Victims’ Families Lobby Against Libya

Holding pictures of their dead children, American families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, said they, not Libya’s leaders, were the real victims. They spoke in favor of keeping sanctions on Libya before filing into the U.N. Security Council to hear a debate organized by Libya and its Arab and African backers in an effort to get U.N. embargoes lifted. Sanctions were imposed in 1992 because of Libya’s refusal to extradite two suspects indicted for the bombing by Scotland and the U.S.