Bert Ammerman of New Jersey, whose brother Tommy was aboard Pan Am 103, said Sunday he was "pleased" at Megrahi's death.
Robert Monetti, president of the US Victims of Pan Am 103 support group, said he believes it will not be long before Libya accepts responsibility for the bombing.
Families of those who died when Pan Am 103 was brought down by a terrorist bomb hidden in a piece of checked luggage have pushed for such a requirement for years.
France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.
The story, that the prosecution had been forced to seek an adjournment because one of its star witnesses had cast doubt on where the bomb had been positioned on Pan Am 103, was roundly and convincingly denied by the Lord Advocate.
Pan Am flight 103 was en route from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's JFK carrying 259 people.
The international outcry over Scotland's release of the Libyan convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 is not letting up.
Pan AM flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie in southern Scotland in 1988, an attack for which Libya eventually took responsibility.
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Libyan government is to make payments to the families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988.
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew aboard in an attack that was later linked to Libya.
Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in which 270 people were killed.
Al Megrahi was convicted, in January this year, of mass murder over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, with the loss of 270 lives.
Libya accepted responsibility last year for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, and is to pay compensation to the families of the 270 victims.
The outcome of the trial has intensified demands on Libya to accept blame for the disaster, in which 259 people on Pan Am flight 103 died along with another 11 on the ground in Scotland.
In a statement, Cardinal O'Brien, the archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, described the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as an "act of unbelievable horror and gratuitous barbarity".
Four US senators are calling for an investigation into allegations that oil firm BP lobbied for the early freeing of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270 people.
And a Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, was the only witness to identify Megrahi as the man who he said bought several items of clothing which were later found wrapped around the bomb which destroyed Pan-Am Flight 103.
Its top public relations executive, Ray O'Rourke, served as principal crisis counselor to now-defunct Pan Am when Libya downed its Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all 270 on board.
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