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0:00:09 > 0:00:11NEWS REPORTS: 'Disaster at Christmas.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15'Pan Am Flight 103 had been in the air for an hour.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18'For reasons we do not yet understand, the plane,
0:00:18 > 0:00:20'with 50,000 gallons of fuel on board,
0:00:20 > 0:00:23'plunged into the small Scottish town...'
0:00:23 > 0:00:24'..Lockerbie with liquid fire.'
0:00:24 > 0:00:27'The fuselage reportedly split in two...'
0:00:27 > 0:00:29'There is very little hope, I would have thought,
0:00:29 > 0:00:30'for anybody who was in a plane.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33'When it did come to earth, it hit very hard.'
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Scene four, take one.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Action.
0:00:47 > 0:00:52I mean, for some time the impression has been growing upon me
0:00:52 > 0:00:54that everyone is dead.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57The aspiring novelist had wanted to surprise his family with
0:00:57 > 0:00:59an early arrival home.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04Instead he wound up on the doomed Flight 103 and never made it.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Somewhere in Scotland, Lockerbie...
0:01:08 > 0:01:12you're looking for your notebook, a pen.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15It's there in the debris.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17I remember you, you know, giving the memorial,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21and we thought it was great you were reading letters from David.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24You know, I get the sense that you kind of look up to him,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and he was older but he thought so highly of you.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32NEWS REPORTS: 'Only one man was ever convicted for the crime, a Libyan,
0:01:32 > 0:01:36'who was to spend the rest of his life in prison.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38'WAS to spend the rest of his life.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42'Today the government of Scotland released Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.'
0:01:42 > 0:01:45'The Libyan intelligence agent is dying of prostate cancer.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47'Scottish officials are granting him
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'what they call a compassionate release.'
0:01:50 > 0:01:52'Relatives of the victims are outraged...'
0:01:52 > 0:01:57And then I saw the motorcade covered from every angle.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00'..just eight years of a life sentence...'
0:02:00 > 0:02:04And the only person ever convicted of the bombing of Flight 103,
0:02:04 > 0:02:08the murder of your daughter, my brother...
0:02:08 > 0:02:11NEWS REPORT: 'Tonight, the Lockerbie bomber flew home...'
0:02:11 > 0:02:15..and watching him go free live on television!
0:02:15 > 0:02:18'..a dying man or mass-murderer set free...'
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I'm asking myself, is the murderer getting away?
0:02:22 > 0:02:28And how far would I go to find out whether he is who he seems to be?
0:02:41 > 0:02:45When David died, I was 19 years old.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I was home from college for Christmas break
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and my sister was on her way home as well.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53My father took the call from the airline and I sat with him
0:02:53 > 0:02:56as we got the news that David was gone.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59'The relatives of some of those who died
0:02:59 > 0:03:01'have arrived in Britain from America.'
0:03:01 > 0:03:06Many families flew immediately to Lockerbie, but mine stayed home.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11The bombing became a topic we could never manage to discuss.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14'..tonight that Flight 103 fell out of the sky,
0:03:14 > 0:03:18'leaving a 100-mile trail of twisted wreckage and 270 victims.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21'Today, investigators said the evidence was conclusive -
0:03:21 > 0:03:23'it was a bomb.'
0:03:23 > 0:03:26'The centre of the search is the crater which was gouged out
0:03:26 > 0:03:28'of the ground by the Pan American jet.'
0:03:28 > 0:03:32'President Reagan said the US would make every effort to find out
0:03:32 > 0:03:34'who bombed the Pan Am jet.'
0:03:34 > 0:03:37REAGAN: I have been following quite closely
0:03:37 > 0:03:39the details of the Pan Am 103 tragedy,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42and now that we know definitely that it was a bomb.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47We're going to make every effort we can to find out who was guilty.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50I would hope to God that our government would definitely
0:03:50 > 0:03:52take a long hard look at this,
0:03:52 > 0:03:53because we don't...
0:03:53 > 0:03:56The group of relatives quickly became public campaigners
0:03:56 > 0:03:57for the truth about Lockerbie.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00NEWS REPORT: 'Jim Swire said, "We're not going to go away
0:04:00 > 0:04:02'"until we get what we want."
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Among the most prominent and controversial was a British doctor
0:04:05 > 0:04:09named Jim Swire, who'd lost his 23-year-old daughter.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I remember the hair on the back of my neck standing up the first time
0:04:13 > 0:04:16someone in the media actually use the word "murder".
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I remember the impact of that word.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22The concept that my lovely daughter should have been murdered.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40NEWS REPORT: 'The finger of suspicion is pointing at radical Palestinian groups,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42'men who see violence as the only way...'
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Early theories pin the bombing on a terror group based in Syria
0:04:45 > 0:04:47and backed by Iran.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50'Top of the list is Ahmed Jibril, Syrian-backed head of the radical...'
0:04:50 > 0:04:54But what role if any Iran played in the plot remains unclear.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57And I grew quietly obsessed with the mystery.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00'Yet another week of investigation into the bombing of Pan Am
0:05:00 > 0:05:02'Flight 103 is nearly at an end and it is laborious.'
0:05:02 > 0:05:06'Questions - when and how was the bomb placed on the plane
0:05:06 > 0:05:08'and who did it?'
0:05:09 > 0:05:12OK, are we all set?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Good morning. HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:05:15 > 0:05:18For three years, the United States and Scotland have been conducting
0:05:18 > 0:05:22one of the most exhaustive and complex investigations in history.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Finally, there is a press conference.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Now they're saying, "We've gotten the results
0:05:28 > 0:05:32"and we're going to tell you who we believe did it and why."
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Yes, we saw the statement being put out in America.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Today we are announcing an indictment in the case.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40'It was an exciting moment
0:05:40 > 0:05:44'because there's the assumption that we're going to find out the truth.'
0:05:44 > 0:05:47We charge that two Libyan officials,
0:05:47 > 0:05:51acting as operatives of the Libyan intelligence service,
0:05:51 > 0:05:55along with other co-conspirators, planted
0:05:55 > 0:05:59and detonated the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03NEWS REPORT: 'Murder warrants are out tonight for two Libyan spies.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07'They are now formally charged with bombing Pan Am Flight 103
0:06:07 > 0:06:09'out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland.'
0:06:09 > 0:06:14There are these two men. Libyan operatives of some kind.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16And you hear their names for the first time.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Mm-hm.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Lhamen Fhimah.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24'Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is accused of being the mastermind of the Pan Am 103 bombing.'
0:06:24 > 0:06:30I remember the story coming on and trying to feel something about this.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32My God, it was Libya!
0:06:32 > 0:06:37And I remember trying to work up a sense of the proper hatred
0:06:37 > 0:06:39for these two men. Yes.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43The plot reportedly came down to a bomb built into a radio
0:06:43 > 0:06:46cassette player packed with Semtex explosive.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49It was the Libyans who were accused of buying
0:06:49 > 0:06:52the clothes in the bomb bag and getting it all onto Flight 103.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55'Two Libyans are on trial at a court set up in the Netherlands.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58'They've always insisted they are innocent.'
0:06:58 > 0:07:01It would take almost ten years before the suspects were turned over
0:07:01 > 0:07:05and families like mine were finally able to hear the evidence.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10And when it was all over, the verdict was a disappointingly mixed bag.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13'A split decision. For Lhamen Fhimah, acquittal.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17'But Abdelbaset al-Megrahi found guilty as charged.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18'The court ruled...'
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Would I like to have tried the case in the United States? Sure.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26But I don't know what more we could have done.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Brian Murtagh was one of the top US prosecutors on the case.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35I believe that the evidence was there to convict Megrahi correctly
0:07:35 > 0:07:39and to sustain his conviction.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I wish Fhimah had been convicted
0:07:41 > 0:07:44because I think the same should be said of him.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47But, you know, the judges didn't see it that way.
0:07:47 > 0:07:53'After waiting 12 years...it was some level of justice.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Obviously...you can never bring your kid back.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01NEWS REPORT: 'Over and over today, 'the family members wanted to know,
0:08:01 > 0:08:04'will the US now pursue Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?
0:08:04 > 0:08:07CHEERING
0:08:07 > 0:08:10The theory was that Lockerbie had been revenge for the US
0:08:10 > 0:08:12bombing of Libya back in 1986.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15'One of Gaddafi's houses was hit...'
0:08:15 > 0:08:18But Gaddafi always denied a role in Pan Am 103.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22His government claimed to have been pressured into paying money to
0:08:22 > 0:08:26families like mine and issuing a carefully worded statement.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30But they never took real responsibility for the bombing,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33and the story, to me, never felt truly felt finished.
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Some 20 years after the bombing, I was no longer David's little brother.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43I was married with two kids
0:08:43 > 0:08:46and working on documentaries for Frontline, in Boston.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48EXCITED CHATTER
0:08:48 > 0:08:50When the kids were very young,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I wrote a book about David's brief life,
0:08:53 > 0:08:58but I'd largely put my questions about his death out of my mind.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Then, in the summer of 2009,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04something unexpected happened that brought it all back.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08'There is a possibility tonight that the only person convicted
0:09:08 > 0:09:10'in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
0:09:10 > 0:09:15'Scotland, might soon go free after just ten years in prison.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18'Some relatives of the 270 victims are outraged.'
0:09:18 > 0:09:22The one man convicted for the bombing was diagnosed with cancer
0:09:22 > 0:09:25and was said to have just three months to live.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26'..dying of prostate cancer.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29'Scottish officials are considering granting him
0:09:29 > 0:09:31'what they call a compassionate release.'
0:09:31 > 0:09:36'It was a decision met with outrage at the highest levels.'
0:09:36 > 0:09:39'We have been in contact with the Scottish government
0:09:39 > 0:09:42'indicating that we objected to this.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44'And we thought it was a mistake.'
0:09:44 > 0:09:48'President Obama said the US deeply regrets the decision
0:09:48 > 0:09:51'and warned Libya not to give him a hero's welcome.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54'The Libyans weren't listening.'
0:09:54 > 0:09:57'Megrahi emerged wearing a suit, the frail former inmate
0:09:57 > 0:10:00'unrecognisable as he acknowledged the jubilant crowd.'
0:10:00 > 0:10:01WHISTLING AND CHEERING
0:10:01 > 0:10:04I remember being shocked by Megrahi's release.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07His conviction hadn't been fully satisfying,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09but at least it was an answer.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Now, all that was coming undone.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16My brother and the others had been killed
0:10:16 > 0:10:19and certainty about who did it was being wiped away.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21'Some believe Megrahi should go free.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24'They don't believe he was guilty.'
0:10:24 > 0:10:28'Megrahi is not expected to live long enough for his next appeal to be heard.'
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Megrahi's release also gave momentum to those who believed
0:10:31 > 0:10:33he wasn't guilty at all.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39And theories pinning Lockerbie on Iran were once again revived.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41I wished I could let it go,
0:10:41 > 0:10:46but instead I decided to set out on my own search for answers.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47DOORBELL RINGS
0:10:47 > 0:10:50I began by tracking down the FBI agent who'd worked longer than
0:10:50 > 0:10:52anyone on the Lockerbie case.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Richard Marquise.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Richard Marquise. How are you? Good to see you, Ken. Good to see you.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Almost 25 years later, no-one's ever admitted playing any role in it.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04And in fact, Megrahi, the one man convicted,
0:11:04 > 0:11:09he's let go after serving only eight years under a cloud of suspicion.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Nobody is paying for this.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15No-one is paying judicially, for blowing up Pan Am 103.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17That's a great frustration.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19CHEERING
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Gaddafi was told,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23"If your agents are found guilty,
0:11:23 > 0:11:27"you have to admit responsibility for the attack,"
0:11:27 > 0:11:32and all he would admit to was, "responsibility for the actions of my agents."
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I think it's terrible that we allowed him
0:11:35 > 0:11:38to get away with that statement.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42When I spoke to the Lockerbie families, I said,
0:11:42 > 0:11:44"I wished we could have gotten more for you."
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Megrahi was the only person convicted
0:11:50 > 0:11:53because he's the only person that the evidence led to.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59But if he did this, he didn't do it by himself.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Megrahi is the tip of the iceberg.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04If I was writing the novel version,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07we would have identified not only the people who put that
0:12:07 > 0:12:08bomb on the plane,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10but those who ordered it up
0:12:10 > 0:12:12the chain of command and put them all in jail.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14That would have been the fantasy.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Over the years, I've gotten to know a lot of the investigators
0:12:19 > 0:12:22and prosecutors who worked on the case.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Stuart Henderson. Ken, please come in.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27'I visited their homes here and abroad
0:12:27 > 0:12:28'and heard their stories.'
0:12:28 > 0:12:30We didn't have any evidence of that.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33'They are all retired now and almost to a man,
0:12:33 > 0:12:37'they feel unsatisfied with the way the case ended.'
0:12:37 > 0:12:42How frustrated do you think we are to be detectives who have
0:12:42 > 0:12:49been all over the world trying to get an answer to this
0:12:50 > 0:12:54At no stage did I ever say I just wanted Megrahi.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56I said I wanted all of them.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Because there was no doubt in my mind he isn't the only one.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05He was the baggage man and he got caught. And rightly so.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09But I would like to have seen the rest of them.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13No, the case isn't finished, because all those responsible for
0:13:13 > 0:13:20the crime have not been identified and prosecuted, much less convicted.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23'Late this afternoon, the nose of the Pan Am jet was finally lifted
0:13:23 > 0:13:26'from the hillside three miles from Lockerbie.'
0:13:26 > 0:13:30And the only way we're ever going to find out what happened fully is
0:13:30 > 0:13:34somebody walks in that was involved and lays it all out for us.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Or there's a regime change in Libya.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42In the summer of 2011, regime change in Libya suddenly seemed possible.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44'Libya is burning!
0:13:44 > 0:13:48'Rage against the tyranny of Gaddafi is sweeping the country.'
0:13:48 > 0:13:51As the rebels gained ground,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54I began to wonder about making the trip to Libya myself.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58So, you had a list of names. Oh, yeah.
0:13:58 > 0:14:03I mean, how many names would have been on the list? Probably ten.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Stuart Henderson and I, we both left lists with our successors to say,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09"If you get to Libya this is what you ought to do.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12"This is who you ought to be after, you should talk to."
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Every one of these,
0:14:15 > 0:14:17at some stage, played a part in it.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21And the list read quite clearly.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23There was Abdullah Senussi,
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Ezzedine al Hinshiri,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30who did the ordering of their explosive device timers,
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Mohammed Rashid,
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Badri Hassan.
0:14:39 > 0:14:45We've got Abdullah Zadma,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Nassr Ashur, an expert in making sure that bombs go off.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Mohammed Ibrahim Bishari...
0:14:53 > 0:14:57..and a surprise expert in charge,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00explosives, in particular.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03A surprise mechanic, you could say, that started the ball rolling.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04He holds the key to it all.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09These are the people that must be found
0:15:09 > 0:15:12and these are the people who are responsible.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16But I never ever got access to them long enough
0:15:16 > 0:15:17to interview any of them.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23We got part of the conspiracy, but only a small part.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29You only get an answer to your final story with the rest of them.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34I think, until none of them can be found at all, then you can't stop.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50The fighting in Libya had closed down the main airport,
0:15:50 > 0:15:52so I had to find my own way in.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I flew first into neighbouring Tunisia then hired a driver to
0:15:58 > 0:16:01take me through the night towards Libya's western border.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Your first name is? Ken. No, surname.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28You want me to write it in?
0:16:31 > 0:16:32Put this away?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40It was late in the summer of 2011,
0:16:40 > 0:16:43as the Libyan revolution reached its climax,
0:16:43 > 0:16:47when I finally arrived in the capital, Tripoli.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50NEWS REPORT: 'We're starting with the situation in Libya.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53'It has taken a new turn, they still have no idea where
0:16:53 > 0:16:56'Muammar Gaddafi is, he's on the run tonight...'
0:16:56 > 0:17:01'..After a lightning advance this weekend that caught Gaddafi's forces by surprise.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04'It's now clear it is not over yet.'
0:17:06 > 0:17:10'There is still fierce fighting in many neighbourhoods as
0:17:10 > 0:17:13'forces loyal to Gaddafi make one final stand.'
0:17:13 > 0:17:15After so many years of imagining this place,
0:17:15 > 0:17:19it was hard to believe I was actually here
0:17:19 > 0:17:20at Gaddafi's old home.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Now his compound had become a makeshift fairground
0:17:31 > 0:17:34complete with lots of celebratory gunfire, souvenirs
0:17:34 > 0:17:36and a general carnival atmosphere.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53By the time I arrived, the NATO bombing campaign had taken out
0:17:53 > 0:17:57many of Gaddafi's old command and control centres.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Rumours were flying that important intelligence material might have
0:18:00 > 0:18:04been left behind here in Gaddafi's vast network of fortified bunkers.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10What is this map? Libya.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Suliman Ali Zway joined up with the revolution from its start
0:18:13 > 0:18:15in Benghazi where he was born.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21'When I first met him, he was leading me and some other
0:18:21 > 0:18:25'journalists on a tour of an old underground intelligence facility.'
0:18:27 > 0:18:28That is all sealed.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30'When Tripoli fell,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32'there were so many places that were left unguarded.'
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Do you find Gaddafi?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Come out, wherever you are.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39We are just going through all of those places to show
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Western journalist how an authoritarian regime was operating,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46and what kind of files they kept.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Jesus, look at this room.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51'Suliman seemed to share a deep interest in the secrets
0:18:51 > 0:18:53'of the old regime.'
0:18:53 > 0:18:55What do we think these tapes are?
0:19:08 > 0:19:11For Suliman, the search for answers was personal as well.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16One of the reasons I went to Tripoli is to find out what happened
0:19:16 > 0:19:17to my uncle.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20He was taken in '89,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24he was killed in the Abu Salim massacre, 1,200 were killed.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30We didn't find out until 2003 about the Lockerbie thing.
0:19:30 > 0:19:37It's so long ago, everybody who might have had remotely any idea
0:19:37 > 0:19:40what happened in Lockerbie would either be dead or
0:19:40 > 0:19:44out of the country or on the run with Gaddafi somewhere.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49So I had very little hopes to finding something substantial.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Suliman was understandably sceptical, but he was willing to help.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59We rented an apartment on the outskirts of Tripoli
0:19:59 > 0:20:02and the next day we began to search for the men on my list.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06These are some houses, look at these.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09A few of the men I was looking for lived in this exclusive
0:20:09 > 0:20:10section of Tripoli.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12What do people think of this neighbourhood?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30It's good to be a friend of Muammar's.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32MEN SHOUT OUT
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Our first stop was the home of the most well-known man on my list,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Abdullah Senussi. How many people lived here?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43I don't know, he had a bunch of kids, you know.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Abdullah Senussi was the head of Libyan intelligence
0:20:46 > 0:20:50at the time of Lockerbie and was actually convicted
0:20:50 > 0:20:54for the downing of another passenger plane that was bombed not long after Flight 103.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57By the time of the Revolution,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Senussi had become the second most powerful man in the country,
0:21:01 > 0:21:02which is likely why NATO
0:21:02 > 0:21:05put a missile through the centre of his house.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08An attack that Senussi somehow survived.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Said Rashid is this or that, it looks like this is all one thing.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14This style of gate.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Just around the block,
0:21:17 > 0:21:21I went looking for another of the men on my list - Said Rashid.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25The US government had said that Said Rashid was one
0:21:25 > 0:21:30of the masterminds of Lockerbie and many other attacks against the West.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34He was known to Libyans as a ruthless Gaddafi enforcer.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38All this damage is from looting or from NATO?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Rashid's family had abandoned this house just a few weeks
0:21:46 > 0:21:48before I arrived.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52The place was ransacked for money and valuables.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53But I'd come looking
0:21:53 > 0:21:57for evidence of Rashid's involvement in Lockerbie.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58So this was Said Rashid's office?
0:21:59 > 0:22:03In Rashid's desk, I found an Arabic translation of the indictment
0:22:03 > 0:22:06of the Libyans for Pan Am 103,
0:22:06 > 0:22:10complete with Rashid's handwritten notes. But there was no smoking gun.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Who is that in the white? Is that Said Rashid?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Yes.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24We managed to find someone still working at Libyan state television
0:22:24 > 0:22:28and he cued up the video of Megrahi's release from a Scottish prison.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I was told that several key suspects in the Lockerbie plot
0:22:33 > 0:22:34had showed up to welcome him home.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41The first man to greet Megrahi was another none other than Said Rashid -
0:22:41 > 0:22:43the alleged mastermind of the plot.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53But even more senior than Rashid was the man who Megrahi
0:22:53 > 0:22:56was about to greet in the front seat of this SUV.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Who is this?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I began to feel that Megrahi's return had become
0:23:03 > 0:23:06a kind of reunion for the suspected Lockerbie plotters.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11It also seemed to be a belated victory celebration.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17The night's featured speaker was Said Rashid.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Listening to Rashid, I tried to understand the mind
0:23:28 > 0:23:32of a Gaddafi loyalist, who may have plotted to down my brother's plane.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52On this night, Gaddafi couldn't have seemed more pleased
0:23:52 > 0:23:53with Rashid.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57But I was told things didn't end well for him.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01In the chaotic early moments of the revolution, Gaddafi grew
0:24:01 > 0:24:05paranoid and came to question the loyalty of the ultimate loyalist.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Rashid was shot as a traitor.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I'd already been away from my family for weeks,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18but I didn't have much to show for it.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22The men I was looking for had either fled the capital or were
0:24:22 > 0:24:26laying low in places where I would never be able to find them.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31NEWS REPORT: This is all that remains of Colonel Gaddafi's convoy as he tried to escape...
