Gaddafi's Son: Lockerbie relatives "very greedy"

It's difficult to even imagine the horror of losing a loved one to a terrorist act. To think that someone you cared for so deeply was erased from this world just so Gaddafi could made a political/religious statement.

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb planted in it's cargo hold, killing 270 people. The Libyan government, led by Muammar Gaddafi, was held responsible. Although Libya never formally admitted guilt, in a letter to the UN it "accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials".

Now Muammar's son Saif, shows no remorse, just contempt.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi said the Lockerbie families had traded with "the blood of their sons and daughters" during negotiations over pay-outs for the deaths of loved ones.

Mr al-Gaddafi, who is seen by many as likely to succeed his father, also told BBC2's The Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie that the Libyan government took responsibility for Britain's worst terrorist attack only to get international sanctions lifted.

"You have to ask the families of the victims," he said. "The negotiation with them, it was very terrible and very materialistic and was very greedy. They were asking for more money and more money and more money.

"I think they were very greedy and I think they were trading with the blood of their sons and daughters."

Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the atrocity, said the compensation received by relatives could never make up for the loss of loved ones.

In the same programme, the film-makers said police failed to pass on information that could have affected the outcome of the Lockerbie trial. The information could have affected the credibility of key evidence but was not passed to the defence, the documentary claimed.

Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is serving a life sentence for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, which killed 270 people.

In a letter published in the Herald in Glasgow, Dr Swire wrote: "I just wish that the needs of the relatives, namely a thirst for the truth and for justice, would be attended to, rather than an alleged hunger for money. So far as many relatives I know would say, we would gladly repay any 'compensation' money if we could just have our loved ones back.

"Financial 'compensation' must remain in its inverted commas. Money cannot buy our families back."

I think it's safe to say that Saif and his terrorist Father won't miss the money as much as the families of the Lockerbie hijacking will miss thier loved ones.

Perhaps Saif can build a memorial to his lost funds like this one.

Memorial at Dryfesdale Cemetery near Lockerbie.

Or this one.

Memorial at Syracuse University. Syracuse University holds a memorial week every year called "Remembrance Week" to commemorate its 35 lost students.

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