The website of The Tripoli Post (Libya's English-language newspaper) has an article on the payment recently made into the compensation fund set up after negotiations in August between the United States and Libya. The article reads in part:
'Libya has started making payments into a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the families of Libyans who were killed by American air strikes on Libya in 1986 and American victims of alleged terror attacks in the 1980s.
'The US State Department said Thursday that the US "received a substantial amount of money" without saying how much. The amount was deposited on Wednesday night.
'The Libyan acted to fulfill a compensation agreement that was signed earlier this year.
'The agreement calls for the creation of a $1.8 billion fund: $1.5 billion for those victims.
'Libya has sought donations from private businesses to help cover its share of the fund. (...)
'Libyan officials said in the past that by paying such high compensations they were buying peace. They have also insisted that Libya had nothing to do with the bombing of the 1988 PanAm airplane over Lockerbie, England [sic].
'Legal experts around the world including in the US and Britain said that the convicted Libyan in the Lockerbie bombing, Abdulbaset El-Megrahi, was innocent and that the Scottish court that sentenced him to life in prison did commit a miscarriage of justice.'
The full article can be read here.
That is the truth and only the truth!
ReplyDeleteThe rehablitation Libya's and its Official Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi is within sight, congratulation.
by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland