Lockerbie: My Brother's Bomber

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0:00:03 > 0:00:07This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

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.