Stephanie Bernstein

By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on February 24th, 2011
[Photo: Reuters]

As the uprising in Libya enters its eleventh day, we keep you updated on the developing situation from our headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

By Monica Villamizar in Americas on February 24th, 2011
AbdelBaset al-Megrahi was given a hero's welcome upon his return to Libya [Reuters]

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."