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Then there was Gaddafi himself.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38For weeks, Gaddafi had holed up in his hometown of Sirte.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40When he tried to slip out one morning,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43a NATO airstrike hit his convoy point-blank.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47'Somehow, though, Colonel Gaddafi himself escaped from all this.'
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Gaddafi and a few of his security detail
0:24:50 > 0:24:52took cover in this drainage pipe.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57The rebels dragged Muammar Gaddafi, once the most powerful man
0:24:57 > 0:25:02in Libya, out of the drainage ditch and that's when the mayhem started.'
0:25:04 > 0:25:08Gaddafi's last moments were recorded.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10His last words, reportedly were,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12"Don't kill me, don't kill my sons".
0:25:14 > 0:25:17When this video hit the news, reporters began to call me
0:25:17 > 0:25:19and other Lockerbie relatives.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23They wanted to know what we felt, were we satisfied?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29I watched Gaddafi's death over and over, trying to feel some
0:25:29 > 0:25:31bloodlust for the man who may have
0:25:31 > 0:25:34given the order to blow up Flight 103.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38But I only managed to feel a strange empathy for this beaten man
0:25:38 > 0:25:40pleading for his life.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Rebels hoisted Gaddafi's body onto a truck
0:25:42 > 0:25:44so the crowds could see their prize.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Meanwhile, I heard a rumour that one of the remaining men on my list
0:25:49 > 0:25:53had been in the convoy with Gaddafi that morning.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56We found a video of the survivors who had been taken prisoner
0:25:56 > 0:25:58by a vengeful rebel militia.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Most were low-level loyalists
0:26:08 > 0:26:11and tribesman brought in to fight Gaddafi's last stand.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16The prisoners were marched into a field, shot execution style
0:26:16 > 0:26:20and left to rot in the desert sun.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24The most high-profile among them was the man I'd been looking for,
0:26:24 > 0:26:28a loyalist named Ezzedine Hinshiri,
0:26:28 > 0:26:32who'd stuck with Gaddafi until the end. This looks like him, doesn't it?
0:26:32 > 0:26:33It looks like it.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47I knew little of Ezzedine Hinshiri's
0:26:47 > 0:26:50role in Lockerbie except that he'd made the initial
0:26:50 > 0:26:53order of the timers said to have blown up Flight 103.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59Hinshiri had been close friends with Said Rashid, both were engineers,
0:26:59 > 0:27:03both had been involved with the timers and now both were dead.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08By my count, there were now only four men left on my list.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10One of them,
0:27:10 > 0:27:14I was told, had died of a heart attack just a few months earlier.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17He wasn't like the others, not a regular intelligence officer
0:27:17 > 0:27:20or a member of Gaddafi's inner circle, but an airline
0:27:20 > 0:27:24executive who may have been co-opted to take part in the plot.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27His name was Badri Hassan.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32Badri, believe you me, is a scapegoat.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36I'm sure he never knew what was going on until it was too late.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41Or after it happened. Souad Hassan was Badri's wife.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Her brother, Yaseen, worked with Badri part-time
0:27:45 > 0:27:49and for years listened to his sister's questions about Lockerbie.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Souad said her suspicions about Badri began almost immediately
0:27:52 > 0:27:54after the bombing.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01A short time, you mean, after Lockerbie?
0:28:18 > 0:28:21You're sure of what? That was he wasn't involved?
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Do you know why I am so interested in all of this? No.
0:28:31 > 0:28:36I had an older brother. He was on the plane that went down over Lockerbie.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Really? I'm very sorry to hear that. So sorry.
0:28:48 > 0:28:53Badri died with a lot of secrets, Ezzedine,
0:28:53 > 0:28:57Said Rashid, Abdullah Senussi, they were always there
0:28:57 > 0:28:59on the front-line,
0:28:59 > 0:29:02they were always there willing to do the wicked stuff...
0:29:04 > 0:29:08..for Gaddafi. And Abdelbaset.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12What was Badri's relationship with Megrahi?
0:29:18 > 0:29:23When was this? They met in '87. '87. The first meeting in Zurich.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27Zurich, Switzerland.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Souad told me that Badri and Megrahi rented an office here
0:29:30 > 0:29:33for more than a year before Lockerbie.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37It turned out they were right down the hall from the Swiss company MEBO
0:29:37 > 0:29:41that made the timer said to have blown up Flight 103.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47It's thought that the device was bought from MEBO in Zurich.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Badri was the connection
0:29:49 > 0:29:53between this MEBO company and the Libyan intelligence.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56Yeah. Badri tried to prove that
0:29:56 > 0:30:00they didn't know what the device was going to be used for.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04Do you think Abdelbaset knew what the device was going to be used for?
0:30:04 > 0:30:06I think Abdelbaset, he knows everything.
0:30:10 > 0:30:15The truth has to come out about Pan Am 103. Yes.
0:30:15 > 0:30:20The connection of Switzerland. The connection of Megrahi.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Eh... The connection of Zurich.
0:30:24 > 0:30:30You would get a lot of information out of a certain Swiss person,
0:30:30 > 0:30:33Mr...Bollier? Bollier.
0:30:33 > 0:30:39He's located in Zurich. Zurich. This MEBO company.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48It had been just over a year since I first set off to Libya
0:30:48 > 0:30:49in search of answers,
0:30:49 > 0:30:53but now, I was convinced that a key piece of the story
0:30:53 > 0:30:54lay here in Zurich,
0:30:54 > 0:30:57where investigators traced the custom-built timer
0:30:57 > 0:30:59that was so critical to the Lockerbie plot.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04At some point, this timer was fitted into the Lockerbie bomb
0:31:04 > 0:31:06so it would blow up, at least in theory,
0:31:06 > 0:31:09exactly when the terrorists desired.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12NEWS REPORT: Edwin Bollier is said to have supplied the timer
0:31:12 > 0:31:14which set off the Lockerbie explosion.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17Investigators first came here to question Edwin Bollier
0:31:17 > 0:31:20about his timers back in late 1990.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21They showed him a photograph
0:31:21 > 0:31:23of the fragment they'd found near Lockerbie
0:31:23 > 0:31:26and Bollier identified it as a piece of a timer
0:31:26 > 0:31:29he'd sold to the Libyan military a few years earlier.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33Over the years, however, he's changed his story.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37He now maintains that the timer they say blew up Flight 103
0:31:37 > 0:31:39was not actually one of those he sold to Libya.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40Bollier?
0:31:45 > 0:31:48I told Edwin Bollier that my brother was on Flight 103
0:31:48 > 0:31:49and that I was searching for the truth.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51KNOCKING
0:31:51 > 0:31:55And, after an initial meeting, Bollier agreed to film with me.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Hello. Hello. How are you? How are you?
0:31:58 > 0:32:01People say, "You're going to speak with Edwin Bollier -
0:32:01 > 0:32:05"yeah, he's not trustworthy" or "He's hiding something". Yes, yes...
0:32:05 > 0:32:07"He was involved, he was helping the Libyans". Yes.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09What's your response to them?
0:32:27 > 0:32:29I'll show you...
0:32:29 > 0:32:31'Bollier insists that he's simply a contractor
0:32:31 > 0:32:34'who sold electronics to the Libyan military.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38'But I wanted to walk through the story with him, step-by-step.'
0:32:47 > 0:32:50'We began with the fact that the Libyan businessman,
0:32:50 > 0:32:53'Badri Hassan, had rented office space from Bollier
0:32:53 > 0:32:55'the year before the bombing.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59'Badri's partner in the Zurich office
0:32:59 > 0:33:00'was Abdelbaset al-Megrahi -
0:33:00 > 0:33:04'the man who would later be convicted for the Lockerbie bombing.'
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? Yes, yeah.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09What was he like as a person? What was his character? Was he...?
0:33:16 > 0:33:20Did you believe that he was involved in the bombing of Flight 103?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22No, no, no. No, no.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28Bollier says Badri and Megrahi were rarely in the Zurich office.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31But then, just a few weeks before the bombing,
0:33:31 > 0:33:35Badri came to Bollier with a rush order for timers.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN
0:33:41 > 0:33:43'The original order for these timers
0:33:43 > 0:33:46'came three years earlier, Bollier explained.'
0:33:53 > 0:33:55..not only these 20 - a lot...
0:33:55 > 0:33:58'Bollier hoped for a contract to make more than 1,000 of these timers
0:33:58 > 0:34:02'and he said he delivered 20 prototypes to the Libyan military.'
0:34:05 > 0:34:07'But the two men who originally ordered these timers,
0:34:07 > 0:34:09'Ezzedine Hinshiri and Said Rashid,
0:34:09 > 0:34:12'were not regular military officers.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14'They were Gaddafi inner circle members
0:34:14 > 0:34:16'and intelligence officials.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20'And it was Badri Hassan, a civilian with ties to the inner circle,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23'who would come to Bollier about the timers just before Lockerbie.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26'Bollier insists that he had no idea
0:34:26 > 0:34:28'the reason behind Badri's rush order.'
0:34:29 > 0:34:33When Badri ordered these timers, he wanted them right away. Yes.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Did he say... Why such a rush, all of a sudden?
0:34:35 > 0:34:38Cos the original order was three years earlier.
0:34:38 > 0:34:39Yeah, no, uh...
0:34:48 > 0:34:51So you're saying they put an order in 1985.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53It's supposed to be for 1,500.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55You never hear about it, you're always checking -
0:34:55 > 0:34:57"What about the order?"
0:34:58 > 0:35:01And then all of a sudden, three years later...
0:35:01 > 0:35:02Yes, curious. Curious.
0:35:05 > 0:35:06I guess what I wanted to know,
0:35:06 > 0:35:08cos you had a lot of business with the Libyans -
0:35:08 > 0:35:11anything about the way they ordered these timers that made you think
0:35:11 > 0:35:15that they were using them for, uh...for bombs? No.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17For terrorism? No. Was there anything that seemed unusual?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30Bollier says he was out of stock of the MST-13 timers
0:35:30 > 0:35:32that the Libyans had rush-ordered.
0:35:32 > 0:35:36So he delivered some knock-off timers which they rejected.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39In the end, though, it didn't matter -
0:35:39 > 0:35:42the Lockerbie judges concluded that one of the original timers
0:35:42 > 0:35:45supplied by Bollier to the Libyans years earlier
0:35:45 > 0:35:47had been used to blow up flight 103.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54At the time the FBI first encountered Edwin Bollier,
0:35:54 > 0:35:58they didn't fully understand his long relationship with the Libyans.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01It all began in the mid-1970s,
0:36:01 > 0:36:04when Bollier said he started supplying the Libyans
0:36:04 > 0:36:09with broadcasting equipment - police radios, fax machines.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11But by the early 1980s,
0:36:11 > 0:36:15the CIA began to suspect that he was supplying the Libyans with much more.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20The details come from this once classified CIA technical report.
