Libya welcomes a hero Aug 28, 2009
Immediately following the bombing, there was suspicion that the Iranians or Syrians had commissioned the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) to conduct the bombing. This belief was based on the fact that German authorities had taken down a large PFLP-GC cell in Frankfurt in October 1988 and that one member of the cell had in his possession an IED concealed inside a Toshiba radio ... Indeed, even today, there are still some people who believe that the PFLP-GC... (Asia Times Online)
TRUDY RUBIN: How the Brits got 'compassion' Aug 28, 2009
Cannistraro told me the evidence at first implicated a Damascus-based Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command (PFLP-GC), which was working on behalf of Iran ... But this operation was foiled in October 1988 by German intelligence, which broke up a PFLP-GC cell in Frankfurt ... Cannistraro believes the PFLP-GC handed off the operation to the Libyans. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
'A convenient scapegoat?' Aug 22, 2009
Early suspicion fell on Ahmed Jibril, leader of Palestinian terror group the PFLP-GC, who intelligence sources suggested may have been working for Iran. Dick Marquise believes there was no evidence to implicate Ahmed Jibril. (BBC News -- UK)
Newsweek: How we nabbed Al-Megrahi Aug 21, 2009
Iran, through its ally Syria, supported a par-ticularly bloodthirsty terror group known by its initials, PFLP-GC (the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineGeneral Command), which was known to be building bombs with barometric triggers, the kind you would use to blow up an airplane. West German police had rounded up a PFLP-GC cell just a few months earlier and seized several of the devices, which were hidden, like the one that blew up Pan Am 103, in Toshiba boomboxes. (MSNBC -- International)
