National security adviser Condoleezza Rice omitted the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, as she detailed two decades of terrorist attacks against Americans during her appearance yesterday before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults. That angered some of the victims’ relatives, who called the exclusion part of a White House effort to coddle Libya, which took formal responsibility for the bombing in a statement last August. Within hours of her appearance, Rice sent a letter to the families saying the omission “was a mistake, for which I want to apologize to you and all the families who lost relatives on that terrible day in 1988.” Full Story
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