Stephanie Bernstein

Lockerbie widow speaks against Gaddafi

Stephanie Bernstein, a rabbi in Bethesda, Maryland, has been one of the most outspoken victims of the Lockerbie bombing.

Her husband Michael was among the 259 killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the Scottish town in 1988.

As she welcomes me into her home she talks about her 14 years of marriage to Mr Bernstein, an American attorney whose job was to find and deport Nazis who entered the US illegally after World War II.

She has followed the Libyan uprising closely. Just hours ago, the Libyan justice minister, who resigned in protest against Muammar Gaddafi's attacks on his own population, said he had proof that the Libyan leader was the one who ordered the Lockerbie attack.

She says "that is exactly what we have been saying for years. It is no surprise; Libya is a police state, nothing happens there without Gaddafi's approval."