http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08617216.htmWASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Eager to tout improved relations with Libya for abandoning its weapons programs, the White House omitted the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing from the list of terrorist attacks cited on Thursday by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, angering victims' families.
Dan Cohen of New Jersey, whose 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, died in the bombing, said Rice's omission -- in testimony before the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks -- made him feel "sick."
"This was the largest terrorist attack against American citizens prior to 9/11 and they're pretending it didn't happen," Cohen. "It's bad enough when you lose a child and then to have this whole thing swept away," he said.
Rice omitted Lockerbie from a chronology of major acts acts of terrorism against Americans over the last two decades.
Stephanie Bernstein of Maryland, whose husband Michael died at the age of 36, said it was "disgusting (and) despicable" that Rice made no mention of the Lockerbie bombing while praising Libya for giving up its nuclear weapons programs.
"I think the Bush administration has a lot to answer for," she said.
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