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Festival cancels Lockerbie film
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The Independent - London
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November 11, 1994
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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its premiere at the London Film Festival, has been withdrawn by the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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