Discussions
have been made as to the diary of Lameen Khalifa Fhima, that FBI found
at the premises of Fhima´s travel company in Malta.
Below is a copy of Fhima´s diary entry, dated december 1988.
The Crown alleges that this entry shows how Fhima reminded himself of getting
Air Malta tags on the same day as Abdelbaset Megrahi arrived from Zurich.
In the US indictment No. 91-0645, page 11, the Americans wrote "On or about December 15, 1988, Lamen Fhima made the following entries in his diary: "Abdelbaset is coming from Zurich with Salvu....and "take taggs (sic) from Air Malta." On or about December 15, 1988, Lamen Fhima made an additional entry in the "Notes" section of his diary: "bring the tags from the airport (Abdelbaset Abdul Salam".
But as it turned out, the American prosecution took the entries out from their original context!
What do the diary entries really say ? This is the Arabic translation.
Text no. 1: 8. 30 in the morning with the owner
of the shop Valetta - OK
Text no. 2: Abdelbaset coming from Zurich
Text no. 3: With Salvu (or Salva)
1) Postbox
2) Half of aluminium price
3) Priority after 4 years (sellor rent)
Text no. 4: X (cross) take TAGGS
from Air Malta - OK
Nothing at all in this entry has anything to do with Pan Am 103, as alleged by the prosecution. The tags from Air Malta were taken by Fhima in order to provide the shopowner in Valetta with some specimen for a production of new tags. Fhima planned to print his own tags for the travel company. It happened that on this day Megrahi was arriving, and Fhima made a note about it, in order to know what flight Megrahi was arriving on. Later Fhima reminded himself to check on a business friend, named Salvu.
The FBI once hinted (in a book by the authors Emerson and Duffy) that the entry read "Abdelbaset is coming from Zurich with Safi". Safi was the codename for Marwan Khreesat, the bomb maker from "Autumn Leaves", who had been arrested by German police two months before, was suddenly released and disappeared.
The arrival of Megrahi in the company of the notoriuos terrorist bombmaker Khreesat was a lie.The question is just: why did the US indictment distort this fact on purpose ?
When are we going to be told the TRUTH about things from the VERY BEGINNING ???