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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Friday that Libya has paid the full 1.5 billion dollars to compensate victims of terrorism, clearing the last hurdle to a full normalization of ties with Washington.
Meanwhile, President George W. Bush, fulfilling his part of the compensation bargain sealed in August, signed an order Friday to restore Libya's immunity to legal action pending in US courts, US officials said.
The sum is to compensate US and other families for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, and for US families of a Berlin disco bombing that killed two Americans and hurt 50 others.
Originally posted by Ign0rant
Does this mean that we owe money to Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria since the world now wants terrorists to pay for their actions?
-Ign0ranT
Originally posted by Mekanic
Sounds like blackmail to me. How many other countries have had to pay the U.S. because a terrorist came out of their country?
Originally posted by Mekanic
Originally posted by Ign0rant
Does this mean that we owe money to Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria since the world now wants terrorists to pay for their actions?
-Ign0ranT
Iraq already has billions of our dollars, but yes, I believe that the U.S. would now owe Afghanistan, Syria, AND Pakistan.
In 1996, the United States and Iran reached "an agreement in full and final settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims" relating to the incident at the International Court of Justice.[5] As part of the settlement, the United States agreed to pay $61.8 million in compensation for the Iranians killed.
The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human life and in 1996 paid reparations to settle a suit brought in the International Court of Justice regarding the incident.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said his government is keen to expand cooperation with Russia beyond the military and political sphere into trade and commerce and invited Russian investment and business to his country.
Gaddafi, on a visit to Russia, Saturday met President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin separately and assured them that "the door to enhancing cooperation in civilian spheres is open to Russia."
The Libyan leader told Putin later he expected progress in bilateral ties would have "a positive effect on the international situation and the geopolitical balance of power."
Gaddafi, who has ruled the oil and gas-rich African state since 1969, last visited the Russian capital in 1985, before the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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