Gadaffi to pay compensation to IRA victims.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/2u3y5m5

Should this gesture from Gadaffi to pay up to £2 billion to the victims of the IRA now be welcomed?

Gordon Brown personally vetoed an attempt to force Colonel Muammar Gadaffi to compensate IRA bomb victims because it might have jeopardised British oil deals with Libya.

According to the Sunday Times, dated September 6, 2009

/// Brown said in a letter to Jason McCue, the victims’ lawyer, dated October 7, 2008: “The UK government does not consider it appropriate to enter into a bilateral discussion with Libya on this matter.” ///

[OrcadianOil]

Read the article and you'll find that this is a load of hearsay. There is not one quote from any Libyan source.

[bigfoot3000]

Does anyone know how much Gadaffi is worth?

[Zeuhl]

Swiss bank accounts are very private!

[bigfoot3000]

Lol, of course they are.

[sandyRoe]

Everybody living in NI throughout the troubles was a victim in one way or another. Who's going to pay me compensation for the stress of living in West Belfast when it was like a war zone?