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Festival cancels Lockerbie film

A controversial film about the Lockerbie bombing, due to have its premiere at the London Film Festival, has been withdrawn by the festival's organisers under threat of a libel action by a retired US intelligence agent.

The film alleges that the attack was not sponsored by Libya, as British and US authorities claim, but by Syria. It offers evidence to suggest that after the explosion of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988, Britain and the US covered up Western intelligence contacts with Syrian terrorists. The film concludes that through these contacts Western authorities had advance warning of the bombing.

The man whose legal threat led to the cancellation of the film's premiere is a ...

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