Attention turns back to the Middle East and the Lockerbie Bombing in 1988 . Curtis says that immediately after the bombing , journalists and investigators blamed Syria for carrying out the attack on behalf of Iran in revenge for the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the United States Navy . It was generally accepted as true until US security agencies announced that Libya was behind the attack . Some journalists and politicians believed that the West had made the volte-face to appease Syria 's leader , who the US and the United Kingdom required as an ally in the coming Gulf War
Iran Air Flight 655
Iran Air Flight 655
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