娘を失ったスーザン・コーヘンさんはロイター通信に対し、「驚くべきこと。テロリストに見返りを与えることは危険」と反発した。
さらに、リビア人児童にエイズウイルスを感染させたとして、ブルガリア人やパレスチナ人の医師や看護婦がリビア国内で拘束されているが、自白を強制させられたとの批判もある。
ライス国務長官は声明で、関係正常化によって「他の重要問題も論議できるようになる」と述べ、人権問題などを協議したいとの意向を示した。
（産経新聞） - 5月17日4時8分更新
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ところが、この「テロ支援国指定を解除」は、苦肉の策で、実は、この「航空史上最大のテロ事件」とされていたロッカビー事件（パンナム１０３便爆破事件）の裁判で、「CIAがリビアの犯罪を疑わせる証拠を仕掛けた」と元警官が証言した、という、いささか旧聞に属する情報が、手許にもたらされたのである。
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005
Sun 28 Aug 2005
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
MARCELLO MEGA
A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.
The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.
The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.
Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development.
But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now."
Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him.
An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002.
The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents.
"Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified.
"He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal."
The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward.
"He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted. At first he requested anonymity, but has backed down and will be identified if and when the case returns to the appeal court."
The vital evidence that linked the bombing of Pan Am 103 to Megrahi was a tiny fragment of circuit board which investigators found in a wooded area many miles from Lockerbie months after the atrocity.
The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives, and manufactured by the Swiss firm Mebo, which supplied it only to Libya and the East German Stasi.
At one time, Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was such a regular visitor to Mebo that he had his own office in the firm's headquarters.
The fragment of circuit board therefore enabled Libya - and Megrahi - to be placed at the heart of the investigation. However, Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials, and it emerged that he had little in the way of scientific qualifications.
Then, in 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted.
The decision of a former Scottish police chief to back this claim could add enormous weight to what has previously been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. It has long been rumoured the fragment was planted to implicate Libya for political reasons.
The first suspects in the case were the Syrian-led Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a terror group backed by Iranian cash. But the first Gulf War altered diplomatic relations with Middle East nations, and Libya became the pariah state.
Following the trial, legal observers from around the world, including senior United Nations officials, expressed disquiet about the verdict and the conduct of the proceedings at Camp Zeist, Holland. Those doubts were first fuelled when internal documents emerged from the offices of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Dated 1994, more than two years after the Libyans were identified to the world as the bombers, they still described the PFLP-GC as the Lockerbie bombers.
A source close to Megrahi's defence said: "Britain and the US were telling the world it was Libya, but in their private communications they acknowledged that they knew it was the PFLP-GC.
"The case is starting to unravel largely because when they wrote the script, they never expected to have to act it out. Nobody expected agreement for a trial to be reached, but it was, and in preparing a manufactured case, mistakes were made."
Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was quite right that all relevant information now be put to the SCCRC.
Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the atrocity, said last night: "I am aware that there have been doubts about how some of the evidence in the case came to be presented in court.
"It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined."
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: "As this case is currently being examined by the SCCRC, it would be inappropriate to comment."
No one from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland was available to comment.
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