Khadaffi: Money CAN Buy You Happiness
THe Politburo Diktat the variety of responses in the media. The best one is the first one:
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin described the deal as "a success for the entire international community".
Perhaps it was because everybody got paid off back in September:
Britain drafted a Security Council resolution to end U.N. sanctions on Libya when Tripoli agreed last month to pay $2.7 billion to families of Lockerbie victims.
France, a veto-holding Security Council member, threatened to block the move unless Tripoli increased compensation for the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner which killed 170 people.
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Though Libya has never admitted responsibility for the 1989 UTA bombing, it has already paid $34 million to France after a Paris court convicted six Libyans in absentia for the killings.
France, a veto-holding Security Council member, threatened to block the move unless Tripoli increased compensation for the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner which killed 170 people.
(snip)
Though Libya has never admitted responsibility for the 1989 UTA bombing, it has already paid $34 million to France after a Paris court convicted six Libyans in absentia for the killings.
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