NORTH MYRTLE BEACH -- A North Myrtle Beach woman is keeping a close eye on events in Libya, as a popular uprising there threatens the regime of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi's former justice minister told a Swedish newspaper Wednesday that the Libyan leader personally ordered the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 that killed 270 people.
Rosemary Wolfe's stepdaughter was among those killed in the Flight 103 bombing. Miriam Wolfe was a 20-year-old drama and dance student in London who was making a return trip to the states when the plane was blown out of the sky.
Since the bombing, Rosemary Wolfe has been heavily involved in various organizations representing the families of Lockerbie victims. She told NewsChannel 15 Thursday she's closely watching coverage of the uprising in Libya and urging the public to press for more action against the Gadhafi's regime, which has responded to the revolt by a bloody crackdown, reportedly killing hundreds of protesters.
"We need a bigger push by both the US and the UN," Wolfe said. She wants President Barack Obama to push for the same international sanctions that were imposed after the Lockerbie bombing.
"This administration has not been strong enough in its response so far."
In Washington, Obama is called the violence in Libya, "outrageous ... and unacceptable." And he says he's dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva for international talks aimed at stopping it.
Obama says he's studying a "full range of options" to pressure Gadhafi's regime to halt attacks against Libyans.
