Blood and Money

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In Libya and Iraq, Washington set out to teach terrorists a lesson. It should have learned
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 6:38 p.m. ET March  04, 2004

March 4 - Susan Cohen has grieved for more than 15 years, ever since her only child, Theodora, a college student on a school trip, was blown up aboard Pan Am 103. Susan and her husband, Dan Cohen, won’t let the subject drop. And they shouldn’t. Before September 11, 2001, no terrorist incident had ever killed more American civilians: 189 of the 270 people slaughtered on Dec. 21, 1988. It is an atrocity from which a great deal about terrorism has been learned, and mislearned, and unlearned—and now lost amid the cynical realities of oil and politics, blood and terror.


Yes, I wrote last week’s column about the same subject. But there is so much more to say, and Susan and Dan, who sent me an e-mail about the case after they saw the column, say it as well as anyone I know. Both of them are writers, and they published a book four years ago, “Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, & a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice,” hoping they could keep the case alive in the public eye. Now, says Susan,  “the Bush administration doesn’t give a damn.”

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