0:36:20 > 0:36:26It explains that in 1984, four years before Lockerbie,
0:36:26 > 0:36:28the CIA uncovered briefcase bombs
0:36:28 > 0:36:30in the hands of Libyan operatives in north Africa.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34Semtex explosive inside the suitcase
0:36:34 > 0:36:37was detonated with a custom-made firing device,
0:36:37 > 0:36:38using Motorola pagers.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42And these pagers were ultimately traced back
0:36:42 > 0:36:44to MEBO and Edwin Bollier.
0:36:45 > 0:36:49There's a whole CIA report on these devices. Mm-hm.
0:36:49 > 0:36:54They find a briefcase and, and...Semtex and, um... Mm-hm.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57So they're analysing this whole thing.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59This was in '84. Right - I mean, if you had known
0:36:59 > 0:37:02this guy seems to be supplying the Libyans
0:37:02 > 0:37:04with devices to do bad things,
0:37:04 > 0:37:07I mean, would that have coloured your dealings with him at all?
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Yeah, it would have certainly given me
0:37:10 > 0:37:12a little bit different look
0:37:12 > 0:37:14at who this guy is and what he might be up to.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18Well, actually - so, this report makes clear that the CIA, I think,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21through the Swiss police, told him, "knock it off" about the pagers,
0:37:21 > 0:37:22back in 1984.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Yes - it says he was contacted by the Swiss police about those pagers.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29So he does seem to have an awareness, at some point,
0:37:29 > 0:37:33that the stuff he's making is being used for terrorism... Oh, yeah.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36I think anybody who deals with the Libyans
0:37:36 > 0:37:41in electronic weapons and things knows they're probably being used,
0:37:41 > 0:37:44at some point in time, in some way, for terrorism. Right.
0:37:44 > 0:37:49But...did he give these timers and other equipment
0:37:49 > 0:37:51with the intent to blow up airplanes?
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Proving that is pretty damn hard to do.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00So, just what did Edwin Bollier know about the timing devices
0:38:00 > 0:38:02he was supplying to the Gaddafi regime?
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Not long after Bollier first delivered these timers
0:38:05 > 0:38:08to the Libyans, police seized one of them
0:38:08 > 0:38:12among a cache of weapons in the West African nation of Togo.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15Then, just ten months before Lockerbie,
0:38:15 > 0:38:18the CIA learned about another of Bollier's timers.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21It was found in the hands of Libyan operatives
0:38:21 > 0:38:25attempting to bomb targets in Senegal.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28The CIA had written detailed reports on the Togo and Senegal timers,
0:38:28 > 0:38:30linking them both back to Edwin Bollier.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35But all of this took on new significance in June of 1990,
0:38:35 > 0:38:37when Lockerbie investigators came to them
0:38:37 > 0:38:40with the circuit board fragment they'd found at the crash site.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47The CIA produces photographs of what we call the Senegal timer
0:38:47 > 0:38:51after two Libyan intelligence operatives
0:38:51 > 0:38:55travelling with pistols with silencers, Semtex,
0:38:55 > 0:38:58blasting caps and this timer
0:38:58 > 0:39:02were arrested by the Senegalese government
0:39:02 > 0:39:04and it was sort of, like,
0:39:04 > 0:39:08if we can establish that MEBO made the Senegal device,
0:39:08 > 0:39:12they probably made the Togo timer as well.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15So they take the thing apart
0:39:15 > 0:39:18and on one of the circuit boards within the timer,
0:39:18 > 0:39:21they find something that's scratched out,
0:39:21 > 0:39:24that was determined to say "M-E-B-O".
0:39:25 > 0:39:28I mean, did you used to write "MEBO" on the circuit board? Yes.
0:39:28 > 0:39:33All the PC boards have "MEBO".
0:39:33 > 0:39:38Why this is scratched, here, I don't know.
0:39:38 > 0:39:43Well, they say because... But you can read "MEBO", it's clear, yeah. MEBO.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47I guess what they would say is that if the Libyans were using your timers
0:39:47 > 0:39:52for terrorism, they wanted to scratch it out so no-one would figure it out.
0:39:52 > 0:39:57I...I don't know, but that... That it's scratched is...
0:39:57 > 0:40:02This is curious. I mean, just your relationship with Libya.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05You know, you...you gave them radio equipment...
0:40:05 > 0:40:07You had a long relationship with them, then suddenly,
0:40:07 > 0:40:14you find that your timers are showing up in the hands of Libyan agents
0:40:14 > 0:40:19in Togo or Senegal and they're using your timer for terrorist purposes.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21I mean, how did you feel about that?
0:40:21 > 0:40:23Oh, I was not... The feeling was not good.
0:40:23 > 0:40:28So it's clear that we stop everything immediately
0:40:28 > 0:40:33with such...such things, with timers and commando cases.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36We have stopped everything.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39But I told also, on the first time...
0:40:39 > 0:40:41'It wasn't clear to me when Bollier says he stopped
0:40:41 > 0:40:44'supplying electronics to Libya, or why,
0:40:44 > 0:40:47'and he still maintains he was only made aware
0:40:47 > 0:40:50'of the Togo and Senegal operations much later.'
0:40:50 > 0:40:53But at the Lockerbie trial, it emerged that Bollier
0:40:53 > 0:40:57was actually in Tripoli during the week before the Senegal operation.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00When asked about the purpose of this visit
0:41:00 > 0:41:03and whether it had anything to do with his timers,
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Bollier replied that he couldn't remember.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09Bollier did remember another trip to Libya that year.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12He told the FBI that he was in Tripoli that December,
0:41:12 > 0:41:16just before what turned out to be a major operation...Lockerbie.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21He said he ended up at Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's office,
0:41:21 > 0:41:23just two nights before the bombing.
0:41:23 > 0:41:26It was here he said that he witnessed a meeting.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30That was...
0:41:30 > 0:41:32'Bollier still recalled that night
0:41:32 > 0:41:35'and even drew me the layout of Megrahi's office.'
0:41:35 > 0:41:40Here, I think, here was the room from Abdelbaset...with doors,
0:41:40 > 0:41:42and they have a meeting here.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44And then, we...
0:41:44 > 0:41:46'But what was this meeting at the office
0:41:46 > 0:41:50'of the man later convicted
0:41:50 > 0:41:54..with the meeting and waiting for Megrahi on that evening,
0:41:54 > 0:41:56so close to Lockerbie... Yeah.
0:41:56 > 0:42:01The prosecution at the trial, they made this sound like the Libyans
0:42:01 > 0:42:03were planning Lockerbie in this room here,
0:42:03 > 0:42:04right across from you.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06They say this, yes. They say this.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Do you think that's what was going on in there? No, no. No, no.
0:42:09 > 0:42:10I see...
0:42:16 > 0:42:19The only problem with Bollier's current denial
0:42:19 > 0:42:22is that it once again contradicts what he said years ago
0:42:22 > 0:42:24when he initially spoke with investigators.
0:42:25 > 0:42:29At that time, he made clear that this meeting before Lockerbie
0:42:29 > 0:42:32involved thugs and some high-ranking Gaddafi officials
0:42:32 > 0:42:35and when asked about the purpose of the meeting,
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Bollier told the FBI that this meeting
0:42:37 > 0:42:39could have been part of the preparations
0:42:39 > 0:42:41for the bombing of Flight 103.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43NEWS REPORT: Edwin Bollier, MEBO's owner,
0:42:43 > 0:42:46was a slippery and unconvincing witness...
0:42:46 > 0:42:49At the time Bollier testified at the trial of the Libyans,
0:42:49 > 0:42:53he attempted to discredit much of the prosecution case.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57He claimed the timer fragment he'd admitted was his back in 1990,
0:42:57 > 0:43:00the key piece of physical evidence linking the bomb to Libya,
0:43:00 > 0:43:04was essentially a fake, planted by unnamed conspirators
0:43:04 > 0:43:07to frame him and the Libyans for the bombing
0:43:07 > 0:43:09and Bollier's been trying to prove
0:43:09 > 0:43:11that he's been the victim of a fraud ever since.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15So you're saying it wasn't Libya. Yes.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17And it wasn't Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Yes.
0:43:17 > 0:43:18And it wasn't your timer. Yes.
0:43:18 > 0:43:23And we don't know who fabricated the evidence... Yes, yes.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25..against Libya and you. Yes.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27We know nothing. Yeah, yeah, true.
0:43:28 > 0:43:34When you see from this side, we know nothing.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37BEEPING
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Unfortunately for Bollier, a special Scottish commission
0:43:45 > 0:43:48reviewed most of his claims about the timer fragment
0:43:48 > 0:43:52and found them completely unsupported by evidence.
0:43:52 > 0:43:57And his idea of an international conspiracy to link him to Flight 103?
0:43:57 > 0:44:01The commission strongly suggested that this was pure fantasy.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09CLANKING
0:44:19 > 0:44:24So what to do next? How long would I keep up the chase?
0:44:24 > 0:44:28There was still just one person ever convicted for Lockerbie -
0:44:28 > 0:44:30Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33And he continued to protest his innocence
0:44:33 > 0:44:35now that he was back home in Libya.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45I decided to return to Tripoli to see if I could talk to Megrahi myself
0:44:45 > 0:44:48now that there was a new government in place.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51My old friend and translator Suliman
0:44:51 > 0:44:54had offered to help me track him down.
0:44:54 > 0:44:58It turned out we weren't the only ones trying to find him.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00NEWS REPORT: A lot of late news out of Libya tonight.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03Among the new developments, CNN's Nic Robinson managed to locate
0:45:03 > 0:45:06the Pan Am 103 bomber. Here is his report.
0:45:06 > 0:45:11Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish jail two years ago.
0:45:11 > 0:45:15He came home to a hero's welcome, freed on compassionate grounds,
0:45:15 > 0:45:19because doctors said he'd be dead in three months,
0:45:19 > 0:45:24The convicted Pan Am 103 bomber lives.
0:45:24 > 0:45:28We found Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's villa in an upmarket part of town.
0:45:28 > 0:45:33At least six security cameras and floodlights outside.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36I don't see the guys, the neighbourhood watch guys.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38This is Megrahi's house,
0:45:38 > 0:45:41this is where he's been living for the last couple of years.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44We're going to knock on the door, see if we can get any answer.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Hello.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50'For 15 minutes or so, nothing...'
0:45:50 > 0:45:53I remember the reporter from CNN found Megrahi.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55I'm not sure that they've heard me,
0:45:55 > 0:45:57so let's try the last-ditch means, which is...
0:45:57 > 0:46:00He tried to jump over the wall of Megrahi's house.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02Hello. Hello, hello.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10We tried so many times to go to that place and we just knock on the door.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12You going to park right in front?
