For families of Pan Am 103 victims, delayed trial prolongs nearly 4-decade wait for justice
MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — The monumental collection of 76 statues in Suse Lowenstein's backyard captures the moment she and other women learned their loved ones were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Each nude, life-size creation represents a mother, wife, sister or other female relative in her darkest grief -- weeping, praying, screaming, collapsing. "The grief, everything, stays the same, just like this. This is always here," the 82-year-old artist said, walking through the rust-hued monuments in the New York beach town of Montauk recently. "And so, the feelings don't go away." Lowenstein, whose son, Alex, was aboard Flight 103, is among many who have waited nearly four decades to see the culprits of the bombing — one of the deadliest terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens — face justice in a U.S. courtroom. Now, they'll have to keep waiting. A judge cited the discovery of new evidence, though she didn't say what that evidence was.
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According to an FBI affidavit, he said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi thanked the team afterward. She and other family members of victims had attended the 2000 trial in the Netherlands, which resulted in the conviction of one of Al-Marimi's alleged accomplices and the acquittal of another. "This isn't about closure," Tsairis said. "This is more about putting the period at the end of the sentence kind of thing." She said she's found solace over the years working with her husband on The Alexia, a grant program supporting documentary photographers and filmmakers at Syracuse University.
