Sept 11 families ‘not helped by others’ suffering’

A NEW York woman who lost her nephew in the September 11 attacks revealed her opposition to the war in Iraq at a public meeting in Dublin yesterday.

Valerie Lucznikowska, a member of the S11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrow’s group, told the Liberty Hall meeting that the war should not be carried out in the name of her relative, Adam Arias, who died as he fled Manhattan’s Twin Towers.

Ms Lucznikowska, a 64-year-old public relations executive, is one of around 50 relatives of people who died in the September 2001 atrocities who have joined the anti-war group. “The 9/11 families cannot be helped by seeing other people’s families destroyed,” she said.