0:46:12 > 0:46:16Yes. Just... OK. Just normal. Just be yourself.
0:46:16 > 0:46:22The very first time nobody answered. We spent, like, an hour there.
0:46:22 > 0:46:26Every time we go, we discuss how we can approach them and how to explain
0:46:26 > 0:46:30a foreigner, let alone a foreigner who wants to film with Megrahi.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35At that point, we all thought that Megrahi was brought back
0:46:35 > 0:46:39to Libya under bogus sick leave or something,
0:46:39 > 0:46:44that he was supposed to die two years before but he didn't.
0:46:44 > 0:46:45RINGING TONE
0:46:45 > 0:46:48And we then realised that the guy was actually dying.
0:46:55 > 0:47:00It's been decades since the bomb exploded on board Pan Am 103.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04It seemed the secrets of the attack would die with the bombers.
0:47:04 > 0:47:09Convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
0:47:09 > 0:47:13appears to be just a shell of the man he was.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Do you know how long he has left?
0:47:19 > 0:47:23Whatever secrets he has may soon be gone.
0:47:26 > 0:47:32Time was running out to meet Megrahi, but then I got a break.
0:47:32 > 0:47:33Right here, right here.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37I met up with Dr Jim Swire, a Lockerbie relative,
0:47:37 > 0:47:38who I'd known for years.
0:47:38 > 0:47:43It turned out he'd also made the trip to Libya in search of answers.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46And he too was here to try to meet with Megrahi before he died.
0:47:46 > 0:47:51Unlike me, Dr Swire had been to Libya many times before.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54When was your first trip to Tripoli?
0:47:54 > 0:47:57It was about two weeks after they issued
0:47:57 > 0:48:00the indictments against the two Libyans.
0:48:00 > 0:48:04'Back in 1991, Dr Swire came here to meet face-to-face
0:48:04 > 0:48:07'with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
0:48:07 > 0:48:12'Over the years, Swire worked hard to persuade Gaddafi to turn over
0:48:12 > 0:48:15'the subjects, so the evidence could finally be heard in a proper court.'
0:48:15 > 0:48:19NEWS REPORT: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted
0:48:19 > 0:48:22of 270 counts of murder and sentenced...
0:48:22 > 0:48:25But during the course of the resulting trial,
0:48:25 > 0:48:28Swire says he became troubled by key elements of the prosecution case.
0:48:28 > 0:48:32The judges had found weaknesses in the identification of Megrahi
0:48:32 > 0:48:35as the man who had bought the clothes wrapped around the bomb
0:48:35 > 0:48:39and Swire believed the prosecution had failed to prove
0:48:39 > 0:48:42the route that the bomb bag had taken to get onto Flight 103.
0:48:42 > 0:48:46And then there were deep questions that Swire and others would raise
0:48:46 > 0:48:51about the legitimacy of the key piece of physical evidence in the case,
0:48:51 > 0:48:53which they suspect was in some way not genuine.
0:48:53 > 0:48:58All of this in the end convinced Swire that Megrahi was innocent.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02He began to meet with the convicted bomber in prison,
0:49:02 > 0:49:06then started a public campaign for his release.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08I'm well aware that what we're doing is disturbing
0:49:08 > 0:49:11to those who think they've found closure through
0:49:11 > 0:49:15the conviction of the Libyan, Megrahi, but I think it would
0:49:15 > 0:49:21be inhumane, indeed downright cruel, to keep a man in prison to die...
0:49:21 > 0:49:24Please understand that I think what I'm doing is to seek the truth
0:49:24 > 0:49:26and I also think that
0:49:26 > 0:49:30if you would look with an open mind for yourselves, you would find
0:49:30 > 0:49:35there's a great deal of truth there that you haven't yet looked at.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47We were perhaps a strange team.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50Dr Swire wanted a chance to say farewell to a man
0:49:50 > 0:49:52he now considered a friend.
0:49:52 > 0:49:56And I wanted to meet a man I believed had helped murder his daughter
0:49:56 > 0:49:58and my brother.
0:50:20 > 0:50:24The plan was to show up at Megrahi's house with Dr Swire.
0:50:24 > 0:50:30I was unlikely to get in, but if I did get my moment alone with Megrahi,
0:50:30 > 0:50:33it was the kind of thing I felt I needed to capture.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39Suliman tried to discourage me from secret filming in Libya
0:50:39 > 0:50:43and Dr Swire didn't know at all about my hidden camera.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45Oh, hello, this is Jim Swire.
0:50:45 > 0:50:50This is Khaled. Oh, Khaled, hello. Oh, bless you, thank you.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53But I felt the situation was just unusual enough to justify it.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55Hi. Hi.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57This is my friend... Hi.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01Megrahi's son Khaled came to greet us.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03How is Baset today?
0:51:08 > 0:51:10That would be great.
0:51:23 > 0:51:28The family was very sensitised by then to the media
0:51:28 > 0:51:29and the reason they let me in...
0:51:29 > 0:51:32I mean, they knew, you see, that Megrahi actually wanted to see me.
0:51:38 > 0:51:43But I couldn't get you past the entrance hall of the house.
0:51:43 > 0:51:48I was taken straight into the room where Baset was lying in bed
0:51:48 > 0:51:53and he was really drifting in and out of consciousness
0:51:53 > 0:51:55but he smiled when he saw me come in.
0:51:55 > 0:51:59He held out a feeble hand to welcome me, as it were.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02And there were tears on both sides, actually.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04We both knew it was our last meeting.
0:52:07 > 0:52:12So you had gone in and had your meeting and I was thinking,
0:52:12 > 0:52:14"What am I going to do?"
0:52:17 > 0:52:22And I was shown by the 11-year-old to the bathroom,
0:52:22 > 0:52:27knowing that to the left was Megrahi's room.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31So I was ushered into the bathroom.
0:52:31 > 0:52:32What do I do?
0:52:34 > 0:52:38And I'm washing my hands and I'm thinking,
0:52:38 > 0:52:43"Am I going to make a scene?" The only person outside the door
0:52:43 > 0:52:48"is his young son, am I going to push past him
0:52:48 > 0:52:52"and go into the room and say, 'Did you murder my brother?
0:52:52 > 0:52:56"'Tell me what you know before you die.'"
0:52:56 > 0:53:00And I thought, "What is really going to come of that meeting?"
0:53:00 > 0:53:05I had come in as your guest and as their guest.
0:53:05 > 0:53:09He was dying and he had made his position clear.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14And for a bunch of different reasons, I walked out.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27Thanks very much for your help. OK. Thank you very much.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31I never spoke directly to Megrahi,
0:53:31 > 0:53:33but I did listen to his final messages to the world.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02NEWS REPORT: Some breaking news, the only person convicted in the 1988
0:54:02 > 0:54:05Lockerbie bombing has reportedly died.
0:54:05 > 0:54:09Megrahi always said that he would prove his innocence before he died.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11He was never able to do it.
0:54:11 > 0:54:14It always appeared that it was unlikely that one person could
0:54:14 > 0:54:18have been behind such a complex operation and...
0:54:18 > 0:54:22My idea had been to talk face-to-face with just one of the men
0:54:22 > 0:54:23involved in my brother's bombing,
0:54:23 > 0:54:27but after several trips to Libya, I'd come up short.
0:54:28 > 0:54:31Dr Swire might suggest that this was significant.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34There's no-one to talk to perhaps
0:54:34 > 0:54:37because it wasn't primarily the Libyans who did it.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40But I wasn't prepared to accept this.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44I kept coming back to this video I'd gotten out of Libyan state TV.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48I was convinced it confirmed key parts of the story of Lockerbie
0:54:48 > 0:54:51if only I could fully understand it.
0:54:51 > 0:54:56First up the stairs was the man in the striped shirt, Zaid Rasi,
0:54:56 > 0:55:00one of the men who originally ordered the timers from Edwin Bollier,
0:55:00 > 0:55:05and there to pick him up at the airport was Abdullah Senussi,
0:55:05 > 0:55:07the Libyan spy chief who was once convicted of the bombing
0:55:07 > 0:55:09of a French passenger plane
0:55:09 > 0:55:13and who was always suspected of a key planning role in Lockerbie.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19And then there was the man in the back seat, a mystery Libyan official.
0:55:19 > 0:55:23He must have been important to have been in the car at that moment,
0:55:23 > 0:55:25but who was he?
0:55:25 > 0:55:27I couldn't help but suspect that he might be
0:55:27 > 0:55:30the big remaining question mark on my list -
0:55:30 > 0:55:33an elusive figure, whom investigators never fully explained.
0:55:33 > 0:55:38You mention this mysterious figure, I don't know how his name came into it.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40Abu Agela Mas'ud? Yeah.
0:55:41 > 0:55:44Mas'ud's name came from the CIA.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47And I think the information we got was that he was a technical guy,
0:55:47 > 0:55:50maybe he's the guy that hooked up the bomb,
0:55:50 > 0:55:53but he's one of those guys that we can never identify.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55When the Scots went to Libya in 1999,
0:55:55 > 0:55:59they asked about Mas'ud and they said, "We don't know who he is.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01"Can't identify him, no idea who this guy is."
0:56:03 > 0:56:08The name of Abu Agela Mas'ud first surfaced during the investigation.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11It came from a low-level Libyan intelligence agent
0:56:11 > 0:56:14who secretly provided information to the CIA.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17In the days and weeks before Lockerbie,
0:56:17 > 0:56:21the witness observed Abdelbaset al-Megrahi travelling to the island
0:56:21 > 0:56:25of Malta where the Lockerbie bomb is said to have originated
0:56:25 > 0:56:29and travelling with him was the mystery man Abu Agela Mas'ud.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32The CIA suspected Megrahi
0:56:32 > 0:56:36and Abu Agela of being on some type of technical intelligence operation,
0:56:36 > 0:56:40very close to the time of Lockerbie, but that's all they seemed to know.
0:56:40 > 0:56:44Abu Agela had slipped through the investigators' net
0:56:44 > 0:56:47and so did one last man on my list who
0:56:47 > 0:56:51I suspected of playing a key planning role in the plot, Nassr Ashur.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54NEWS REPORT: ..Nassr Ashur as the key figure in a series
0:56:54 > 0:56:56of arms smuggling operations. Gaddafi chose...
0:56:56 > 0:56:59Ashur was Gaddafi's right-hand man
0:56:59 > 0:57:02when it came to supplying Semtex plastic explosive
0:57:02 > 0:57:06to Irish Republican Army terrorists in the years before Lockerbie.
0:57:06 > 0:57:12150 tonnes of weapons for the IRA, including two tonnes of Semtex.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14In my years of work on this story,
0:57:14 > 0:57:18I only talked to one person who said he knew Colonel Ashur
0:57:18 > 0:57:22and had actually worked with him testing bombs in the Libyan Desert.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48This was the thing that they tested in the desert?
