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The United States has never apologized for or admitted wrongdoing for shooting down the airliner. No one was ever prosecuted or punished for it. Vice-President George H. W. Bush said repeatedly that he didn't care about the facts; he wouldn't apologize for America.
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Six months later, Pan Am 103 was shot down over Scotland.
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At first, the US blamed Iran-backed Palestinians for the crime, but, in the meantime, Saddam Hussein had fallen out of favor. He seemed to think that the US owed him for the attack on Iran. When he told the American ambassador that Kuwait was slant-drilling Iraqi oil, and he was planning on attacking them, she said," We have no position on your border dispute with Kuwait".
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Saddam was punk'd!
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The US-organized international backing for its attack on Iraq, and part of the deal with Iran was blaming two Libyans for the bombing of Pan Am 103, instead of the Palestinians. Libya wasn't cooperating with the US.
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But they did hand the two over in 1999 and, after a "trial", one was convicted:Â Abdelbasit Ali al-Megrahi.
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But on appeal, a Scottish court found that he had suffered a "miscarriage of justice", and the defense was planning on showing that the US had l ied about evidence and bribed witnessses to get the conviction. Pan Am hired investigators to help them prove that they weren't liable and they found some interesting facts. Maybe the Palestinian terrorists planned to blow up that plane, but their efforts were facilitated by the very same drugs-for-guns terrorists that were working with Oliver North!
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(And who was on that plane, although others were warned against boarding? A team of DIA investigators looking into the drug-running of Oliver North and his terrorist buddies.)
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