European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 23, 1993 plight 103 the stars and stripes Page 11clinton promises to pursue bombers Arlington a. Up president Clinton broke ground tuesday for a memorial to the 270 victims of the pan am flight ,103 bombing vowing that the United states a will never Stop pursuing Justice against those who caused  Clinton stood under cold Clear skies at Arlington National cemetery just outside Washington to pay tribute to those who died in the crash dec. 21,1988. The president was joined by dozens of friends and family for the somber outdoor ceremony at which Only a few people wept. He thrust a shovel into the dirt to break ground for the memorial. It will be a traditional scottish burial Cairn made with 270 red stones from a Quarry outside Lockerbie Scotland where the plane went Down. Quot i say to you today that our nation will never Sto pursuing Justice against those who caused it a he Sai re for the attack on pan am 103 was an attack not Only on the individuals from 21 nations who were aboard the aircraft it was an attack on  two libyans identified As intelligence agents Abdel Basset All Al Mezrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fahimah Maghrabi have been indicted in the terrorist attack. A that b Why we remain determined to see that those who murdered those who were aboard pan am 103 Are brought to Justice Why we have demanded the surrender of the two libyans indicted for this vicious offence Why we have pushed for and secured tougher Intima tonal sanctions against Libya and Why we will not rest until the Case b closed a he said. Two key witnesses Are challenging the official British and . View that Libya alone was behind the 1988 bombing. Scottish police have refused to comment on the new evidence saying the Case was still open. After the Brief ceremony Clinton Shook hands and spoke with Many of those present. He gave his shovel to 6-Ycar-bid Nicholas Bright of Brookline mass., whose father was killed in the crash. \ 1 1 a was we break ground let us vow again that we will do All we can to protect our people a Clinton said. A was each Stone is set m this Cairn May your wounds set and heal As  Nicholas said he wanted to meet the president because Clinton also grew up without a father. A the president and i had something in common. So 1 really wanted to come to see what he was like a he said. The president also praised the efforts of Jane Schultz of Ridgefield n.j., the Mother of one of the victims and a driving Force behind the memorial. Schultz said the victims Quot will be forever memorialized in this hallowed  a the world Community must never be allowed to forget a she added. Tie victims were 259 passengers and Crew and 11 people on the ground. Meanwhile in London a candlelight memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey on tuesday. At the London service attended by More than 100 grieving relatives candles were lighted for each of the 270 victims. Their names were recited aloud after the congregation observed a moment of silence in memory of the dead. A Why contrary to All the Normal British procedures has a full Independent inquiry been consistently re-fuscd7�?� the Rev. John mosey who led the service asked those assembled in the Abbey. In t Lone cd president Clinton talks with Nicholas Bright 6, during ceremonies at Arlington National cemetery on tuesday. In 88 London a a former Cia investigator says he was furious when president Bush exonerated Syria in the deadly 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103. A i was outraged because i did no to think there was anything. That excluded a syrian role a Vincent Cannistraro said. A it seemed to me a Rush of  Cannistraro made his remarks in a British broadcasting corp. Radio program silence Over Lockerbie that aired tuesday the fifth anniversary of the night flight 103 exploded Over the scottish town. The bombing killed 270 people a All 259 people aboard the new York bound plane and 11 people on the ground. The anniversary also was marked by president Clinton who broke ground for a memorial to the victims at Arlington National cemetery in Virginia and by a mass at Lockerbie a holy Trinity roman Catholic Church. The bbl program investigated charges that the United states and Britain blamed the bombing on Libya alone to divert suspicion from two other culprits Syria and Iran. William h. Webster former director of the Fri and the Cia contended that if Bush had not said that he believed Syria was innocent a it would have poisoned the fragile cooperative relationship with respect to peacemaking in the Middle  Britain also exonerated Iran. Shortly afterwards a briton and an american were released after being held hostage in Lebanon by a pro iranian group. In 1991, when indictments were issued against two libyan intelligence agents who arc accused of smuggling the bomb on Board flight 103, Bush declared a the syrians took a bum rap  however Western intelligence agencies believe that Iran commissioned a syrian based terrorist group Ahmed i Brill a popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command to sabotage a . Plane after the United states accidentally shot Down an iranian Airliner in july 1988. Libya got involved because Jibril dropped the Mission after police Dis friends and relatives of victims of he bombing of pan am flight 103 participate in a candlelight service at St. Georges episcopal Church in new York City on tuesday the fifth anniversary of he disaster. Erupted his groups cells in Germany said l. Paul Bremer who was the state departments top counter terrorism official in the Bush administration Quot Jibril went to the libyans and said a i am in breach of a contract i have with the iranians. Quot they re going to pay me a big piece of Money to attack an american plane. I can to do that now and you libyans help me a a Bremer told the bbl. Bremer said All three countries were culpable Quot Iran because it originally set up the idea of the revenge Libya because it seems to have conducted the attacks it self and the syrians because they know perfectly Well everything that Ahmed Jibril  the United nations has enacted sanctions against Libya to pressure its Leader Moa mar Qadhafi into extraditing the two suspects for trial in Scotland or America. Bush and his Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii refused to be interviewed for the program bbl reporter Gerry Norlham said. Dan Cohen a Leader of the american relatives of the victims of flight 103, said that the Clinton administration had also done Little and that he Felt let Down. He described american policy As pursuing Libya because a Libya is easy to push. A Iran is bigger and Syria is bigger. So just sort of let it go and you know eventually it will All go  As heavy Snow fell in Lockerbie the Rev. Gerry Magee said at the evening mass that a out of this evil Good has  Quot among those who suffer much Healing has taken place. A a people of All religions have grown