French Stand Up For Terrorists
French Stand Up For Terrorists
August 15, 2003
France has threatened to block a deal for Libya to pay $2.7 billion in
compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, demanding that
it receive payments from Libya for a 1989 airline explosion over
Niger.
The French threat surfaced as Libya and families of the Lockerbie
victims separately announced the agreement to pay families of 270
people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Scotland. The deal, in
which each victim's family would receive $10 million in a series of
installments, is contingent on an end to U.N. and U.S. sanctions
against Libya. The French threat, however, will block the payment of
the money.
The French cannot make any new demands on Libya since it's already
settled the case with Libya, which paid $35 million to the UTA French
Airlines victims in 1999. France and Libya announced in October that
they had agreed to a definitive resolution of the UTA affair, based on
French court decisions in 1999 that convicted six Libyans in absentia,
including a brother-in-law of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy and the
payment of compensation.
So the French once again are standing in the way of justice. Each
victim's family would receive $10 million in a series of payments for
their deaths incurred over the skies of Scotland in that Pan Am
flight. But the French, who sold out their bombing victims for far
less, want to use the Pan Am dead to shake more money out of Moammar.
Unreal.
Ken (NY)
Chairman,
Department Of Redundancy Department
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