-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/1/_/163550/_/972455126/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> UNUSUAL DEVELOPMENTS WITH LES & LOCKERBIE Les Coleman's Column - Inside/Out! http://www.rumormillnews.com UNUSUAL DEVELOPMENTS WITH LES COLEMAN & THE LOCKERBIE TRIAL IN THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 103 Today's Column was written by Doretta Wildes with comments inserted by RMNews Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2000, 12:48 a.m. Hi All: This is a significant development for Les, which I have no doubt is related to the most recent developments in the Lockerbie trial. Today, Les was informed that he is being transferred to a minimum security camp in Manchester, Kentucky, about 50 miles away from Lexington. The "camp" is really a campus without fences. As it has been described to Les, he will be afforded the maximum freedom allowed a federal inmate. Guards gave him the news today with a fresh attitude. Les was told where he was going and with an unusual degree of openness. "They were very pleasant," he said. The usual m.o. is to awaken him in the middle of the night and order him to pack. A curious exchange: one of the correctional officers told Les that he must be very pleased with recent developments. "I hear you're going to be on TV," he said. When Les questioned him, the man laughed pleasantly and said, "Oh come on, you must know what I'm talking about." Les has NOT been contacted by attorneys for the defense of the accused Libyans; nor by the prosecutors. He is not aware of any impending media appearances. Actually, sudden interest in his case by the media would be immensely ironic, if not very funny. Nevertheless, Les is very happy to be leaving MDC, bound for Kentucky. He's still using a walker, so he won't be black-boxed or tightly shackled in transit. Les will be transferred tomorrow (October 25) to Oklahoma City's holding facility (as usual), then on to Manchester. He was told that he may not be there for the duration of his sentence, as Kentucky apparently now has jurisdiction over that. (This is news. What could it mean?) The Warden at MDC has received letters from readers of INSIDE/OUT - and today Les signed a release so that he can respond to me and anyone else who requested information. Les will contact me when he arrives in OK City tomorrow. I'll keep you posted. If you can visit Les in Manchester, the camp is in Daniel Boone National Forest on Route 8 (Fox Hollow Road). Here is the mailing address: Les Coleman, I.D. #47321-019 FCI Manchester Camp P.O. Box 3000 Manchester, KY 40962 Fyi, a Reuters article that Raye sent me is copied below. I'm sure the "mysterious" information alluded to in the article has bearing on Les's new status. As someone has said before, if the big boys have to 'fess up, they'll do so in such a way as to make themselves look like heroes. Reuters | AP | AP U.S. | ABCNews | Photos Tuesday October 24 5:30 AM ET New Evidence May Change Lockerbie Trial--Defense By Karen Iley CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands (Reuters) - Judges adjourned the Lockerbie bombing trial for a week on Tuesday to allow the defense to review mysterious evidence that could have a major impact on the case. ``It is apparent that the information contained, if true, will have the greatest conceivable effect on this trial and in particular on the special defense,'' defense counsel William Taylor said. Chief prosecutor Lord Advocate Colin Boyd told the court two weeks ago that information received from a foreign government was of considerable relevance to the defense's counter-theory that Palestinian groups could have been behind the bombing. (RMNews: Ask yourself what country would have the most to gain by releasing information that is critical of the Palestinians? Who needs to turn the media and the public against the Palestinians? The Israeli Mossad has had the information on Lockerbie in their files since the bombing happened. They did not bring it forward because the United States did not want Iran connected with the bombing on Pan Am 103. Iran paid the Palestinians to bring down an American airliner. Iran blames the United States Navy for shooting down and Iranian Airbus in 1988. If Iran was connected with the killing of the passengers of Pan Am 103, the United States was afraid it might have to admit that it killed the passengers on the Iranian Airbus. When Clinton decided he needed some kind of legacy, he decided that he would normalize relations with Iran. Because of this decision he could not allow the truth to come out about Iran's role in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Hence, Les Coleman was set up and allowed to languish in one prison after another, for years. Les is the first person to come forward and tell the whole story about the bombing of Pan Am 103. He told the story in his book, "The Trail of the Octopus." Immediately after it was published, Les began having legal problems. He had never had any problems before the publication of the book. Now the government tries to make him appear to be a hardened repeat offender! Maybe the situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians will at least help exonerate and finally free Les Coleman) Resume Reuters article: The prosecution, which accuses two Libyans of masterminding the 1988 explosion on Pan Am flight 103 and killing 270 people, handed over a letter and a file of documents to the defense on Monday. Taylor requested that the court adjourn until next Tuesday, but said he was ``pessimistic'' that the trial could even resume then because of the extent and importance of the new evidence. ``At the moment it is obvious to me that investigations in three separate continents and at least six separate countries will be required,'' Taylor said. Details of the new evidence remained shrouded in secrecy since lives were potentially in danger, he said. But having studied the contents of the letter and other documents received on Monday, the defense had sent a lawyer to another continent, and two Scottish solicitors were heading for a European country later on Tuesday. The prosecution waited two weeks before passing on the information to the defense while Scottish police tracked down six individuals, five who live in a European country and one in the United States. Tuesday's proceedings lasted little over 20 minutes. Presiding judge Lord Sutherland agreed to the adjournment, but said the court, also in the dark about the new evidence, would need more details if it were to agree to further postponements. ``If any further request is made for an adjournment, the court may need more information if it is to be in a position to monitor progress properly,'' he said. The prosecution accuses two Libyans, Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima and Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, of blowing up flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. The accused have denied charges that at Malta's Luqa airport they planted a suitcase bomb on a plane bound for Frankfurt by posing as employees of Libyan Arab Airlines. The bomb was allegedly transferred to the Pan Am flight bound for New York, the indictment says. The defense, which need only raise ``reasonable doubt'' in the minds of the three-judge panel to secure acquittal, suggests instead that two Palestinian radical groups were responsible for the explosion. The judges must eventually choose between three verdicts: guilty, not guilty or the rarely used not proven. ### Remember, Christmas is coming up and Les's three children are going to spend another Christmas with their father in prison. If you possibly can, please send them a present or a money order. We will post a list of things they would like for Christmas, as we did last year. Because of the generosity of Rumor Mill News Readers, these three children had packages to open on Christmas morning! Let's make sure we can do the same thing this year. We can't help every child in the world, but we can help three children who have been deprived of their father just because he tried to tell the truth. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TELFAX 831 462 3949 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com
