Relatives Of Lockerbie Victims Set To Marry
TRENTON, N.J. (AP / WCBS 880) -- Two New Jersey natives united in tragedy are getting married.
Sonia Stratis and Chris Tedeschi will hold their rehearsal dinner Friday night, one year after the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 was released on humanitarian grounds from a Scottish prison.
Stratis lost her father, Elia, in the 1988 bombing over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Chris' father had married a Lockerbie widow and he grew up with her three children whose father died in the bombing that killed 259 onboard and 11 on the ground.
The 33-year-olds grew up in New Jersey but didn't meet until a memorial in 2008.
Other relatives of Lockerbie victims are planning to attend the wedding.
Meanwhile, New Jersey's two U.S. senators, Democrats Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, renewed calls for answers Friday about the circumstances of Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi's release.
LISTEN: WCBS 880's Levon Putney with comment from Menendez and Lautenberg
He's alive in Libya even though doctors had said he would likely die of prostate cancer in three months.
The senators have sent a new letter to the British, Scottish, Libyan and Qatari governments citing evidence of commercial pressures influencing his release.
Al-Megrahi was the only person jailed for the 1988 bombing above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed 259 people onboard and 11 on the ground.
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