the case is over 30 years old, it s not an easy case. there is significant evidence here, documentary evidence, forensic evidence, the blast pattern, debris that was picked up, all the little bread crumbs that point to him constructing the bomb. separate and apart, divorced from his admission, circumstantial evidence showing his path from libya to malta, putting the bomb on a feeder flight that leads to the samsonite suitcase on pan am 103. and also witness testimony of individuals in malta that saw the bomb maker at the scene where the samsonite luggage was placed on to the aircraft. but like you state, the confession is also important and there are some issues, some confrontational issues, some hearsay issues, fifth amendment issues, it s not a slam dunk of a case.
feeder flight? absolutely. you can t exclude that. i m sure people are looking at it right now. that s where the intelligence on the ground comes into play. obviously, if that is the case, a plot would have had to have been hatched in some back room somewhere. talk about any radical groups that you are aware of in that area of the world, in malaysia. you have all qaeda there for certain. you have large immigrant communities. you have solify communities and, for instance, chinese muslims are in that part. they are resistance groups there that are attacking the chinese government. as we know, this knife attack a couple weeks ago. there are all sorts of possibilities. it is when you start running down those possibilities. you really do get lost without evidence. we need to find that airplane to see, if, in fact, it was blown up. i don t think we will know until the wreckage is found.