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I forgive him, says Lockerbie relative after meeting Colonel Gaddafi

The sister of an American soldier who was killed in the Lockerbie bombing said that she had met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during his visit to New York to offer him forgiveness.

Lisa Gibson, 39, and another Lockerbie family met the Libyan leader after his rambling speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

“I did not know what to expect. He was quite friendly to us, quite cordial. He welcomed us,” Ms Gibson, a lawyer, told The Times yesterday.

Ms Gibson’s brother, Kenneth, a US soldier stationed in Germany, was returning home for Christmas on Pan Am Flight 103 when it was blown up on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people in the jet and on the ground.

Read entire article at Times (UK)