0:57:48 > 0:57:51Did anyone ever figure out when those tests were?
0:57:55 > 0:58:00So Lockerbie was '88, so it was the year before. It was before.
0:58:00 > 0:58:05So tell me about that. I was working in Libya in broadcasting.
0:58:05 > 0:58:10We make new studios and somebody came from the military police,
0:58:10 > 0:58:13"Can you come for two days into the desert?"
0:58:13 > 0:58:16We make tests for something and so
0:58:16 > 0:58:22and he bring me, and Nassr came, he bring me to this desert.
0:58:23 > 0:58:28Bollier denies that these tests in the desert were related to Lockerbie,
0:58:28 > 0:58:33but the tests did involve his timers and dropping bombs from airplanes.
0:58:33 > 0:58:37And at the trial when Bollier was asked who exactly joined him
0:58:37 > 0:58:41for these tests in the desert, he said a few Libyan colonels
0:58:41 > 0:58:45were present, including Colonel Nassr Ashur, the explosives supplier.
0:58:45 > 0:58:50Bollier said a dark-skinned man was at the tests as well.
0:58:50 > 0:58:53He knew him only as Colonel Ibrahim, but I still wondered
0:58:53 > 0:58:56if he was talking about the elusive bomb technician on my list.
0:58:57 > 0:59:01I remembered about the black colonel also
0:59:01 > 0:59:04when we make the tests in the desert.
0:59:05 > 0:59:07Very dark skin?
0:59:07 > 0:59:09Oh, he have dark skin.
0:59:11 > 0:59:15And a small man, a small one. I don't know exactly.
0:59:16 > 0:59:19Right, but what's interesting is the dark-skinned man seemed to
0:59:19 > 0:59:23have been the technical adviser, travelling with Megrahi.
0:59:23 > 0:59:26The name was... What's the name?
0:59:26 > 0:59:29Mas'ud Abu Agela. Mas'ud Abu Agela...
0:59:29 > 0:59:32No, I not know this man.
0:59:32 > 0:59:38I have heard this name, possible... Sometimes hear...
0:59:38 > 0:59:42Oh, you have heard the name? Mas'ud Abu Agela?
0:59:42 > 0:59:46Possibly, I have heard the name. But...
0:59:46 > 0:59:50'I couldn't be sure whether Bollier actually knew Abu Agela.
0:59:50 > 0:59:55'But he did mention a dark-skinned man at several key points in the story.'
0:59:55 > 0:59:59So here's the... This is about the test you're talking about. Yes.
0:59:59 > 1:00:02A military base near Sebha. Sebha, yes.
1:00:02 > 1:00:04"Bollier attended a meeting.
1:00:04 > 1:00:08"A discussion centred on problems the Libyans were having with detonating bombs." Yeah.
1:00:08 > 1:00:10These experiments in the desert
1:00:10 > 1:00:15were two big container bombs by aeroplane.
1:00:15 > 1:00:20And I have written that in the package was Semtex.
1:00:20 > 1:00:24OK, can you see why it's suspicious if you were at a test in the desert
1:00:24 > 1:00:29the year before Lockerbie, where they were using a timer
1:00:29 > 1:00:33and detonating a bomb and there were members of the Libyan military?
1:00:33 > 1:00:35There was this man, Colonel Nassr,
1:00:35 > 1:00:40who turned out to be the man who was helping supply Semtex to the IRA.
1:00:40 > 1:00:42You know, the Irish Republican Army.
1:00:42 > 1:00:44Possibly, I have heard of this, yes. Yeah.
1:00:44 > 1:00:48So, he's there and this dark-skinned man, he's there.
1:00:48 > 1:00:53And then you're there. You know? This is why...it looks suspicious...
1:00:53 > 1:00:58Yes. ..that you are helping the Libyans make the bomb that blew up Flight 103.
1:00:58 > 1:01:00No, no, nothing.
1:01:00 > 1:01:02No, no, no. No. No.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19Talking to Bollier was frustrating,
1:01:19 > 1:01:24but it did make me feel like I was getting closer to the truth.
1:01:24 > 1:01:27He was linked with almost every man on my list,
1:01:27 > 1:01:29but I just couldn't connect the dots.
1:01:30 > 1:01:33Now I was back to work on the others.
1:01:33 > 1:01:37The men I was looking for could be anywhere at this point.
1:01:37 > 1:01:42I couldn't pick up any trace of the suspected bomb suspect, Abu Agela.
1:01:42 > 1:01:45But I heard rumours that another of the men on my list,
1:01:45 > 1:01:48someone with a record of supplying explosives to terrorists,
1:01:48 > 1:01:53had fled the country, maybe to Cairo.
1:01:53 > 1:01:54But his trail has gone cold too.
1:01:56 > 1:01:59There was one major figure on my list who definitely fled the country.
1:01:59 > 1:02:02And not long after my last trip into Libya,
1:02:02 > 1:02:05he was finally captured and brought back for trial.
1:02:05 > 1:02:08NEWS REPORT: It was a humbling return home for Abdullah al-Senussi.
1:02:08 > 1:02:11Once one of the most feared people in the country,
1:02:11 > 1:02:15now surrendered by Libyans chanting for justice and revenge.
1:02:15 > 1:02:17Senussi is alleged to have been one of the masterminds
1:02:17 > 1:02:19behind the Lockerbie attack.
1:02:19 > 1:02:24I felt sure Senussi knew the truth about Lockerbie.
1:02:24 > 1:02:26But would he ever tell it?
1:02:26 > 1:02:29And what about the rest of these three dozen men on trial?
1:02:29 > 1:02:31What did they know?
1:02:32 > 1:02:34I knew only one person who had contact with
1:02:34 > 1:02:37these former Gaddafi officials personally -
1:02:37 > 1:02:40Libya expert, Hafed Al Ghwell.
1:02:40 > 1:02:43These men believe, "I didn't do anything wrong.
1:02:43 > 1:02:47"I was a part of a government, I represented my nation.
1:02:47 > 1:02:52And, you know, "I don't believe I did anything wrong."
1:02:54 > 1:02:58I mean, some of these guys killed for Gaddafi,
1:02:58 > 1:03:01you know, in the '70s and '80s.
1:03:01 > 1:03:04Gaddafi knew they will always be loyal to him.
1:03:04 > 1:03:06Because everything they have comes from him.
1:03:08 > 1:03:11NEWS REPORT: The Reagan administration sees Colonel Gaddafi
1:03:11 > 1:03:15as public enemy number one because he supports worldwide terrorism.
1:03:15 > 1:03:20This Mad Dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution.
1:03:20 > 1:03:22Muslim fundamentalist revolution...
1:03:22 > 1:03:24The seeds of Lockerbie, I have come to believe,
1:03:24 > 1:03:27were sown in the days when President Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi became
1:03:27 > 1:03:30locked in an escalating war of words and attacks.
1:03:30 > 1:03:34The leaders of the Western world have called you a terrorist, Colonel Gaddafi.
1:03:40 > 1:03:44Dressed in a designer jumpsuit and sporting sunglasses...
1:03:44 > 1:03:46How did this guy come to be known to Americans, you know,
1:03:46 > 1:03:50as this almost cartoonish but dangerous figure?
1:03:50 > 1:03:53This is the persona Gaddafi wanted.
1:03:53 > 1:03:58"This is how I'm going to make a mark on the world stage."
1:03:58 > 1:04:01And he started picking fights...
1:04:01 > 1:04:02for no reason.
1:04:02 > 1:04:06The finger of suspicion is pointing hard tonight at Muammar Gaddafi, the
1:04:06 > 1:04:09Libyan leader, in connection with Wednesday's nightclub explosion.
1:04:09 > 1:04:12..Friday's bloody terrorist attacks on airports in Vienna and Rome.
1:04:12 > 1:04:16Mr Gaddafi must know that we'll hold him fully accountable
1:04:16 > 1:04:18for terrorist operations against Americans.
1:04:18 > 1:04:21Gaddafi picked the fight. It wasn't the US's fault.
1:04:21 > 1:04:25The fault of the US is that it reacted to him.
1:04:27 > 1:04:29It was called operation El Dorado Canyon.
1:04:29 > 1:04:33The attack on Libya almost 24 hours ago has left many Libyans
1:04:33 > 1:04:34dead or injured.
1:04:34 > 1:04:37Last night's raid took a heavy toll here. Libyan officials admit...
1:04:37 > 1:04:41I warned Colonel Gaddafi we would hold his regime accountable.
1:04:41 > 1:04:45He did open hostilities and we closed them.
1:04:45 > 1:04:49Libyan radio was recorded as saying that one of Muammar Gaddafi's
1:04:49 > 1:04:50houses was hit...
1:04:50 > 1:04:55The bombing of '86, it had a huge impact on Gaddafi's psyche.
1:04:55 > 1:05:00If the Americans were trying to wipe out Colonel Gaddafi's home, they couldn't have got much closer.
1:05:00 > 1:05:06It was a ten-minute bombing raid. He disappeared underground.
1:05:06 > 1:05:09Even his inner circle did not know exactly where he was
1:05:09 > 1:05:11for about three and a half months.
1:05:11 > 1:05:14And I know somebody who saw him during that period.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16He said he was completely devastated.
1:05:16 > 1:05:23He was in a massive depression and could not believe that...
1:05:23 > 1:05:26No matter what, this is politics.
1:05:26 > 1:05:29"Why are they trying to kill me and kill my family?"
1:05:29 > 1:05:33Abu Shalgam, one of Colonel Gaddafi's most senior diplomats,
1:05:33 > 1:05:35ready to talk about revenge.
1:05:35 > 1:05:38We said that we will attack any place.
1:05:38 > 1:05:41I think I am clear. I am speaking clearly.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44Abdel Rahman Shalgam later renounced Gaddafi.
1:05:44 > 1:05:47But as Libya's ambassador in Rome back in 1986,
1:05:47 > 1:05:49he threatened revenge for the US attack.
1:05:49 > 1:05:51This is the largest Libyan People's Bureau in Europe...
1:05:51 > 1:05:55He said Libyan embassies around the world were put on alert to
1:05:55 > 1:05:56look for American targets.
1:06:06 > 1:06:11And so the message was, "There will be revenge"? Exactly.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14The mass funeral was for victims of Monday night's air raid.
1:06:14 > 1:06:16Coffins were carried along to anti-American chants...
1:06:26 > 1:06:30And you mentioned someone pledging revenge. Yeah. Said Rashid.
1:06:59 > 1:07:02You said if Libya was involved in Lockerbie, Said Rashid could
1:07:02 > 1:07:06have organised it. Yeah, exactly.
1:07:20 > 1:07:24He could plan out the different parts of a complicated operation? Exactly.
