Contents
Introduction
Discounting the
tragic usurpation of Palestine, the Arab-Islamic Nation has
probably never, in its modern history, witnessed a political
problem characterized by such confusion and contradicting stands
and facts as the "Lockerbie" incident. The outlaws became
legislators, judges, and prosecutors, and the righteous, the
defenders of human justice and law, became the accused, the
terrorists, and the outlaws.
The aggravating
aspect in this case is that the forces of international arrogance
and terrorism succeeded in escalating the problem to the United
Nations Security Council with such ease that both observers and
politicians were astounded.
It was
immediately clear that the United Nations was in danger of sliding
into the fate of the earlier League of Nations whose facade
crumbled when it was revealed as nothing more than a front for a
Western colonial project.
The collapse of the world
order which governed the balance of international political life
since the end of World War lI left in its wake great confusion, and
tempted the United States and its allies to revive the old colonial
order, clothing it in new vestments so that they could raise it as
the "New World Order".
The blatant obstinacy
manifested by the American and British political circles in their
stand against the Jamahiriya with regards to the Lockerbie incident
thus revealed a new figure in world politics: that of an overseer
of the New World Order.
This overseer is determined
to oppress peoples, humiliate states, and doom Third World
countries to dependence on the West, and to America and Britain in
particular.
This arrogant attitude was
the reason for the conceptual, political, popular, spontaneous,
forceful, and determined solidarity stands of the Arab Islamic
Nation with the people of the Jamahiriya.
The Ummah realized that the
problem went well beyond a penal dispute between America and the
Jamahiriya, but was rather a stage in a new manipulative scheme and
a desire to humiliate whoever would dare say "no" to the coercive
policies that America wishes to impose on the world and on our Arab
Islamic homeland in particular.
This essay aims to provide an
overview of the "Lockerbie Incident", outlining the
historical background of American-Libyan relations, a comprehension
of which is essential in understanding the sequence of events and
setting this incident in its proper perspective.
We will identify the overt
and covert dimensions of the new campaign against Libya, and
finally, shed light on the concept of "international
terrorism."
