9.27.00 Bizarre, Byzantine Labyrinth Of Lies Re: Fl 103 Wow. Okay, so YOU try and figure out what the tangled web described below actually means. About the only interesting, possibly worthwhile though unsurprising item that I got out of this report is that Libya's Col. Kadafi is apparently a Mason. As the ever-questionable Kadafi seems to be willing to buy into the U.S. government's painfully threadbare fable about the Pan Am bombing, his membership in a Masonic Lodge is certainly to be expected. Countless other world "leaders" (no laughter, please) are members of this sinister and eminently subversive global "organization," which is thus VERY closely linked to the covert worldwide "government." Anyway, it's beyond the bounds of reason that the CIA is saying ANYTHING even CLOSE to the truth about what happened to Fl. 103. Take it from us. That is, the headline below almost certainly SHOULD read: "Agent ADMITS CIA blackmailed him into framing Libyans in Pan Am case." Got it. NewsHawk� Inc. ��������������� WIRE:09/27/2000 14:43:00 ET Agent denies CIA blackmailed him into framing Libyans in Pan Am case CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands (AP) _ A former Libyan double agent denied on Wednesday that the CIA blackmailed him into framing two former colleagues on trial for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The former spy, a witness in the Lockerbie trial identified by the pseudonym Abdul Majid Giaka, kept his composure as his credibility was assailed all day by lawyers defending Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. Al-Megrahi and Fhimah are charged with sending a suitcase bomb on a flight from the Mediterranean island of Malta on Dec. 21, 1988. The bomb exploded on the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. Giaka, a former CIA mole in the Libyan secret service, was hidden from public view as he addressed the court. "Mr. Giaka, you are a liar, aren"t you? You tell big lies and you tell small lies, but you lie, do you not?" said Richard Keen, counsel for Fhimah. "I did not lie," Giaka insisted time and again. "I did not lie about anything." On Tuesday, Giaka testified that the defendants stored explosives at Malta"s Luqa airport as late as October 1988. In late December 1988, he said he saw them at the airport going unnoticed through customs with a brown Samsonite bag that matched the suitcase bomb. Malta airport officials have confirmed the defendants arrived on the eve of the explosion. But Bill Taylor, a Scottish lawyer for al-Megrahi, noted "a deafening silence" about the suitcase in reports filed by CIA debriefers who were interviewing Giaka monthly. The silence continued until a July 13, 1991, meeting with CIA operatives, who recorded that Giaka feared for his life if he returned to Malta or Libya. Giaka, who now lives under witness protection in the United States, was going to meet Justice Department officials the next day who were looking for "anything that is going to be of use as a witness," Taylor said, quoting the report. According to the lawyer, the CIA delivered an ultimatum: "Come up with something and your future is rosy. Come up with nothing and not a penny." "Lo and behold, the deafening silence ends the very next day when you come up with a brown Samsonite suitcase and this rubbish about customs," Taylor said. "The very next day is the first mention by you, Giaka, of these matters." "They did not try to buy me off," Giaka insisted. "I did this with a lot of courage." In a bizarre test of wills, Fhimah"s attorney clashed with the witness over his statements to a U.S. grand jury in October 1991. According to Keen, the double agent alleged that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was involved with former Maltese president Guido de Marco in a Masonic conspiracy "over a particular matter." "How did you discover that Col. Gadhafi is a Mason?" Keen asked, repeating the question six times, each time the witness refusing to reveal his source. At first, Giaka said the source, who is still in Libya, would be in danger. Then, after judges ruled that Giaka was under no obligation to reveal the name, Giaka said he could not remember making the allegation. Keen cited numerous inconsistencies, including Giaka"s denial of a CIA report that recorded him saying he was a "distant relative" of Libya"s last king, who was deposed by Gadhafi in 1969. The defendants have pleaded innocent to the bombing, claiming Palestinian terrorist groups were responsible. Gadhafi surrendered the suspects for trial in 1999 and the proceedings began May 3 at a special Scottish courthouse in the Netherlands. 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