Reg Empey: Why as the principal victims of IRA-Libya terror did the UK not secure compensation?
Why, as the principal victims of the IRA semtex-fuelled campaign of terror, did the UK government do nothing to resolve the compensation issue?
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Hide AdIn his evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee last year, Tony Blair’s former foreign secretary Jack Straw, when asked about compensation, replied that victims HAD received compensation.
Well we all know that some limited help was available to the bomb victims, but that was from British taxpayers and not from Libya where it should have come from.
The suspicion has always lurked that there was something in the background arising from the ‘deal in the tent’ when Tony met Gaddafi himself in the desert.
The response from the present Libyan representatives may be the tip of the iceberg.
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Hide AdLots of officials both in Tripoli and in London must know what went on.
Only when we know the details will we be able to answer the question as to why Her Majesty’s Government has done nothing for all these years.
Reg (Lord) Empey, London