Lockerbie families split on request for the new investigation - the guardian

Moussa Koussa: In their open letter to other Lockerbie families Cumnock and Hudson's Koussa said treatment after his conversion evidence for a U.S. cover up was. Photo: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing are Libya's links on demands for a full investigation to the attack, divided, guardian has learned, how exposed that Scottish police had met the Libyan defector and former Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa.

A role in securing a controversial apology and promise of compensation by Libyan rebels for Lockerbie and Libya's link to IRA bombings played two U.S. relatives of the victims of the bombing, Paul Hudson and Victoria Cumnock.

She wrote to all the Lockerbie related on Wednesday she asked to support a "vocal and consistent" demand for a full investigation by us prosecutors in Libya's role in the attack after the withdrawal of Koussa late last week.

Koussa met voluntarily Scottish prosecutors and Dumfries and Galloway detectives at a secret location Thursday to answer their questions about his level of knowledge about the Lockerbie bombing. The Crown Office refused to disclose what was said "to preserve the integrity of the investigation".

But Cumnock and Hudson, for a new group with the name of the Gaddafi terror victims initiative, the United States and UK tried Governments to cover up, Libya's role in the attacks of faulty arrest Koussa and that him access to its overseas wealth.

Cumnock and Hudson claim treat Koussa to half-heartedly, despite warnings from intelligence sources, that it is unlikely that useful information about the Lockerbie attack on Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 passengers, crew and people on the ground in December 1988.

"We have more than terrorism waited 20 years for Justice, accountability and the truth of the terrible facts of the Gaddafi regime," she said. "No Government should be truth, justice and accountability for the diplomatic convenience and oil revenues can suppress."

Jim Swire, a prominent Lockerbie campaigner whose Tochter flora has killed in the attack has written in Hudson and Cumnock, and his letter in other Lockerbie families, attacking their campaign as "unwise" and "deeply insecure foundations" copies.

Swire said the Gaddafi terror victims initiative was probably because it was more difficult during a war, to find out the truth.

Information or claims dissenters had to with great suspicion, because their motives difficult verify obscure and the quality of their information would. The rebels in Benghazi now say their excuse illegal and under pressure from the Government of the United Kingdom were made.

Swire's letter, which has been leaked to the guardian, said: "the words of the defector to Benghazi or Moussa Koussa, come, with the greatest care should, be considered to take account of their present situation." "War generates fog and truth is then more difficult to get."

In their open letter to other Lockerbie families Cumnock and Hudson's Koussa said treatment after his conversion clear evidence for U.S. was complicity in a cover-up to protect U.S. business interests in Libya. This complicity began 20 years ago when the United States enable Scottish prosecutors agreed to check the Lockerbie investigation, rather than the much tougher US legal system use.

"This is a scandal and a clear case of political expediency over justice." Both the United States and UK are clearly trying to obstruct justice and to legitimate law enforcement - along with all others - under the carpet sweep obligations. We can only sit in our hands as farmers and allow this to happen. We must hear our Government from us that this will we tolerate no longer leave, "she said."

Hudson and Cumnock's initiative is now closely linked to another initiative to compensate for the British relatives of victims of IRA atrocities with Libyan Semtex, which is headed by a British lawyer Jason McCue, meeting rebel leaders in Benghazi was carried out.

A document signed the Libyan rebels in the town of Libya's role in the IRA attacks and Lockerbie apologize and promised 10 million each $ ($ 6) compensation of IRA victims families, after a meeting with McCue.

The rebels later claimed they were from the British Government to sign the document converted and misunderstood, which contain it. Essam Gheriani, a spokesman for the revolutionary Governing Council, said that the Chairman of Mustafa Abdul Jalil, he felt comply with international recognition to win and you gain access to Libyan money it had abroad.

"The whole world knows that the Libyan people responsible for Gaddafi's actions over 40 years." "An apology is not justified, for the simple reason that the Libyan people of these actions was not involved in", said Gheriani.

Swire warned that that made extremely difficult Libyan civil war and the collapse of the regime of Gaddafi's unconfirmed information support, which came from dissidents or dissenters. He said, the only man sentenced the considerable doubts about the guilt the attack, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and allegations that us and UK intelligence fake prove agencies against him, made it very difficult to find out the truth about Lockerbie.

"War, generated as Libya now, fog not clarity;" now to try do not have time to add an additional layer of security the existing structure, in the hope to explain what happened, its foundations are reducing anyway soon, click, ", he said the other related."

"The accusations of those in Bengazi, or of the same by Moussa Koussa are particularly difficult to assess laced at this time, as she will be with strong, but partially hidden motivations."

