Taking the blame
Paul Foot, 6 January 1994
Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA
by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman.
Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £16.99, September 1993,9780747515623 Show More
by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman.
Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £16.99, September 1993,
The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103
by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke.
Fulton, 346 pp., £14.99, October 1993,9781853462252 Show More
by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke.
Fulton, 346 pp., £14.99, October 1993,
“... seemed happy to support the most ludicrous claims coming from the White House. In other words, as Donald Goddard puts it, from the moment of Saddam’s invasion ‘nothing more was heard from official sources on either side of the Atlantic about Syrian complicity in the Flight 103 bombing.’ From now on the official view of the disaster was that Syria ... ”