Lockerbie Widow Calls For Gadhafi To Stand Trial

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March 08, 2011

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Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, top left, is accompanied by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 after Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. (AP)

Libya’s ex-justice minister Mustafa Abdel Jalil says he has “proof” that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The man convicted of the bombing was released from prison for health reasons in 2009 and received a hero’s welcome back home in Libya, but victims’ families have long believed Gadhafi ordered the attack.

We speak with Rabbi Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband was on Pan Am Flight 103.

This segment aired on March 8, 2011.

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