The Nation : Victims’ Kin Form ‘103’ Support Group

Seventy-five to 100 relatives of people killed when a bomb exploded aboard an airliner attended a meeting in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., to form the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 committee. “We’ve come to assist each other in our grief,” said Paul Hudson, an attorney and former counsel to the New York State Crime Victims Compensation Board who started the network. Hudson’s daughter, Melina, was aboard when a terrorist’s bomb on the plane blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Dec. 21, killing all 259 aboard and 11 Lockerbie residents. Besides giving support to grieving relatives, the committee will push for a congressional probe of the bombing and for stronger airport security, organizers said.