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Subject: [RMNEWS] FBI VS KEY LOCKERBIE WITNESS -- NEW DAY IN COURT
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Help Shine the Light on Les Coleman
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --
14 May 2000
NEW DAY IN COURT SCHEDULED
FOR FBI VERSUS KEY LOCKERBIE WITNESS
In the Uniondale federal courtroom of Judge Thomas Platt this Friday,
Lester Coleman faced accusations by FBI special agents that he had
committed a crime by talking about the 1988 Pan Am 103 crash over
Lockerbie. Coleman's crime, according to the prosecution, was
committed during a trial that took place in Kentucky earlier this
year.
Coleman is a key witness in the Pan Am 103 trial, now underway in Camp
Zeist, the Netherlands.
In 1997, Coleman was convicted of perjury for an affidavit presented in
the same Uniondale courtroom some six and a half years earlier. It was
used in a lawsuit filed by Pan American Airlines against the US. His
testimony blew the whistle on a massive CIA/DEA drug smuggling operation
which he said facilitated the smuggling of a bomb aboard Flight
103.
Coleman swore under oath that a bag of heroin aboard the flight, bound
for a DEA drug sting operation in the US, was switched for a bag of
explosives. His affidavit was recently corroborated by Roland ONeill,
an airport baggage handler whose allegations appeared in an article
published by the Sunday Herald, a Glasgow paper, this April.(1) Like
Coleman, ONeill is now considered a key witness for the defense in the
Lockerbie trial.
After being convicted of perjury for his testimony in 1997, Coleman was
released under supervision. But in 1999, Coleman was once again arrested
in Kentucky, this time charged with possessing forged documents. The
documents in question were funds sent to him from Europe to assist him
in traveling to the Netherlands for Pan Am 103 hearings. Coleman, who
was found guilty of the charge in a Lexington, Kentucky courtroom, is
currently appealing the verdict.
The FBI's latest accusations against Coleman were met with skepticism by
Judge Thomas Platt, who produced a copy of the Sunday Herald article.
Suggesting that the prosecution had some explaining to do, the judge
granted the plaintiffs less than a week to examine Coleman's testimony
in the Kentucky trial.
Coleman is scheduled to appear once again in the Uniondale courtroom
this Wednesday and Thursday (May 17-18) for a new hearing before Judge
Platt. In the interim, he is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention
Center (Brooklyn) where he has been held for several weeks. As long as
he remains in prison, he will be unable to testify in the Lockerbie
trial.
This Friday, Coleman stated that he believes the FBI is persecuting him
for disputing the official version of the Pan Am 103 bombing. He
continues to maintain that his 1997 testimony is true, and that the
Kentucky charges were fabricated to keep him from testifying in the
Netherlands.
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Letters to Judge Platt are encouraged --
Hon. Thomas C. Platt
US District Court
Eastern District of NY
2 Uniondale Avenue
Uniondale, NY 11553
Here is a link to an article with more information and another article
that
can be sent to newspapers and radio stations.
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2701
(1)
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/newsi.hts?section=News&story_id=8212
The title of referenced article is, “Lockerbie: ‘I could have loaded
Semtex on doomed Flight 103’”
Mr. Coleman's Federal ID # is 47321-019.
For More Information --
Contact:
Rayelan Allan
831 477 1550
Doretta Wildes
860 342 1355
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