Article by Paul Foot, in Private Eye, inquiry in to the Lockerbie disaster
Article by Paul Foot, published in Private Eye, on the Camp Ziest, inquiry in to the Lockerbie disaster.
Gaddafi on Malta, Lockerbie
Article in The Malta Independent on a speech by Gaddafi after the sentencing of the Lockerbie tribunal where Gaddafi mentions Malta and Maltese persons throughout the speech.
Letter from Daniel Aquilina to Padraig Coyle
Letter from Daniel Aquilina to Padraig Coyle, expressing disappointment that Padriag had disregarded the instructions that Daniel had given regarding content.
Apology from Edmund Curran, Belfast Telegraph
Apology from Edmund Curran, Belfast Telegraph, the fact that the treatment of the story caused annoyance displayed a lack of sensitivity and for that I apologise
Article published in Saturday Extra
THE FATHER of an Ulsterman who mysteriously disappeared in Tunisia exactly five years ago, claims his son may still be ALIVE.
Former SDLP Belfast city councilor Cormac Boomer fears his son, Dessie. who was reportedly on a plane that vanished onto thin air, may have been caught up in a terrorist incident. He told the Extra last night that the information he had suggested his son could still be alive….somewhere. Its the latest twist in a saga that has led to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history. Dessie Boomer has never been seen since disappearing with five fellow travellers in December 1995.
Article by Don Mullan, Ireland On Sunday
DESMOND BOOMER has a wife and five children who live in Co. Down. He worked in the Libyan oil fields as an engineer for a company based in Britain. Because of international sanctions imposed against Libya by the UN in 1992 after the Lockerbie bombing, foreign workers were forced to fly to a neighbouring country and travel onwards to Libya by road. For Boomer and other workers, the preferred route was an international connection to Malta and a private flight from the island to Djerba Airport in Tunisia. Boomer was en route home to Belfast for his Christmas holidays when he disappeared. There are three possibilities concerning the disappearance. The first and one that cannot be easily dismissed is that Desmond Boomer and his fellow passengers were in the wrong place at the wrong time when Islamic fundamentalists arrived to exact revenge on their pilot, Carmel Bartolo, a marked man. Bartolo was the owner of a small private airline called Excelair. On November 5, 1995 precisely one month before Boomers mysterious disappearance a local Maltese newspaper Kull Hadd, in an act of gross journalistic