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Coming within inches of running over a worker at the counter there. the crash sent bricks, glass and wood flying onto the shop. luckily the employee escaped with only a broken leg in that. as moammar gadhafi fights to hold onto power we're learning new details about his alleged ties to the 1988 lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. the dictator is being accused by the victims' families and former libyan officials of being the mastermind behind the plot to bring down pan am flight 103. michael isikoff has the latest in today's isikoff files. families are livid about this, right? >> yes t...

Details now from cnn's mary snow. >> reporter: this interview last week with libya's former justice minister is what's behind new calls to prosecute moammar gadhafi for the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103. 270 people were killed, most were americans. cnn obtained this video of to mustafa abdul jaleel, heard here in a translation telling a swedish newspaper that gadhafi was directly involved. >> the secret is that moammar ordered this. >> this is a fact or you think? >> this is a confirmed fact. >> to who? >> to his supporters, to the intelligence officers. >> reporter: jaleel didn't provide ...

Could descend into chaos. the stakes are high. >> clinton also says the obama administration will look into allegations that gadhafi may be personally responsible for ordering the deadly 1998 bombing of pan am flight 103. >> there have been statements made in the last days by what are now former members of the libyan government, fingering gadhafi, making it clear that the order came from the very top. i think we do need to move expeditiously. the united nations has also suspended libya from its human rights council. the country's controversial election to the body last may was strongly conde...

Terrorist bombing in 1988 to pan am flight 103. a former justice minister says he has a proof of. of the 270 victims, 189 of them were americans. joining me now by phone from new jersey is susan cohen. her daughter was one of those victims. susan, what was your reaction to this former libyan justice minister now saying it was gadhafi who was the one who ordered the bombing of pan am 103. >> i never questioned that. every knew it was gadhafi. he's the sole source of power in libya. you can't say some libyan agents went off on their own to blow up an american plane. i think there's been a long p...

Useful because there are still, according to the state department, americans in libya, and let's say there were humanitarian mission or something like that. it would be useful to have communications with the libyan government, even if you don't like that government, to give them directions and tell them what you are going to do. >> when i interviewed the ambassador aujali on friday, he said there's no doubt in his mind that gadhafi was responsible for the lockerbie tragedy, the downing of pan am flight 103, but what's going on in the state department right now? are they taking another look at ...