How the Families of the Victims of Pan Am Brought Libya to Justice. by Allan Gerson, Jerry Adler. On Sale: 10/13/ The Price of Terror. Read a Sample.
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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Price of Terror by Allan Gerson ,. The Price of Terror 3. President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight , killing people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable -- as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that t President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight , killing people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back.
Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right.
This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law -- a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself. Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families' quest for justice.
In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle -- that of accountability under the law -- was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, NEWSWEEK writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims.
Hardcover , pages. Published October 23rd by Harper first published October 16th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Price of Terror , please sign up. Lists with This Book. An uncle and two cousins were killed in , when their small plane crashed into the spear-like pines of a South Carolina forest, an event meriting a 30 second report on CNN. I like to date my fascination with plane crashes from that moment, but in reality, I've been drawn since I was a child watching poorly-cobbled-together made-for-TV movies about Florida Flight 90 Disaster on the Potomac and United A Thousand Heroes.
Since then, I've graduated to an obsession with CVR recorders the g An uncle and two cousins were killed in , when their small plane crashed into the spear-like pines of a South Carolina forest, an event meriting a 30 second report on CNN. Since then, I've graduated to an obsession with CVR recorders the greatest examples of professionalism under stress you will ever find and occasionally reading NTSB reports that are available online.
The latter are marvels of the lawyerly art of anesthetizing the ugliest events. My attraction to the subject comes from dread fear. I can't think of a worse way to die than in a plane.
It rolls every fear you have about death into one aluminum-and-steel tube: Of all the famous crashes - Swiss Air 's fire that melted its cockpit, setting the pilots ablaze; FL 90 plunging into the Potomac, its survivors dying of hypothermia on live television; Value Jet set afire by used oxygen generators meant to provide passengers life support; Egypt Air 's suicidal co-pilot; and of course, the conspiracy-ridden TWA - I think the most haunting is Pan Am Maybe it's that it went down on the darkest night of the year in Maybe it's because the crash happened to Pan Am, the airline that made flying sexy and glamorous I still can't watch Catch Me With You Can without thinking about the Libyan bomb in that company's future.
Maybe it's because the explosion took place four days before Christmas. Maybe it's the 45 college students who lost their lives, along with others. The Price of Terror is the story of the families, and their lawyers, who went after the terrorists while a quisling US State Department and recalcitrant Federal Judiciary tried to stop them. The book starts with a brief, horrifying description of the bombing. Half an hour after taking off, 12 ounces of Semtex molded into a Toshiba cassette player exploded as PA cruised at 31, feet.
The explosion broke the plane apart: But the people who loved those passengers want to know how it felt at that very moment What exactly where they feeling?
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Cold, certainly; fifty-degree-below-zero cold, and darkness, and the mile-an-hour wind of their momentum, strong enough to strip the shirts off their backs And then that would have started to fall. It would have taken a surprisingly long time. A human body tossed into the air at 31, feet quickly reaches a velocity of around feet per second, or miles an hour, but as the density of the air increases at lower altitudes it actually slows, and hits the ground at around miles an hour. Those who were tossed out of the plane right after the explosion probably took about three minutes to fall.
Then there is the investigation - because the plane blew up over land, it was recovered, and the cause of the blast located. Finally, the book moves on to the trials. Maybe it was complacency or a false sense of security. The Families have never stopped fighting for justice and they should keep fighting. Aboard that flight was 35 college students from Syracuse University, there were families and couples going to New York City for Christmas and many going home for the holidays to be with their families, friends, and relatives.
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It was a trip that they would never make. They were robbed of going home and 11 people perished in Lockerbie, Scotland in their own homes. Life would never be the same for them or for us.
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Terrorism came to America and if we only paid attention sooner and listened earlier. One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. The bombing of Pan Am Flight occurred over a quarter century ago and it is still in the news. There is an unrelenting band of deniers who still maintain that the convicted killer, Megrahi, was an innocent dupe, and the Libyans were not responsible.
This is, of course, rubbish, and the book by Gerson and Adler is well worth reviewing to show the guilt of the Libyans in an act of state sponsored terrorism. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.
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