In the mid-70s there were three trials leading go sixteen convictions. Those cases have left a trail of names, witness statements and police interviews. ibid.
The informant gave up a fresh name: Michael Reilly. ibid.
Former British soldier turned IRA terrorist: Francis James Gavin … We believe Gavin is the prime suspect for ‘the older planter’. ibid.
Another member of the cell – Mick Murray. ibid.
These are dark times in Malta. There have actually been at least nineteen bomb attacks in Malta in recent years. Mediterranean with Simon Reeve I, BBC 2018
No security system is perfect, and when a security system fails, passengers’ lives are put in danger. World’s Worst Flights s1e2: Bomb on Board, 2019
31st May 2017 Melbourne: Malaysia Airlines flight 128: ‘I came across a man dressed all in black, with dark skin, a beard, beanie pulled down over his eyes, holding a big black object’ … ‘Somebody stuck their foot out and tripped him up’ … Special forces stormed the plane. ibid.
There have many attempts to storm a cockpit or blow up a plane. ibid.
Daallo Airlines flight 159 2nd February 2016: There was a large blast from inside the plane … The blast had punctured a four-foot hole in the side of the plane … ‘The authorities tried to blame the crew’ … Airport workers handed him [passenger] a laptop that contained a bomb. ibid.
Alexandria Egypt March 2016 EgyptAir flight 181 to the capital Cairo … ‘One of the cabin crew started collecting the passports’ … One of the stewardesses said, ‘Apparently we are hijacked…’ ibid.
5th August 2014 Qatar Airways 23 from Doha to Manchester: Just 100 metres from the plane’s wingtip was an RAF fighter jet … A passenger in a green T-shirt … ‘They just dragged him out the seat and pinned him to the ground’ … It was a hoax. ibid.
Vigilance can sometimes lead to false alarms. ibid.
New York 27th March 2012 early morning JetBlue flight 191 … ‘We grabbed him and pulled him away from the door’ … ‘We are able to pin the pilot on the belly of the plane and restraining him was a difficult task’ … As passengers restrained the pilot, the co-pilot declared an emergency … ‘We started a very very rapid and steep descent’ … Ready to board were the emergency services … ibid.
45 km from Mosul, Iraq: ‘It’s an electronic trigger. If you step on it, the mine explodes right away. 5 kg is enough to set it off.’ Storyville: Hurt Locker Hero, Colonel Fakhir, BBC 2018
‘Major Fakhir is walking towards death.’ ibid. radio message
‘I wanted to get back at the Americans for killing my brother.’ ibid. captured bomber
‘They planned this to kill him. Bastards!’ ibid. bloke on radio
‘Fakhir and his two assistants Masoud and Lokman were killed.’ ibid. brother
On 21st December 1988 a brown Samsonite suitcase was loaded on to Pan Am Flight 103. Inside the case was a bomb. At 7.03 pm that night it exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie: 259 passengers and crew and 11 local residents were killed … The bomb was made of 450 grams of Semtex explosive attached to a timer; the bomb was then placed inside a Toshiba radio-cassette player; the cassette player was placed inside a brown suitcase. Lockerbie: The Unheard Voices, Channel 5 2018
Two days earlier, the British transport department wrote to airlines are Heathrow warning of a bomb being concealed in a Toshiba radio-cassette player. The letter was not received by Pan-Am till three and a half weeks later. ibid.
Just how and when the brown suitcase arrives at Heathrow is disputed. The airport’s security system fails to detect the bomb concealed inside. ibid.
‘Run, run, run and I reach the gate’ … Jaswant misses the plane by a matter of seconds but his suitcase is on board.’ ibid.
Inside this primitive cabin, one man declared war on the world, provoking the greatest manhunt in US history. From 1978 to 1996 he created explosive devices, destroyed lives and threatened a nation. How did one man evade capture for almost two decades? The Secret History: Hunt for the Unabomber, 2008
The bomber is using the same signature ingredients. ibid.
At 15 he is accepted into Harvard University. ibid.
He becomes the nation’s most elusive serial murder. ibid.
A deep seated hatred of psychologists. ibid.
If your intention is to kill civilians: how would you define an atrocity? Greatest Events of World War II VIII: Dresden Firestorm, Professor Sonke Neitzel, Netflix 2019
Dresden was a raid that went horribly right – superhot air spreading the fire underground. ibid. English historian
The bombing of Dresden is one of the most controversial events of World War II. ibid.
What is the truth about Dresden? ibid.
London is hit by blitz for over fifty consecutive days. ibid.
The German air raids in Britain kill over 40,000 people. ibid.
Hamburg: a firestorm grips the city … over 43,000 people are killed … A shock even to Winston Churchill … ‘This strange duality in Churchill.’ ibid. English historian
Harris’s bombing campaign is relentless. ibid.
There were very few bomb shelters in the city [Dresden]. ibid.
244 Lancasters dropped their bombs in the space of about 15 minutes. Huge high-explosive blockbuster bombs and 200,000 clustered incendiaries smashed into the historic centre of Dresden. The precise combination is deliberately designed to get inside the buildings and start fires. ibid.
Desperate to end the War the US is planning to invade Japan. But unleashing the elemental power of the atom offers another way out. President Truman makes a fateful decision to deploy the most deadly weapon ever created. Greatest Events of World War II X: Hiroshima
The tide turned with the Battle of Midway … and steadily pushing the Japanese back … The single most destructive air attack ever carried out; at the start of the campaign it destroyed 67 cities. ibid.
A fascist state … the military effectively rule the country through fear, censorship and fierce indoctrination … The authorities do everything they can to cement this sense of devotion. ibid.
By April 1945 the US have a foothold on Okinawa, less than 400 miles from Japan … The losses on both sides are appalling. ibid.
Deep in New Mexico the Manhattan Project engineers are on the verge of opening a new and even darker prospect. ibid.
The ethics of this destructive weapon are not a priority for Truman. ibid.
A burst of neutron and gamma radiation emanates out along with deadly shockwaves. In less than a second 70,000 people are killed. A giant mushroom of smoke rises from the five and a half thousand degree firestorm. ibid.
Nagasaki: at 11.01 am the United States had deployed the plutonium bomb Fatman on the city. ibid.
Go back to 1969 ... Suddenly a lot of bombs go off. And they kill people all over the place. And everybody’s scared. And you have this effect of terror; the first effect of terror is fear ... In 2001/2 you have the trial in Italy and you find out it was not the communists, it was right-wing people, it was people from the Catholic’s camp – it was a False Flag operation. Daniele Ganser