Rice Apologizes For Failure of Mentioning Pan Am Flight 103

[doxieone]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA2C4WITSD.html

Rice Apologizes for Failing to Mention Pan Am Flight 103 in Testimony
The Associated Press
Published: Apr 8, 2004






WASHINGTON (AP) - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice apologized Thursday for not including the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in a list of terrorist incidents she cited to the federal panel investigating the 2001 attacks.
"As you know from your painful personal experience, this was the most deadly terrorist action prior to Al-Qaida's attack of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center," Rice wrote in a letter to families of Pam Am 103 victims. "As we put my remarks for the 9/11 Commission together, we listed the major attacks committed by Al-Qaida or other terrorist groups such as Hizballah. We did not include attacks that were the work of a government, such as the Libyan government's bombing of Pan Am 103. This was a mistake."

Rice then apologized, offering "my deepest sympathy" for the families' losses

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[BattyDem]

2. She apologized to ...

the families of Pam Am 103 victims for not mentioning the incident in her testimony ... but she didn't apologize to the families of the 9/11 victims????

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3. EXCELLENT POINT!!!!!

Good call.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Am sorry I forgot to say I'm Sorry

...was what I first imagined the story to be. After reading it am amazed that she would get print about saying she was sorry to have not apologized publically to the families of Pan Am 103 when she didn't apologize to the families of Sept. 11 today. Certainly Lockerbie was a huge tragedy, but Rice had the opportunity to show some compassion and a glimmer of accountability to those WTC families present today.
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