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OB OY oF VEN? NO REINCARNATION WITHOUT PERMISSION crucial "timer"—evidence that helped tie the man convicted of the bombing to the crime. > a Former Libyan agent Abdulbaset al-Megrahi is currently serving his sentence in Greenock prison, but later this month [September] the Scottish Court of Appeal is expected to hear Megrahi's case, after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled in June that there was enough evidence to suggest a miscarriage of justice. The Zurich-based Swiss businessman Edwin Bollier, who has spent nearly two decades trying to clear his company's name, is as eager for the appeal as is Megrahi. Bollier's now bankrupt company, Mebo, manufactured the timer switch that prosecutors used to implicate Libya after they said that fragments of it had been found on a Scottish hillside. Bollier, now 70, admits having done business with Libya. "Two years before Lockerbie, we sold 20 MST-13 timers to the Libyan military. FBI agents and the Scottish investigators said one of those timers had been used to detonate the bomb. We were shown a fuzzy photograph and I confirmed the fragments looked as though they came from one of our timers." However, Bollier was uneasy with the photograph he had been shown and asked to see the fragments. He was finally given permission in 1998 and travelled to Dumfries to see the evidence. "I was shown fragments of a brown circuit board which matched our prototype. But when the MST-13 went into production, the timers contained green boards. I knew that the timers sold to Libya had green boards. I told the investigators this." In 2001, Bollier spent five days in the witness box at the Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands. "I was a defence witness, but the trial was so skewed to prove Libyan involvement that the details of what I had to say [were] ignored. A photograph of the fragments was produced in court and I asked to see the pieces again. When they were brought to me, they were practically carbonised. They had been tampered with since I had seen them in Dumfries." (Source: The Observer, UK, 2 September 2007, http://tinyurl.com/3ds38n) I; a move that would be comical if it were not so serious, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is bringing in new rules from 1 September, apparently to "completely control" Buddhism in Tibet. The new rules state that "Lamas are no longer allowed to reincarnate without first obtaining permission from the communist authorities”. Such permission might be hard to obtain from an official in advance, and no doubt what the rules really mean is that all state recognition of a particular incarnation can only be obtained from the Communist Party. Obviously the CCP wishes to appoint its own to every position of authority within Tibetan Buddhism, as it has tried to do in the case of the current Panchen Lama, who was abducted 12 years ago at the age of six and has not been heard from since. The Communist Party has already announced that it will select the new Dalai Lama from inside Tibet. However, His Holiness has stated on many occasions that in his next incarnation he will be born outside Tibet, in a free country—unless an acceptable resolution to the Tibet issue has been agreed. (Source: Tibet Custom, 3 August 2007, http:/}www.tibetcustom.com/article.php/2007 0803133532961) KEY LOCKERBIE EVIDENCE WAS "TAMPERED WITH" he key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate Libya in the Lockerbie bombing has emerged as a probable fake. Nearly two decades after Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland on 21 December 1988, allegations of international political intrigue and shoddy investigative work are being levelled at the British government, the American FBI and the Scottish police as one of the crucial witnesses, Swiss engineer Ulrich Lumpert, apparently confessed at the end of August that he had lied about the origins of a Sure THERES woTMG COT CRAP, BvT Hew ITS mise. | | ——— Somerw. fe 6 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER —- NOVEMBER 2007