Dec. 21, 1998: Remembering Lockerbie

Monday marked the tenth anniversary of the fatal bombing of a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland that galvanized international law enforcement to deal with global terrorism in a more aggressive way.

But in the case of the Lockerbie bombing, CBS News Coorrespondent Lee Cowan reports that the families of the victims are still looking for justice.

At a time when most people are humming Christmas carols, a group of mourners in Arlington, Virginia, was taking quiet comfort in the distant toll of bells.

Their haunting call echoed through the national cemetery for two minutes. That is the length of time it took for Pan Am 103 to fall from the sky ten years ago in a bombing President Clinton called "deliberate murder."

On the green moors outside the small market town of Lockerbie, Soctland, the ghosts of one of the world's worst air disasters continue to roam.

A simple polished stone memorial catalogues the names of the dead. There are 270 of them, including 189 Americans.

Nearly three dozen of the dead were students from Syracuse University. Their names are now woven into a quilt, just as their lives have been woven into the terrible fabric of international violence.

"We have become part of the story of terrorism," says Douglas Unger of Syracuse University.

Special cells have been set aside in a Glasgow jail for the two Libyans accused of planting the bomb in a suitcase. But a trial could still be a long way off. In this case, politics are as big an obstacle to resolution as the passage of time.

Reported by Lee Cowan