1:07:24 > 1:07:30Shalgam said he tried often to get answers about Lockerbie from key
1:07:30 > 1:07:33members of the Gaddafi inner circle, like Abdullah Senussi.
1:07:38 > 1:07:40About Lockerbie? About Lockerbie.
1:07:51 > 1:07:54But Shalgam was much more certain about the Libyan role
1:07:54 > 1:07:56in another attack against the Americans,
1:07:56 > 1:07:59two and half years before Lockerbie.
1:08:05 > 1:08:08The La Belle disco?
1:08:08 > 1:08:11It was around 2am when the bomb went off
1:08:11 > 1:08:13in the crowded La Belle discotheque.
1:08:13 > 1:08:16Police say there were about 500 people inside,
1:08:16 > 1:08:19many of them off-duty US soldiers.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22The cycle of revenge that ended in Lockerbie likely began
1:08:22 > 1:08:27here in Germany, when US servicemen at a Berlin nightclub
1:08:27 > 1:08:30were attacked in April of 1986.
1:08:30 > 1:08:32The evidence is now conclusive
1:08:32 > 1:08:36that the terrorist bombing of La Belle discotheque was planned
1:08:36 > 1:08:39and executed under the direct orders of the Libyan regime.
1:08:39 > 1:08:41Orders were sent from Tripoli...
1:08:41 > 1:08:45What interested me were clues that several of the men on my list
1:08:45 > 1:08:48were also involved in the disco bombing.
1:08:48 > 1:08:52Said Rashid seems to have led the attack but was never prosecuted.
1:08:52 > 1:08:56But there was another man who worked for him on the disco bombing,
1:08:56 > 1:08:59and this man would ultimately become the most significant figure
1:08:59 > 1:09:01in my search for answers about Lockerbie.
1:09:01 > 1:09:06Police have arrested a Libyan man suspected in the 1986 bombing
1:09:06 > 1:09:08of a discotheque in Berlin.
1:09:08 > 1:09:12A bombing widely seen as an attack against the United States.
1:09:12 > 1:09:16The man's name - Musbah Abulgasem Eter.
1:09:16 > 1:09:19The disco where the bomb went off was a hang-out for US...
1:09:19 > 1:09:22As it happened, I was able to track down Musbah Eter
1:09:22 > 1:09:25in Berlin in 2012, and he was willing to talk with me.
1:09:25 > 1:09:28TRANSLATION:
1:09:45 > 1:09:49Musbah Eter had spent years in a German prison for the disco bombing.
1:09:49 > 1:09:52I tried myself to understand Eter's past.
1:09:55 > 1:09:58Musbah Eter arrived in Germany in 1984,
1:09:58 > 1:10:02an intelligence operative working undercover at the Libyan Embassy
1:10:02 > 1:10:05along with dozens of others, all of whom were under
1:10:05 > 1:10:08surveillance by the East German secret police, the Stasi.
1:10:09 > 1:10:11By late March of 1986,
1:10:11 > 1:10:15Eter was deeply involved with the plot to bomb the Berlin disco.
1:10:15 > 1:10:20Some ten years later, he confessed to the German authorities.
1:10:20 > 1:10:24And it was in that confession where Eter first mentioned a Libyan
1:10:24 > 1:10:28bomb expert who played a key role in the plot.
1:10:28 > 1:10:31Eter described a Libyan who brought the bomb
1:10:31 > 1:10:40and instructed him how to assemble it, how to put it together,
1:10:40 > 1:10:43There was a Libyan bomb expert?
1:10:43 > 1:10:48A Libyan bomb expert, yes. Do you remember the name of that person?
1:10:48 > 1:10:53Eter always referred to him as "Abugela".
1:10:53 > 1:10:57And, of course, sorry, as a German prosecutor,
1:10:57 > 1:11:00I have no idea how to spell Abugela.
1:11:00 > 1:11:04I would probably spell it like "jelly" or something.
1:11:04 > 1:11:07So I asked him, put it down, please.
1:11:07 > 1:11:09And this is what he did.
1:11:09 > 1:11:12And he wrote "neger" - black skin.
1:11:12 > 1:11:14But here, in German,
1:11:14 > 1:11:19it doesn't have the negative meaning it has in the US.
1:11:20 > 1:11:23And that's the only description he wrote there of him,
1:11:23 > 1:11:26so it must be as most important feature? Yes, yes.
1:11:26 > 1:11:30That he is very dark-skinned? Mm-hm, yeah.
1:11:30 > 1:11:34Eter's story was credible, it was highly accurate
1:11:34 > 1:11:39and it fit in with the information we had obtained
1:11:39 > 1:11:41through the Stasi files.
1:11:42 > 1:11:45Danke schoen.
1:11:45 > 1:11:49More La Belle files? Yes, this is only part of it.
1:11:49 > 1:11:52The Stasi had a lot of information about the Libyans?
1:11:52 > 1:11:54The Stasi had a lot of information on the Libyans...
1:11:54 > 1:11:57'The East German secret police, the Stasi,
1:11:57 > 1:12:02'kept a close watch on the Libyans in East Berlin back in the 1980s.
1:12:02 > 1:12:05'And they had the La Belle suspects under close surveillance
1:12:05 > 1:12:06'before and after the bombing.
1:12:08 > 1:12:12'A lot of the more sensitive files they compiled were likely destroyed.
1:12:12 > 1:12:17'But enough were preserved to help make the case against the Libyans for La Belle,
1:12:17 > 1:12:20'and I was hoping there were still enough documents left to make
1:12:20 > 1:12:22'the key link to Lockerbie.'
1:12:22 > 1:12:25Could we see one, then?
1:12:25 > 1:12:26To my surprise,
1:12:26 > 1:12:30I was able to find Abu Agela's name all over the Stasi files.
1:12:30 > 1:12:33After the disco bombing, it seemed,
1:12:33 > 1:12:37he stayed in room 526 at Berlin's Metropol Hotel.
1:12:37 > 1:12:42He used various codenames and aliases, but the Stasi was
1:12:42 > 1:12:48also able to record his real Libyan passport number - 835004.
1:12:48 > 1:12:52And this number turned out to be exactly what I was looking for.
1:12:52 > 1:12:56The missing piece of a puzzle I had been trying to assemble for years.
1:12:56 > 1:13:00You know, I looked at the Stasi files and I was surprised to see this,
1:13:00 > 1:13:03Abu Agela and his passport number there,
1:13:03 > 1:13:05because in the Lockerbie case,
1:13:05 > 1:13:08there were CIA cables that describe Abu Agela's name and his role
1:13:08 > 1:13:12and showed his passport number and there was a match.
1:13:12 > 1:13:16Would that surprise you, that the bomb expert in La Belle
1:13:16 > 1:13:18was also involved in Lockerbie?
1:13:18 > 1:13:23Of course, I'm not surprised that Abugela would also do the same
1:13:23 > 1:13:27for other bombs, including Lockerbie.
1:13:30 > 1:13:33So what did all this really mean?
1:13:33 > 1:13:37I kept coming back to those images I had gotten from state TV in Libya.
1:13:37 > 1:13:41More specifically, I was focused on the man I believe was Abu Agela
1:13:41 > 1:13:46there in the back seat, greeting Megrahi when he returned home.
1:13:46 > 1:13:50Records show that Megrahi and Abu Agela were travelling on
1:13:50 > 1:13:53the same flight several times before Lockerbie, flying in
1:13:53 > 1:13:57and out of the island of Malta where the bomb was said to have originated.
1:13:57 > 1:14:00In the days and weeks before the bombing,
1:14:00 > 1:14:04the CIA's informant at the Malta airport suspected that Megrahi
1:14:04 > 1:14:07and Abu Agela were planning some type of special operation.
1:14:08 > 1:14:11We absolutely were convinced that he was involved
1:14:11 > 1:14:14and that he may have been the guy that wired up the bomb,
1:14:14 > 1:14:17that did all the technical stuff for the explosive.
1:14:17 > 1:14:22But we had no other... We didn't know who else he was. Right.
1:14:22 > 1:14:24Basically, this CIA assessment tells a story.
1:14:24 > 1:14:27'I walked the original Lockerbie investigators through
1:14:27 > 1:14:30'the trail that led me to the Libyan bomb expert.'
1:14:30 > 1:14:33And Mas'ud Abu Agela.
1:14:33 > 1:14:35Passport number - 835004.
1:14:35 > 1:14:39It is the same as the Stasi documents.
1:14:39 > 1:14:43So, Megrahi is travelling twice before Lockerbie
1:14:43 > 1:14:46with the bomb expert from La Belle disco.
1:14:46 > 1:14:48That is pretty interesting.
1:14:48 > 1:14:51It would have been great to have known all that.
1:14:53 > 1:14:55That's amazing.
1:14:55 > 1:14:57So, during the La Belle investigation,
1:14:57 > 1:15:00they find some Stasi documents. This is from April '86.
1:15:00 > 1:15:03This is the week after La Belle disco.
1:15:03 > 1:15:05And then you find this name.
1:15:07 > 1:15:09Hmm.
1:15:09 > 1:15:14And you find the passport number. 835004. Is that the same?
1:15:14 > 1:15:18Yes, it certainly is! There is a solid connection here.
1:15:18 > 1:15:22There's the same passport number... It is a hell of a coincidence.
1:15:22 > 1:15:25And there is a witness in Berlin.
1:15:25 > 1:15:28His name is Musbah Eter.
1:15:28 > 1:15:32He is the Libyan who confessed in the La Belle case who names Abu Agela.
1:15:32 > 1:15:33He looks like this.
1:15:35 > 1:15:37And what does he say?
1:15:37 > 1:15:40He says basically Abu Agela armed the bomb for the La Belle disco.
1:15:40 > 1:15:45Yeah. It is in German, but I will give you from the English side.
1:15:45 > 1:15:48I mean... You know, if agents brought me this now and,
1:15:48 > 1:15:50you know, I'm not there,
1:15:50 > 1:15:54I don't know what the... But as a prosecutor assessing...
1:15:54 > 1:15:56You go talk to this guy, you find out what he says,
1:15:56 > 1:15:58you get his story down,
1:15:58 > 1:16:01you try and figure out how you can corroborate him.
1:16:05 > 1:16:09I returned to Berlin several times to learn more from Musbah Eter.
1:16:09 > 1:16:13At this point, I told him my brother had been killed
1:16:13 > 1:16:14in the Lockerbie bombing
1:16:14 > 1:16:17and that I was hoping he might be able to help me find the truth.
1:16:22 > 1:16:24He took me to the building
1:16:24 > 1:16:27where he and Abu Agela had worked together in the mid-1980s.
1:16:39 > 1:16:41I was hoping he would tell me more about Lockerbie.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44But then, in the middle of our filming,
1:16:44 > 1:16:46Eter struck up a conversation
1:16:46 > 1:16:48with a businessman who now worked at the old embassy.