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Florida Pastor has divided families, ex-church members say - Washington Post

GAINESVILLE, Florida - long before the Rev. Terry Jones threatened a Qur'an, say former parishioners to burn, he sat on a church which he as a personal fief, to the introduction of a strict orthodoxy, which apart a Gainesville family treated according to the other crack.

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Phil Sandlin / AP - former parishioners say the Rev. Terry Jones, in September, the here shown church members forced to cut off contact with family members, who left the Church.

Community members in the Dove world outreach center, in number 30 or so fall into are, are required, vows puts loyalty to Jones - a promise, the restrictions on their diet, their ability to hold jobs outside the Church, and their personal relationships.

Chris Nassoiy, 25, and for most of the members the last constraint by far is painful. He has seen his parents only once as they gathered the Church in 2009 links, when he his belongings from his home.

"I had to tell them that we can communicate until they apologize until they accept the Gospel, not," he said, to crack his voice. "It was a bit wrenching."

For his mother, Sally Nassoiy, began what has developed anger on Jones and other church officials to heartbreak.

"they take young people are willing to devote himself to the word of God, and they exploit," she said. "It is a cult." "That is that which I can think of to describe it the only Word."

Jones, 59, denied that the Church is a cult or that he abused his authority leader in his role as a dove.

"I am the central figure," he said. "This is certainly true." But I think the Church is according to me, there are "adding that he hopes he is 29-year-old son, Luke, on one day."

Jones said that he does not require that community relations with their families, although it still may be not difficult connections with those who are their life of the Church.

He said those who have left Dove, because "only enough was not strong beliefs."

Jones knows personally as his strict edicts and unconventional leadership can divide families. Two of his daughters have left the Church disgusted.

"I do not support it, and I don't want to have nothing to do with him," said Emma Jones on Facebook.

Her father said their decision to go from the Church "was the biggest betrayal."

For most of the young community members, the membership requires participation of Jones's three years of "Academy," the discipline and compliance with the Bible preaches. It requires work, much of it also hours unpaid to the Dove world outreach center used furniture business, which is performed by the same building as the Church.

Jones defended who say arrangement, that members of the Academy are available to food and housing to them of their work to compensate.

The young community members living in church owned housing in one of the Gainesville's roughest neighborhoods.

Willie Irving, lives in the neighborhood, used to attend services in the Centre. He held in 2009, he said, as he realized the Church "tried, believe a people's lives make."

But some of those who have been brutal from the Church describe you, as the process in this closely connected community, can be difficult be deep in the roots.

"My grandparents were members of the Dove Foundation." "You their wedding rings sold to buy the property", said Shane butcher, 28.

After Jones 2001 took over the Church, began things to change. Butcher he reminds 60 hours per week scouring thrift stores for furniture, continue to sell on eBay. His parents was exacerbated by what Jones of the Church Act, the in 2005 links.

"It was full of the Holy Spirit," said his mother, Patty butcher, "and it was a laughing stock."

But even after leave, Shane butcher remained his parents separated in the church relations with his family. "I felt like, where God wanted to be me," he said.

His family asked if they had lost him forever. "It was painful to see my son under one's control," said his mother, a former Church Secretary.

It took two years to confront the power of Jones's wife Sylvia Shane work. He said that "Everything we do you make money", her foot from the Church.

For days, his friends and roommates fact, to butcher, what he had done his parents: they cut him off.

The insular world, created by Jones to his followers in Gainesville reminiscent of its previous enterprise, the Christian community of Cologne.

During the three decades as a missionary there he recruited nearly 1,000 churchgoers, according to Pro, a Christian magazine in Germany, which interviewed several former members for an article published in September. In Cologne of the article said, Jones no longer was the Gospel as much as "create his own empire." Dissemination

Many Gainesville community members began leaving, Dove after Jones launched his much publicized crusade against Islam in the life. He held a mock report on activities of the Qur'an March 20 for "Crimes against humanity." Video footage of the Holy Book is soaked in kerosene and set on fire in a portable fireplace triggered three days of protests in Afghanistan, where at least 20 died and injured dozens.

Church services Sunday - the first since the Afghan protests - moved only 14 people.

A pigeon Academy had some churchgoers name uniform embroidered with the Church. You belted lyrics, alternately the biblical and the patriotic, with preteen boys on the drums and guitar. Out there was a member on the security detail.

When he the pulpit, compared to Jones on Martin Luther King Jr., and then click Joshua leads his followers over the River Jordan.

Burning of the Quran was necessary, he said even if it caused a dozen deaths, because it was to defend a part of the Gospel. It was not easy, and it is something that the Church should be proud, he said.

He said "If they crossed the Jordan, they their lives on the line include,".

"There is only a way me, stop", Jones said his followers, "and that is to kill me."

sieffk@WashPost.com

Staff writer Annie Gowen, and Michelle awesome stone and research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.

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