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The Lockerbie Incident: A Detective's Tale

by John Crawford

348 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0619; ISBN 1-55369-806-1; US$28.00, C$31.95, EUR23.00, £16.00

"Lockerbie did not happen in isolation - what events triggered the biggest mass murder in Scotland ever? Get behind the rhetoric, dig around the facts and make up your own mind. Guaranteed no theories, no conspiracies, no holds barred."

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About the Book This book relates to the explosion of the Boeing 747 that was Pan Am flight # 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21st, 1988. Author John Crawford was a detective on the scene and is writing this account based on what actually occured. This is an insider's view of 'the Lockerbie incident' - who did what and when. The 'why' is left to you, the reader...

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About the Author John Crawford was born in Glasgow at the end of WW II, worked as a miner, and then served in the Royal Navy. A police officer for over 29 years, most of those as a detective, John Crawford is married with one grown daughter. He is Scottish to the core.

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Sample Excerpts

From Chapter One - The Maid of the Seas

   Whatever the events that had passed and whether they were or were not connected, the fact remained: at 1903 Greenwich Mean Time on Wednesday 21st December 1988, the Boeing 747 aircraft of Pan American Airlines - coded flight 103 - disappeared from the radar screen watched by Alan Topp. It disintegrated into half a dozen echoes as it spiralled to the ground, spilling its occupants, dancing a reel of death in the Scottish sky.
   The break-up took place over the little market town of Lockerbie, which nestled in the gentle rolling hills of the Scottish borders. No one outside the area had heard much of the small rural community that sat beside the main road south from Glasgow to England. Now its name will never be forgotten.

From Chapter Two - The Nightmare Begins

The first task was to recover all the bodies of the deceased in each area. In our part of E sector we combed the hills and fields around Halldykes farm. A young child's body had been found nearby the previous night and had been taken to the town by the farmer. The only other piece of human flesh we discovered during our first hours in the field was a severed foot.
   There was plenty of wreckage scattered in a path some 100 yards wide and stretching from the hills towards the town. All the major parts of wreckage found were checked thoroughly; in our sector a huge chunk of the tail was found lying in a hollow in a grass field. I was sent down to check out the strewn debris of personal belongings with a couple of other men. We had a look inside the wreck of the tail section but no bodies were found. The wreckage lay where it had landed until we had recovered the bodies.

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   I am not ordinarily a religious person, like most cops I have seen too much of mans inhumanity to man to believe in it too much. On this night, and I don't know about the rest of the guys, but I said a wee silent prayer for each of the victims I put into the body bags.
   After that I just went round in a blur moving from body to body and noting as much detail as possible for future identification. The senses became numbed as we continued our work. We went through the same routine with each victim in turn. Although the daylight was long gone we still had many bodies to photograph and transport to town.

From Chapter Five - Events in the Lead up to Lockerbie

   The terrorists were led by Haj Hafez Dalkamoni, a one legged Israeli Arab who had been a prisoner of the Israelis for many years following an abortive cross border bomb attack. He'd lost a leg after a premature explosion. He was a close confidant of Ahmed Jibril and a member of the ruling commission of the General Command. He had arrived in Germany, ostensibly to receive treatment for his leg. It could be said that it was his mind that was being treated as he plotted revenge. His companions on arrival were Marwan Abdel Khreesat, a 46 years old Jordanian, and his wife. Khreesat was well known as a bomb maker with several international warrants in force for his immediate arrest.

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Catalogue Information

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