1:17:25 > 1:17:28Eter persuaded the businessman to take him inside.
1:17:30 > 1:17:31And back in his old office,
1:17:31 > 1:17:35Eter kept getting deeper into the details of what he had done here.
1:18:37 > 1:18:40Libya has descended into its worst violence
1:18:40 > 1:18:44since the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi three years ago.
1:18:44 > 1:18:48The news from Libya was consistently grim.
1:18:48 > 1:18:51Some people I talked to there quietly longed for the order
1:18:51 > 1:18:52of the old regime.
1:18:52 > 1:18:56In Libya, a trial has begun for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi
1:18:56 > 1:18:59and more than two dozen of his ex-officials.
1:18:59 > 1:19:01At the same time in Tripoli,
1:19:01 > 1:19:05the new government was continuing its trial of former Gaddafi officials.
1:19:05 > 1:19:08Ex-spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi was among the defendants
1:19:08 > 1:19:10fenced off behind bars.
1:19:10 > 1:19:15From corruption to war crimes related to the 2011 uprising...
1:19:15 > 1:19:18The Libyans were interested in crimes committed during the revolution.
1:19:18 > 1:19:22But I was listening at home for details about the men on my list.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26Then, in the middle of the trial,
1:19:26 > 1:19:29a photo arrived by e-mail from Musbah Eter.
1:19:31 > 1:19:34It was poor quality and came with no explanation,
1:19:34 > 1:19:38but in the centre of the frame was a dark-skinned man.
1:19:38 > 1:19:42The blue jumpsuit and prison bars made it pretty clear that he
1:19:42 > 1:19:46was one of the men on trial in Tripoli.
1:19:46 > 1:19:50So I went looking for every photo I could find of these men on trial.
1:19:50 > 1:19:53And there in one of them, behind Abdullah Senussi,
1:19:53 > 1:19:57the former intelligence chief, was the dark-skinned man.
1:19:59 > 1:20:04The more I looked, the more photos I found of him.
1:20:04 > 1:20:09I captured these images and sent them to Musbah Eter in Berlin.
1:20:09 > 1:20:13He said this was indeed the bomb expert Abu Agela. 100%.
1:20:18 > 1:20:20It was hard to believe I was now looking at the man
1:20:20 > 1:20:24I had been trying to find for so many years.
1:20:24 > 1:20:29But I still wanted more confirmation, so I connected with a human rights
1:20:29 > 1:20:32worker who had been monitoring the trials in Libya.
1:20:32 > 1:20:34Hi, Ken. Hey, how are you?
1:20:34 > 1:20:37We can attempt cameras but I'm not sure it's going to...
1:20:37 > 1:20:40'I told her I was looking for.
1:20:40 > 1:20:43'At first she couldn't find Abu Agela's name on the list.
1:20:43 > 1:20:45'But then...'
1:20:45 > 1:20:47Wait, wait. Wait, I have a name.
1:20:47 > 1:20:50It is just written slightly differently.
1:20:50 > 1:20:52What does it look like to you?
1:20:52 > 1:20:56I think it's defendant number 28 in this case.
1:20:56 > 1:20:59So his first name is Abu A'ujilah, that would be his first name.
1:20:59 > 1:21:00Mm-hmm.
1:21:00 > 1:21:06And to my understanding, the biggest case against him seems to be
1:21:06 > 1:21:10the bomb-making in relation to the 2011 conflict.
1:21:11 > 1:21:15Charges of setting up bombs and vehicles. Wow.
1:21:15 > 1:21:17That sounds like him. Yeah.
1:21:17 > 1:21:20I would say that is for sure the same person.
1:21:27 > 1:21:30I'm interested in the story that connects La Belle, Lockerbie...
1:21:30 > 1:21:34So, I am mainly responsible for collecting evidence.
1:21:34 > 1:21:37Well, that is really what I am interested in.
1:21:37 > 1:21:39'I made contact with a German lawyer who had extensive files
1:21:39 > 1:21:42'on Libyan terror operations.'
1:21:42 > 1:21:45I am deeply interested in all the nitty-gritty of who did what
1:21:45 > 1:21:48and there is one person I think whose name comes up...
1:21:48 > 1:21:49What is his name?
1:21:49 > 1:21:52Mas'ud Abu Agela. Yeah, yeah.
1:21:52 > 1:21:54We have been checking the finals
1:21:54 > 1:21:57but we haven't found anything on this name.
1:21:57 > 1:22:00What I would suggest is that we meet each other...
1:22:00 > 1:22:03The lawyer was willing to help me track the bomb expert,
1:22:03 > 1:22:07Abu Agela, who he said was still wanted for the disco bombing.
1:22:07 > 1:22:11The lawyer was also interested in the link to Lockerbie.
1:22:11 > 1:22:14In both cases, the key witness would turn out to be
1:22:14 > 1:22:16the lawyer's client, Musbah Eter.
1:22:18 > 1:22:21Since my last trip to Berlin, I learned the US government
1:22:21 > 1:22:23had contacted Eter.
1:22:23 > 1:22:27They had apparently heard about the link I had found between him,
1:22:27 > 1:22:29the Libyan bomb expert and Lockerbie.
1:22:31 > 1:22:35I believe that the law enforcement people,
1:22:35 > 1:22:41they are motivated and they take it very serious.
1:22:41 > 1:22:45'Andreas Schulz is Musbah Eter's lawyer.
1:22:45 > 1:22:47'He was careful not to reveal too many details
1:22:47 > 1:22:49'of the ongoing investigation.'
1:22:49 > 1:22:53The competent authority in the US is the FBI for this case
1:22:53 > 1:22:56and that means that the FBI was here.
1:22:56 > 1:22:58How about Lockerbie? Recently, yes.
1:22:58 > 1:23:01But the main problem is time.
1:23:01 > 1:23:04Time is running against the investigation
1:23:04 > 1:23:07because these people are at a certain age.
1:23:07 > 1:23:11But, you know, this is in the hands of the US authorities.
1:23:11 > 1:23:15We put all the power and capability the US has...
1:23:15 > 1:23:21I think there are always ways to get a hand on the culprits
1:23:21 > 1:23:27of Lockerbie, so it is a question of their political will.
1:23:30 > 1:23:33Since the bombing in 1988,
1:23:33 > 1:23:36the FBI has maintained Lockerbie as an open case.
1:23:36 > 1:23:40But to my knowledge, they never found a witness with real
1:23:40 > 1:23:42first-hand information about the plot.
1:23:43 > 1:23:46That is until they apparently became aware of my reporting
1:23:46 > 1:23:49about Musbah Eter, then requested to meet with him
1:23:49 > 1:23:51several times at the US Embassy in Berlin.
1:23:53 > 1:23:58It was in these meetings, I later found out,
1:24:01 > 1:24:04Eter told the FBI that he had no doubt that Lockerbie was
1:24:04 > 1:24:06carried out by Libyan intelligence.
1:24:06 > 1:24:13He said the operation was led by Said Rashid,
1:24:13 > 1:24:15with at least double the casualties.
1:24:17 > 1:24:19During the year before Lockerbie, Eter said,
1:24:19 > 1:24:22Rashid hatched a plan to take down a US plane.
1:24:22 > 1:24:26He said Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was part of these early discussions
1:24:26 > 1:24:31and would be a key member of the team that would carry it out.
1:24:31 > 1:24:34Most significantly, Eter said he had conversations with
1:24:34 > 1:24:37the technical expert who he had worked with on the disco bombing,
1:24:37 > 1:24:39Abu Agela,
1:24:39 > 1:24:41and that Abu Agela personally told him
1:24:41 > 1:24:44that he had helped carry out Lockerbie.
1:24:45 > 1:24:48Abu Agela apparently also took responsibility for La Belle
1:24:48 > 1:24:52and the bombing of a French passenger plane that killed 170 people.
1:24:53 > 1:24:57If he said these things and there are facts to back up
1:24:57 > 1:25:01some of the things he says, and it sounds like there are,
1:25:01 > 1:25:04I don't know why they would not want to bring that to court.
1:25:04 > 1:25:05Right.
1:25:07 > 1:25:11If there is somebody alive today that was involved in this
1:25:11 > 1:25:17and there is knowledge of that, we should be going after them.
1:25:17 > 1:25:18We should be going after them.
1:25:18 > 1:25:22We would have gone after them in 1991,
1:25:22 > 1:25:25especially if we have this kind of information.
1:25:25 > 1:25:28We would have indicted, certainly would have indicted him.
1:25:31 > 1:25:35When it came to Abu Agela, the original Lockerbie investigators did
1:25:35 > 1:25:39gather important evidence that they were never able to use against him.
1:25:39 > 1:25:42This evidence centred around the airport in Malta
1:25:42 > 1:25:46just off the Libyan coast where the bomb was said to have originated.
1:25:46 > 1:25:51Here, they found the landing card that showed Abu Agela had entered
1:25:51 > 1:25:54Malta the week before the bombing, complete with the passport number
1:25:54 > 1:25:57that matched the CIA and Stasi records.
1:25:57 > 1:26:00They even had Abu Agela's fingerprints.
1:26:02 > 1:26:05Then they found the passenger list for the flight that Abu Agela
1:26:05 > 1:26:07took home to Tripoli the day of the bombing,
1:26:07 > 1:26:11possibly after helping arm the device that was then sent on to fight 103.
1:26:13 > 1:26:17Joining Abu Agela on that flight was Abdelbaset al-Megrahi,
1:26:17 > 1:26:19who was travelling under a known alias.
1:26:21 > 1:26:24All of this evidence was gathered years ago
1:26:24 > 1:26:27but it took Musbah Eter's statements in Berlin
1:26:27 > 1:26:30to apparently tie it all together and potentially
1:26:30 > 1:26:34generate the first new charges in the case in some 25 years.
1:26:37 > 1:26:41The more we go deeper into this, the more we realise
1:26:41 > 1:26:44we were always on the right track and we were always right about this.
1:26:44 > 1:26:47Right. But how does that make you feel? Like...
1:26:47 > 1:26:50I mean, where are we now? I don't know.
1:26:50 > 1:26:53It has gone, you know, about as far as I can go.
1:26:53 > 1:26:57You know, what happened inside that embassy, it is out of my hands
1:26:57 > 1:27:03and Eter is now potentially a witness in a federal case.
1:27:03 > 1:27:07He is not a guy in my movie any more.
1:27:07 > 1:27:12I think you have pushed as hard as you can push. This is...
1:27:12 > 1:27:15Maybe this is as far as you can go, so...
1:27:19 > 1:27:23The whole purpose of finding them was to come face-to-face,
1:27:23 > 1:27:26sit there with someone and say,
1:27:26 > 1:27:30"You know you killed my brother, and he was a real person
1:27:30 > 1:27:33"and I loved him and other people loved him
1:27:33 > 1:27:35"and you shouldn't have done that." Yeah.