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Lockerbie widow: Gadhafi death ends chapter

FLORAL PARK, NY, October 20, 2011---Gabriele Della Rippa

Photo credit: Photo by | FLORAL PARK, NY, October 20, 2011---Gabriele Della Rippa is shown inthis 1968 family handout photo. Della Rippa was among those killed in the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. (Handout Photo)

The Floral Park widow of a Lockerbie bombing victim wept Thursday after former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who ordered the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, had been killed by rebels.

"Last night, I had some kind of premonition," said Luisa Della Ripa, whose husband, Gabriele Della Ripa, died when a bomb exploded on Flight 103, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 people on the ground.

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