{"id":43010,"date":"2014-03-11T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_iran_ordered_lockerbie_bombing_claims_ex-iranian_intelligence_o\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:16:00","slug":"independent_iran_ordered_lockerbie_bombing_claims_ex-iranian_intelligence_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43010","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) \u201d\u02dcIran ordered Lockerbie bombing\u2019, claims ex-Iranian intelligence officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran ordered the Lockerbie bombing in revenge for the accidental shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet by a US navy ship, according to a former Iranian intelligence officer who defected to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>An al-Jazeera documentary, Lockerbie: What Really Happened?, claims the attack was carried out on Tehran\u2019s behalf by the Syrian-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.<\/p>\n<p>It also says that the bomb was planted on Pan Am flight 103 at Heathrow Airport, not at Malta as suggested during the trial that convicted Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/iran-ordered-lockerbie-bombing-claims-exintelligence-officer-9182907.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran ordered the Lockerbie bombing in revenge for the accidental shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet by a US navy ship, according to a former Iranian intelligence officer who defected to Germany. An al-Jazeera documentary, Lockerbie: What Really Happened?,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43010\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,564,203,148,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-terrorism","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}